The DAISY Award honors nurses who consistently demonstrate excellence through their clinical expertise and extraordinary, compassionate care. The DAISY Award recipient is any Baptist Health nurse who exemplifies the kind of nurse that patients and families, as well as our team members and colleagues, recognize as an outstanding role model.
What is the DAISY Award?
The DAISY Award is an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by nurses every day. The DAISY Foundation was established in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died of complications of an autoimmune disease. During Pat’s hospitalization, his family was awestruck by the care and compassion his nurses provided Pat and his family. The DAISY Award recognizes extraordinary nurses everywhere who make an enormous difference in the lives of so many people by the super-human work they do every day. Baptist Health is proud to be a DAISY Award Hospital Partner, recognizing our nurses with this special honor every quarter. Each DAISY Award Honoree is recognized at a public ceremony on his/her unit and receives a beautiful certificate, a DAISY Award pin and a hand-carved stone sculpture entitled “a Healer’s Touch.” To find out more about the program, go to DAISYfoundation.org.
Nominate a nurse for the DAISY Award (External Link)
To place your nomination electronically, scan QR code with your phone camera.
