What is the DAISY Award?
The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses is a global program that honors and celebrates the exceptional, compassionate care provided by nurses every day. Recognizing outstanding nurses in over 4,650 healthcare facilities and nursing schools across all 50 states and 28 countries, the award highlights the vital role nurses play in patient care. We are proud to partner with the DAISY Foundation in acknowledging our remarkable nurses with this prestigious honor.
Each DAISY Award recipient will be celebrated in a ceremony on their unit and will receive a certificate, a DAISY Award pin, and a hand-carved stone sculpture titled "A Healer's Touch."
How to Nominate an Extraordinary Nurse
Patients, family members, healthcare staff, and volunteers can nominate a deserving nurse by submitting an online form or a paper nomination, which is available on each unit within the hospital.
The DAISY Foundation was established in 2000 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes, who died of complications of an autoimmune disease, idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura, at the age of 33. DAISY is an acronym for Disease Attacking the Immune System. During Patrick's eight-week hospitalization, his family was awestruck by the care and compassion his nurses provided to him and his family. One of the goals they set in creating a foundation in Patrick’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 every day.
What is the DAISY Award?
The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses is a global program that honors and celebrates the exceptional, compassionate care provided by nurses every day. Recognizing outstanding nurses in over 4,650 healthcare facilities and nursing schools across all 50 states and 28 countries, the award highlights the vital role nurses play in patient care. We are proud to partner with the DAISY Foundation in acknowledging our remarkable nurses with this prestigious honor.
Each DAISY Award recipient will be celebrated in a ceremony on their unit and will receive a certificate, a DAISY Award pin, and a hand-carved stone sculpture titled "A Healer's Touch."
How to Nominate an Extraordinary Nurse
Patients, family members, healthcare staff, and volunteers can nominate a deserving nurse by submitting an online form or a paper nomination, which is available on each unit within the hospital.
The DAISY Foundation was established in 2000 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes, who died of complications of an autoimmune disease, idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura, at the age of 33. DAISY is an acronym for Disease Attacking the Immune System. During Patrick's eight-week hospitalization, his family was awestruck by the care and compassion his nurses provided to him and his family. One of the goals they set in creating a foundation in Patrick’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 every day.