We all know how ‘ bloomin amazing our nursing and midwifery colleagues are and now there’s a new way that patients and families, as well as colleagues, can recognise their work and care.
BWC has now launched the DAISY Awards, an international program that honours and celebrates the skilful and compassionate care nurses and midwives provide every day.
Anyone can make a nomination and every person nominated will be recognised with regular overall winners chosen and surprised with a special presentation for them and their colleagues.
Nominate here:
Nominations can be made via forms across our sites or by visiting the Trust’s website.
Every nominee will be recognised and we will announce a number of winners throughout the year.
Each winner will get a surprise presentation on their unit, a certificate and ‘Healer’s Touch’ statue, a DAISY pin and cinnamon rolls for them and their colleagues.
All winners are also posted on the Trust’s DAISY section of the website and have a page on the DAISY Foundation’s website.
The DAISY Award is funded by our Charity and is a recognition program to celebrate and recognise nurses and midwives, proportionally our largest professional group, by collecting nominations from patients, families, and co-workers. It is a way to thank nurses and midwives who go the extra mile and for the care and kindness they provide.
It is one part of our Trust-wide reward and recognition programme that recognises and celebrates all our colleagues through these awards, local divisional schemes, our monthly Star Awards and of course our annual BWC Spirit Awards programme.
How to nominate/criteria
You can easily nominate through our Trust website or through paper nomination forms available across all our sites. Simply fill in the form and pop it into one of the DAISY-branded nomination boxes.
We ask you to provide some simple details about the care you experienced and to describe a situation in which the nurse or midwife demonstrated compassionate care and how it impacted you. Please provide as much detail as possible!
Nominations will be reviewed by a committee of colleagues from across the Trust. When reviewing nominations, the committee will be looking at a number of criteria, they are:
Delivers compassionate patient-centred care
Above and beyond their role
Impact on you
Shares the Trust's values and upholds the standards of excellence
You - Putting the patient first, supporting their interests when planning or delivering care.
History
DAISY Awards were established by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura in 1999 in the United States. During his care, they deeply appreciated not only the immense clinical skill but also the enormous compassion shown to Pat and his family by his nurses. When Pat died, they felt compelled to say, “Thank you!” to nurses in a very personal way.
Claire wins DAISY Award for compassionate care
*Content warning: contains mention of miscarriage and pregnancy loss*
Congratulation to Claire Hollis - who's received the international DAISY Award for delivering outstanding care.
Working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist on our Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU), Claire helps provide urgent care for complications including diagnosis and care for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy and other conditions.
Claire was given the award after she was nominated by a family when she offered outstanding compassionate care during an incredibly difficult time following a miscarriage
which led to a cancer diagnosis.
The nomination said: “I had previously had two miscarriages which had to be dealt with surgery. That's where I'd met Claire at EPAU. She had a warm and genuine care about her which made me feel at ease.
“During my fourth pregnancy, I unfortunately miscarried too and needed surgery again. After surgery, tissue was sent to a lab to confirm if I'd had a molar pregnancy and it was confirmed I had.
“I remember going into hospital every few days to have blood taken whilst waiting for more results to come back and Claire always greeted me and asked how I was.
“Unfortunately, the molar pregnancy progressed to a very rare cancer. “It was Claire who provided me with information and care. It was Claire who held my hand whilst I cried, not understanding how I could potentially have cancer after losing the pregnancy. “It was Claire who sent off forms, phoned the specialist hospital in London. It was Claire who gave me courtesy calls to check in on me and update me.
“It was Claire who would check up on me during chemotherapy when I was hospitalised.“I have genuinely never met someone who has gone above and beyond. Within weeks of miscarrying, surgery, cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy, Claire was always there.
“I will forever be grateful for having such an amazing nurse by my side throughout the worst time of my life.” Claire was surprised while working with the award, where she was presented with the ‘Healer’s Touch’ statue, a DAISY pin and cinnamon rolls for her team. Congratulations Claire.
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