DAISY Award
What is the DAISY Award?
The DAISY Award is a nationwide program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by nurses every day. OHSU is proud to be a DAISY Award Hospital Partner, recognizing nurses with this special honor every quarter.
To find out more about the program, including the growing list of Hospital Partners, please go to www.DaisyFoundation.org.
Each DAISY Award honoree is recognized at a ceremony in their unit and receives a beautiful certificate, a DAISY Award pin and a hand-carved stone sculpture titled "A Healer's Touch." In addition, everyone on the unit celebrates with Cinnabon cinnamon rolls, a favorite of DAISY Award founder Patrick Barnes during an illness. The Barnes family asks that whenever and wherever nurses smell that cinnamon aroma, they stop for a moment and think about how special they are.
Nominate a nurse for a DAISY Award
This nurse's compassion exemplifies the kind of care to patients and their families that OHSU staff members are proud to deliver.
This nurse consistently meets the following criteria:
- Demonstrates compassion, understanding and caring to patients and families
- Demonstrates excellence in the delivery of individualized patient care
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About the Daisy Foundation
The DAISY Foundation was established in 2000 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died of complications of the autoimmune disease Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura at age 33. DAISY is an acronym for diseases attacking the immune system.
During Pat's eight-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 every day.