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 recognize 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:
D elivers compassionate patient patient-centred care
A bove and beyond their role
Impact on you
S hares the Trust's values and upholds the standards of excellence
Y ou - 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.
Nurse Rachel recognised for her hard work and determination supporting young people with pain management
A huge ‘congratulations’ to the latest winner of our coveted DAISY Award, Rachel Desai, a Nurse Consultant who supports young people with pain management at our Children’s Hospital.
She received a special nomination from a family she cared for and supported. They wanted to say ‘thank you’ and recognise the positive impact her unwavering commitment to providing tangible pain management methods had for their child, who is a cardiac patient.
It told of how Rachel took time to speak with their son to understand his situation, which made a huge difference.
The nomination said, “It's difficult to articulate the impact the appointment had on both my son and us as a family. He feels so much better just knowing there are tools in place to help him. Although there is still a journey ahead, it is like a weight has been lifted.
“He’s managing his way through the pain differently, trying various ways to cope. I think that’s making him feel like he has more autonomy and isn’t totally out of control of things.”
As is the case with all of our DAISY Award winners, Rachel was surprised with her certificate, winners’ pin badge, ‘Healer’s Touch’ statue and cinnamon rolls (shared with colleagues). Daljit Athwal, our Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer, Heather Petts, Associate Director of Nursing (Medicine) and Natalie Harford, Associate Director of Nursing (Surgery) stopped by to make the presentation.
Rachel said: “I was very surprised to receive this award.
“I set up the clinic to help young people and their families. The nomination was completely unexpected. I am very grateful to the patient’s family.”
Daljit said: “It was really exciting to present Rachel with this much-deserved award.
“I am absolutely inspired by her skills, knowledge and her compassion within the work she does. She is amazing in what she does.”
If you know someone who has made a difference to you as patient and/or family member please do nominate them for a DAISY Award, which is kindly supported by our Charity.
Doing so is easy. Simply head to our DAISY Award website pages and share details on why the person you’re nominating is so deserving.
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