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.
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.
Super Shannon shines for family on Ward 10
Our latest DAISY Award winner at our Children’s Hospital is Shannon O’Flanagan, a Staff Nurse from Ward 10. She was nominated by the family whose daughter had been diagnosed with a brain tumour and needed three emergency surgeries in ten days.
Shannon was described as ‘compassionate, friendly, kind and caring throughout’ the family’s long stay on Ward 10.
The heartfelt nomination tells of how: “She cared for our daughter with the utmost respect but also ensured that us as parents were looking after ourselves.
“She spoke to us with such kindness and always acknowledged the trauma we were going through with empathy.
“She would always ask if we had eaten, celebrate when we had been able to leave and function as normal humans – such small things to most but huge achievements to us.”
Heather Petts, our Associate Director of Nursing (Medicine), said: “Shannon’s nomination really demonstrated the care and compassion she showed to a family going through a really tough time with their daughter.
“The family recognised the empathy and thoughtfulness that Shannon showed about the whole families wellbeing. We are really proud of Shannon’s nomination and award.”
The final lines of the family’s nomination sum up why Shannon was such a worthy winner, it said: “Her overwhelming kindness will stick with me for an incredibly long time and it made a horrendous situation, slightly more bearable.”
Congratulations Shannon.
If you would like to nominate someone for a DAISY Award, visit our website for more information.
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