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The Dream Team has the privilege of honoring one of our own nurses with the DAISY Award. The DAISY Award is an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skills and compassionate care given every day.
Sincerely,
The Dream Team
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An acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System, The DAISY Foundation was formed in November, 1999, by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died at age 33 of complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP). The nursing care Patrick received when hospitalized profoundly touched his family.
Read more about why they started The DAISY Foundation.
As Patrick’s family, we brainstormed what to do in his memory. We vividly recalled the skillful and compassionate care Patrick received from his nurses during his eight-week hospitalization. We wanted to say “thank you” to nurses everywhere by establishing a recognition program – The DAISY Award(R) For Extraordinary Nurses (The DAISY Award) – to honor the super-human work nurses do for patients and families every day.
In creating The DAISY Award, there were three elements we wanted to ensure our recognition program included:
DAISY is an evidence-based form of meaningful recognition: DAISY has been used as a proxy for meaningful recognition in research studies. DAISY has a 24-year history of success, which has provided insights into successful programs of nurse recognition as a form of meaningful recognition, DAISY can impact healthcare organizations in 3 areas: Contributes to a healthy work environment, Nurse Engagement. Patient and Family experience.
