Queen Silvia invited Hanna from Hattula and Floro from Oulu to the King’s Palace – We were already warned about this etiquette mistake in the invitation – 2024-09-21 14:30:36

Queen Silvia once again presented the annual, prestigious care awards. AOP

From Oulu Floro Cubelo and Hattulain Hanna Jokinen headed to Stockholm’s Royal Palace last week at the invitation of Queen Silvia.

Queen Silvia distributes annually Queen Silvia Nursing Award 2024 – award. The nursing award is given to creative and problem-solving ideas. Nursing lecturer Floro Cubelo and home nurse Hanna Jokinen are among the awardees this year. The winners will receive, among other things, a cash prize of 6,000 euros and customized learning opportunities.

Cubelo and Jokinen found out about their recognition already at the end of last year, and the year as Queen Silvia Nursing Award ambassadors culminated in the award ceremony organized at the Royal Palace in Stockholm.

– It was a very memorable experience. I could never have imagined that I would get there, Cubelo tells Iltalehte.

The encounter with the queen left Cubelo with a strong and vivid memory.

– The queen was really positive, a wonderful lady, he describes.

Cubelo was awarded the prize for his idea of ​​the Memory Pass. It is a form to be filled out daily, which the memory sufferer fills in together with the caregiver. In the memory pass, the client’s psychological, physical and social well-being is scored.

– An evaluation tool would make the nurse’s job easier, since everything does not have to be written down. It is a clear and short assessment, says Cubelo.

“The best profession in the world”

Hanna Jokinen is happy that the competition and the issue are taken seriously. It was also seen as a great setting at the event organized in the Royal Palace.

– I appreciate Queen Silvia’s enormous dedication to the status of people with dementia. In many speeches, he was praised for bringing dementia and humanity to the fore. He is 80 years old himself and seems to be able to cope. A very down-to-earth person, Jokinen describes.

The awardees invited to Stockholm received detailed instructions before the event, starting with how to dress.

– For example, it said that when the queen arrives, you get up, you don’t ask for selfies, and you don’t pass in front of her seat. They were perfectly reasonable instructions to respect the queen. It was safer to go there, that you can’t go around unintentionally, Jokinen laughs.

Dress etiquette was business. Jokinen knew that in previous years, the occasion had traditionally been dressed a notch more festively.

The award was brought to Jokis by his idea of ​​a personnel pool that tackles the human resources challenges, which aims for permanence and a better replacement arrangement.

– It has the effect of improving the quality of life and the continuity of treatment, which is an important part of the treatment of memory patients, says Jokinen.

Guessing, Jokinen and Cubelo have not ended up in the care industry because of possible visits to the Royal Palace, fame and honor.

Cubelo, who moved to Finland 11 years ago from the Philippines, already knew when he was in high school that he wanted to be a nurse.

– I wanted to help. My father has died of cancer. I was interested in why people get sick – also from the point of view of treatment, says Cubelo.

Someone says that the profession has come to him as a blood inheritance. Mother, cousin and aunts are also in the business.

– I’m a person close to people. It is a great duty to work in the best profession in the world. The work is immediate, person to person. It is terribly privileged to be close to another when the other is wounded, says Jokinen.