Edison State to Recognize Nursing Faculty, Nursing Students With DAISY Award®

Edison State Community College will soon honor nursing faculty and nursing students with The DAISY Award® for Extraordinary Nurse Educators and The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Students. The awards are part of The DAISY Foundation’s mission to express gratitude to nurses with programs that recognize them for the extraordinary, compassionate, and skillful care they provide patients and families.

The DAISY Foundation expanded its flagship brand, The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, to academic institutions to recognize the faculty who inspire compassionate care in their students and the students who demonstrate it during their education.

The nursing program is challenging, overwhelming, and rewarding. It requires excellent time management skills, sacrifice, and commitment. Students acquire—and must master—skills that will impact the life and health of others. 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.

Yet they don’t. Students with a true calling to nursing never lose sight of the fact that they’re treating a human being who needs all the sensitivity and compassion they can bring to them while they’re at the height of emotion and at their most vulnerable. The DAISY Foundation hopes this program will inspire and motivate students to provide the best clinical skill possible and to impact patients and families with human spirit and kindness.

“We honor faculty who inspire nurses to care like Patrick’s nurses cared for him and for our family. Recognizing and celebrating nursing students for the above-and-beyond care and compassion they show to patients and their families will be a strong reminder that nursing is not all about tasks and technology,” said Bonnie Barnes, CEO and Co-Founder of The DAISY Foundation.

Colleagues, peers, patients, families, or alumni may nominate nursing faculty and nursing students. A committee at Edison State will choose recipients to receive The DAISY Award, which the College will present at the end of each fall and spring semester for students and at the end of each spring semester for faculty. Each honoree receives a certificate, a DAISY Award pin, and a beautiful and meaningful sculpture called “A Healer’s Touch,” hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Zimbabwe.

“Edison State’s nursing students are committed to providing compassionate nursing care to our community,” said Leah Wells, Director of Associate Degree in Nursing. “With The DAISY Award program, we can now acknowledge honorees and recipients with this prestigious award. Once you have been honored with The DAISY Award, you are always a DAISY honoree and on the spotlight page of The DAISY Award website. Honorees are eligible for reduced tuition at Chamberlain University, a reduced rate for obtaining certain nursing certifications, scholarships for continuing education, discounted access to StressPal, and discounted membership to professional organizations in nursing.”

Learn more about the DAISY Award or nominate an outstanding Edison State nursing faculty or nursing student at www.edisonohio.edu/daisy-award.

About The DAISY Foundation 

The DAISY Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, established in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, by members of his family. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), a little known but not uncommon auto-immune disease. (DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System.) The care Patrick and his family received from Nurses while he was ill inspired the creation of The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, an evidenced-based means of providing Nurse recognition and thanking Nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families.

In addition to The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurse Educators and The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Students, the Foundation expresses gratitude to the nursing profession internationally in thousands of healthcare facilities and schools of nursing globally with various recognition programs for nurses wherever they practice, in whatever role they serve, and throughout their careers. More information is available at www.DAISYfoundation.org.