The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses
Honoring the compassion and care bedside nurses provide their patients every day
What Is The DAISY Award?
The DAISY Award is a nationwide program that rewards and celebrates the
extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care of nurses every day.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New
Jersey are proud to be a DAISY Award Hospital Partners, recognizing one
of our nurses with this special honor every quarter.
Meet Our DAISY Award Winners
The DAISY Foundation was established in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died of complications of the auto-immune disease Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP) at the age of 33. (DAISY is an acronym for diseases attacking the immune system.) During Pat’s 8 week hospitalization, his family was awestruck by the care and compassion his nurses provided not only to Pat but to everyone in his family.
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 by the super-human work they do everyday.
Daisy award winning nurses consistently demonstrate excellence through their clinical expertise and extraordinary compassionate care, and they are recognized as outstanding role models in our nursing community.
Each DAISY Award Honoree receives a beautiful certificate, a DAISY Award pin, and a hand-carved stone sculpture entitled A Healer’s Touch. The nursing unit also celebrates with Cinnabon® 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.
