The DAISY® Award for Extraordinary Nursing Students
Nursing School is….challenging, overwhelming, and rewarding. It requires excellent time management skills, sacrifice, and commitment. Students are acquiring skills that will impact the life and health of others; mastery is all you will accept. Nursing school is competitive. The pressures associated with class load, clinicals, exams, and job availability can make it easy for students to lose sight of the art of caring while learning the science of nursing.
And yet they don't. Students with a true calling to nursing never lose sight of the fact that they are treating a human being who needs all the sensitivity and compassion they can bring to them while they are at the height of emotion and most vulnerable.
The DAISY® Award for Extraordinary Nursing Students was created to recognize and celebrate nursing students for the above-and-beyond care and compassion shown to patients and their families.Want to say thank you to your nurse? Share your story!
The DAISY® (Diseases Attacking the Immune System) Award is an international recognition program that honors and celebrates the skillful, compassionate care nurses provide every day. The DAISY® Foundation was established by the family of J. Patrick Barnes after he died from complications of the autoimmune disease ITP in 1999. During his hospitalization, the family deeply appreciated the care and compassion shown to Patrick and to his entire family. When he died, they felt compelled to say “thank you” to nurses in a very public way. To learn more, visit DAISYFoundation.org.
Please say thank you by sharing your story of how a nurse made a difference you will never forget!
