November 20, 2009
DAISY AWARDS RECOGNIZE CLINICAL SKILL
AND COMPASSIONATE CARE BY NURSES
LEAMINGTON, ON - Leamington District Memorial Hospital, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital and Windsor Regional Hospital will honor their nurses with a newly introduced International recognition called the Daisy Awards as follows:
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
10:00 a.m. - Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital
11:00 a.m. - Windsor Regional Hospital
Thursday, November 26, 2009
1:00 p.m. - Leamington District Memorial Hospital
The Daisy Award is an International program that awards and celebrates clinical skill and compassionate care provided by nurses. The three area hospitals jointly agreed to participate in this, the first of what will become a semi-annual event. Each hospital has selected two honorees (nurses) to be recognized.
Patients, visitors, nurses, physicians and staff could nominate a deserving nurse by completing a form and submitting. The nominee had to meet criteria that included patient centred focus; safe patient care; evidence based practice; collegiality; professionalism and advocacy.
The Daisy Foundation was established in 2000 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died at the age of 33 from complications of the auto-immune disease Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP). His family was awestruck by the care and compassion his nurses provided and established the Award in his memory. Daisy is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System.
Each Honoree will be recognized in a public ceremony at each hospital and receive a Daisy Award pin, a beautiful certificate and a hand-carved stone sculpture entitled ‘A Healer’s Touch’. Recipients will receive a cinnabon, symbolic of the rolls that were made available by the family to nurses on the unit.
“Nurses who truly practice the ‘art of nursing’ make the difference between healing, coping and despair on a daily basis. The Daisy Award is one way in which we can celebrate the “art of nursing” and those nurses who truly do make a difference in the lives of patients and their families,” stated Patricia Somers, Vice President, Operations and Chief Nursing Executive (CNE) at Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital.
“Nurses do go above and beyond every day and being able to recognize them in a special way, such as through the Daisy Award is rewarding and speaks to what nurses do for their patients each and every day” stated Karen McCullough, Vice President, Acute Care and Chief Nursing Executive (CNE).
“The science of nursing has progressed rapidly; the compassion that attracts nurses to the work remains the same. This award recognizes nurses who are role models in achieving a balance between the art and the science of nursing,” stated Roberta Jarecsni, Interim Vice President Patient Services and CNE; Leamington District Memorial Hospital.
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For further information please contact:
Sarah Padfield, Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Leamington District Memorial Hospital
519-326-2372 ext 4249 / spadfield@ldmh.org
Kim Spirou, Vice President, Communications
Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital
519-073-4343 / kspirou@hdgh.org
Ron Foster, Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications
Windsor Regional Hospital
519-995-2482 (cell) / 519-254-5577 ext 52003 / ron_foster@wrh.on.ca