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.
Millie wins DAISY award for giving care at home
Millie Fage from the Complex Care Community team at the Children’s Hospital has won the prestigious international DAISY Award. Millie is a team leader who manages a core team of children in the community who require long-term ventilation via a tracheostomy.
One of Millie's patients had a planned decannulation of his tracheostomy, which was completed within his home instead of in hospital. Due to the patient's needs, completing the decannulation in hospital wasn't in the patient’s best interest and would ultimately delay his tracheostomy being removed.
Millie coordinated multi-disciplinary teams, liaised with the relevant Integrated Care Board and completed a meeting for his care team to ensure everyone was up to date with the plans for decannulation. The decannulation went successfully and for the first time in 12 years, the patient no longer has a tracheostomy.
The nomination said: “Millie has been so amazing through this whole process. We talked at great length about decan of our son’s tracheostomy — we have been with complex care for the past 12 years.
“She is so knowledgeable and has an aura about her; she's an amazing nurse and goes above and beyond. None of this would have been possible without you and your care and compassion for our son. Millie, you are an absolute asset to complex care.”
Millie was surprised with her award in a training session by Tammy Davies, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer and Heather Petts, Associate Director of Nursing (Medicine).
On her award win, Millie said: “Being able to facilitate a home decannulation took a team effort and it was such a privilege to lead the process. Doing our traditional in hospital decannulation was not in the patient's best interest.
“Family-centred care is at the forefront of all my practice, so this has been such a rewarding experience to be able to achieve this with them. I'm so grateful to be part of the fantastic team that helped make this happen.”
Congratulations Millie.
Nominate a nurse or a midwife for a DAISY award- nominations are always open.
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