The DAISY Award For Nurses Exemplifying Compassionate Care
DAISY Award honorees personify Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota’s remarkable patient experiences. These nurses consistently demonstrate excellence through their extraordinary compassionate care and clinical expertise, and they are recognized as outstanding role models in our nursing community.
What is The DAISY Award?
The DAISY Award is a nationwide program that rewards and celebrates the compassionate care and extraordinary clinical skill given by nurses’ everyday. Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota is proud to be a DAISY Award Hospital Partner, recognizing three of our nurses with this special honor every quarter.
How To Nominate An Extraordinary Nurse
Patients, visitors, nurses, physicians, and employees may nominate a deserving nurse by completing the DAISY Award Nomination form. The Professional Development Council will review nominations and choose award winners quarterly.
DAISY Award Nomination Form
DAISY Award Criteria
DAISY Award recipients exemplify the kind of nurse that our patients, their families, and our staff recognize as an outstanding role model. She/he consistently meets the following criteria:
- Compassionate care in alignment with Children’s nursing values
- Excellence
- Innovation
- Stewardship
- Integrity
- Demonstrates partnerships of mutual respect, caring, and collaboration among families and colleagues as exemplified by Children’s Service Standards
- Provides care that is family-centered, holistic, developmentally appropriate, and culturally sensitive to create an extraordinary experience
The DAISY Award Honoree
Each DAISY Award Honoree will be recognized at a public ceremony in her/his patient care area and will receive
- a beautiful certificate
- a DAISY Award pin
- a hand-carved stone sculpture entitled A Healer’s Touch.
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Additionally, every one in the unit will celebrate with Cinnabon® cinnamon rolls – a favorite of Patrick’s during his illness.
About The DAISY Foundation
The DAISY Foundation was established in 2000 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died of complications of the auto-immune disease Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP) at the age of 33. (DAISY is an acronym for diseases attacking the immune system.) During Pat’s 8 week hospitalization, his family was awestruck by the care and compassion his nurses provided not only to Pat but to everyone in his family. So one of the goals they set in creating a Foundation in Pat’s memory was to recognize extraordinary nurses everywhere who make an enormous difference in the lives of so many people by the super-human work they do everyday.
To find out more about the program, including the growing list of Hospital Partners, please go to www.daisyfoundation.org.
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