Nominate a Nurse for The DAISY Award!
DAISY Award honorees personify UCLA Health's remarkable patient experience. These nurses consistently demonstrate excellence through their clinical expertise and extraordinary compassionate care, and they are recognized as outstanding role models in our nursing community.
Each DAISY Award Honoree will be recognized at a ceremony in their unit, clinic or department and will receive: a beautiful certificate and a hand-carved stone sculpture entitled A Healer's Touch. Additionally, everyone will celebrate with Cinnabon® cinnamon rolls - a favorite of Patrick's during his illness. The Barnes Family asks that whenever and wherever nurses smell that wonderful cinnamon aroma, they stop for a moment and think about how special they are.
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.
What is a DAISY Award?
The DAISY Award is a nationwide program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by registered nurses every day. UCLA Health is proud to be a DAISY Award Hospital Partner, recognizing our nurse with this special honor.
To find out more about the program, including the growing list of Hospital Partners, please go to www.DAISYfoundation.org.
How To Nominate a Special Nurse:
Patients, visitors, nurses, physicians, employees may nominate a deserving nurse by clicking "NEXT" below to complete this form.
