DAISY Award Nominations
The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses at North Okaloosa Medical Center.
Honor 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 given by nurses every day. North Okaloosa Medical Center is proud to be a DAISY Award hospital partner, recognizing one of our nurses with this special honor every quarter.
About The DAISY Foundation
The DAISY Foundation was established in 2000 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 eight week hospitalization, his family was awestruck by the care and compassion his nurses provided not only to Pat, but to everyone in his family. So 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 every day.
To find out more about the program, including the growing list of hospital partners, please go to www.DAISYfoundation.org.
How To Nominate An Extraordinary Nurse
Patients, visitors, nurses, physicians or employees may nominate a deserving nurse by filling out this form and placing it in box marked "Daisy Award" located in the hospital administration office, or emailing the form.
Daisy Award Nomination Criteria
Qualifications/ Eligibility
- Any registered nurse who has been employed by North Okaloosa Medical Center for the past 6 months and currently function in a clinical setting.
- Obtains an excellent performance evaluation by nurse manager/supervisor.
The Daisy criterion incorporates the IOM six aims of safety, patient-centeredness, effectiveness, efficiency, timeliness, and equity. These aims have been embraced by North Okaloosa Medical Center to ensure the best care possible.
Must exemplify at least one of the following criteria:
- Demonstrates the importance of communication in the delivery of quality and safe patient care as evident by working in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team in providing quality safe patient care.
- Demonstrates commitment to the development and implementation of organizational goals, priorities and strategies as evident by committee, council or initiative involvement.
- Demonstrates excellence in the delivery of individualized patient care.
- Delivers quality and safe patient care guided by policies, procedures and standards.
- Implements current evidence based practice by developing policy, educational material for patients and families and/or co-workers.
- Promotes, designs, develops and implements patient safety and quality initiatives or programs that increase safety and quality care, such as reduction in nosocomial wounds, falls, failure to rescue and/or maintaining 95% or higher compliance in core measures.
- Initiates or participates in research with outcomes related to patient safety and quality.
- Promotes safety and quality patient care by contributing to committees at the local, state and/or national level.