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The DAISY Award For Nurses Exemplifying Compassionate Care
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 every day. Children’s is proud to be a DAISY Award Hospital Partner, recognizing one of our nurses with this special honor every month. 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 reviews nominations and selects award winners. 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:
The DAISY Award Honoree Each DAISY Award Honoree will be recognized at a public ceremony in her/his patient care area and will receive:
Additionally, staff 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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