The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses

The DAISY Award honorees personify Northeast Georgia Health System’s remarkable patient experience. These nurses consistently demonstrate excellence through their clinical expertise and extraordinary compassionate care. They are recognized as outstanding role models in our nursing community.

Criteria & Recognition

Nominees of the DAISY Award make a difference in the lives of patients and families by exemplifying the Mission, Vision and Core Values of NGHS.

Each DAISY Award Honoree will be recognized at a public ceremony in her/his unit and will receive: a beautiful certificate, a DAISY Award pin, and a hand-carved stone sculpture entitled A Healer’s Touch.

Additionally, everyone in the unit will celebrate with cinnamon rolls – a favorite of Patrick’s during his illness. The Barnes Family asks that whenever and wherever nurses smell that wonderful cinnamon aroma, they stop for a moment and think about how special they are.

The DAISY Foundation recognizes that while an idea to achieve better patient and family outcomes may start with one individual, it often takes an entire team to implement successfully. The DAISY Team Award is designed to honor collaboration by two or more people, led by a nurse, who identify and meet patient and/or patient family needs by going above and beyond the traditional role of nursing.

Criteria & Recognition

Nominees of The DAISY Team Award make a difference in the lives of patients and families by exemplifying the Mission, Vision and Core Values of NGHS.

Nominees must also meet the following criteria:

• Teams must be led by a nurse or group of nurses
• Teams must be comprised of 2 or more individuals
• Team members are role models of collaboration and teamwork who make a difference in the lives of patient, families, employees, and the community
• The Team’s project should be described in detail, including outcomes

Each honoree of The DAISY Team Award will be recognized at a public ceremony and will receive a beautiful certificate and a DAISY Award pin.

Some examples of extraordinary collaborations that may be honored with The Daisy Team Award include:

• A “Prom” organized for a patient who is unable to go to his/her own
• An ED team dealing with multiple accident victims
• A wedding for a patient who is unable to attend her/his own outside of the healthcare facility
• A fund to provide haircults to patients who will lose their hair during treatment, then donating the hair to a charitable organization who can put the hair to good use
• A process for creating mementos of patients to be given to family members

The DAISY Nurse Leader Award honorees personify Northeast Georgia Health System’s remarkable patient experience. These nurses consistently demonstrate excellence through their clinical expertise and extraordinary compassionate care. They are recognized as outstanding role models in our nursing community.

As the healthcare landscape becomes more complex with increasing demands on nurse leaders, those who create an environment of compassion and recognition for others strongly deserve to be recognized themselves. With recognition, they may be held up as models of outstanding nursing leadership.

Despite working under tremendous pressure, nurses are inspired to do their very best by nurse leaders who role-model caring behaviors. These leaders provide a setting where compassion is valued and staff, in turn, treat patients and their families with deep humanity.

The DAISY Nurse Leader Award recognizes directors, nurse managers, assistant nurse managers, and nurse educators who create an environment where compassionate care thrives.

Criteria & Recognition

Nominees of The DAISY Nurse Leader Award make a difference in the lives of patients and families by exemplifying the Mission, Vision and Core Values of NGHS.

Nominees must also meet the following criteria:

• Role models compasssion and exemplary practice
• Role models behavior perceieved as extraordinary
• Creates an environment that fosters care and compassion
• Creates an environment where attributes of trust, compassion, mutual respect, continued professional development, and ethical behaviors are modeled and supported
• Motivates staff with a shared vision and enthusiasm to achieve better outcomes for themselves and for their patients
• Mentors staff
• Accessible, available, and responsive to the needs of others, encouraging critical thinking and problem solving for individuals and with the context of teams
• Promotes and enhances the image of nursing within the organization, the community, and the profession

Each Daisy Nurse Leader Award honoree will be recognized at a public ceremony and will receive a beautiful certificate and a DAISY Award pin.