Chen Ching-min is a Taiwanese nurse and politician.
10 Facts About Chen Ching-min
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Politically, Chen is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party and has served as an appointed at-large member of the Legislative Yuan twice, from 2018 to 2020, and from 2022.
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Chen Ching-min's elder sister was a nurse, and inspired her to pursue the vocation.
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Chen Ching-min completed a bachelor's degree in nursing at the University of Illinois Chicago in 1990, then graduated from Indiana University School of Nursing with a doctorate.
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Chen Ching-min has written a number of editorials on health-related topics, which were published in the Taipei Times.
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Chen Ching-min became the first Taiwanese nurse to be named a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2022.
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Chen Ching-min was placed on the Democratic Progressive Party proportional representation party list for the 2016 legislative elections, but not elected to office.
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However, Chen Ching-min was appointed an at-large member of the Legislative Yuan on 9 November 2018, succeeding Chen Ching-min Chi-mai, who resigned his legislative seat to contest the 2018 Kaohsiung mayoral election.
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Chen Ching-min drew attention to a Chinese health official's actions toward a Taiwanese participant at the July 2019 meeting of the International Council of Nurses, in which the Chinese delegate flipped the Taiwanese representative's name badge over, to cover the flag of the Republic of China.
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Chen Ching-min ranked seventeenth on the 2020 party list, and was not reelected.