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DAISY Award for Nurses

The MUSC DAISY (Diseases Attacking the Immune System) Award for Nurses is a monthly award and is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform every day. The foundation was formed in January 2000 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died of complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP).
 
All DAISY Award winners received an African Shona Tribe sculpture entitled, “A Healer’s Touch,” a framed certificate, and a DAISY Award pin. The DAISY Foundation also delivered cinnamon rolls to all the nurses in each winner’s unit.
 
MUSC is among 400 medical facilities honoring nurses with The DAISY Award. This is one initiative of the foundation whose overall goal is to help fight diseases of the immune system.




September honoree

JoAnne Naylor, ECCO
"JoAnne has served as the coordinator for MUSC’s ECCO (Essentials of Critical Care Orientation) Program since its inception years ago. This program, sponsored by the AACN, serves all newly hired MUSC critical care nurses as the foundation for the progression from novice to expert. JoAnne has seen this program from its infancy, through software upgrades, and many other challenges. Joanne has taken the ECCO program to a new level, the MUSC Simulation Lab. JoAnne has spent hours researching simulation training for critical care nurses. She also determined how we could write our own scenarios to use in the simulation lab. This is a very novel concept, not widely utilized across the country. She has put MUSC at the forefront of this arena. JoAnne collaborated with the Simulation Lab staff to train the critical care educators and RN III’s on the use of the mannequins and helped us gain the knowledge we need to lead students through scenarios. All of this training occurred over multiple days and required complex orchestration to occur during the roll out of Clin Doc, Admin Rx, and CPOE. JoAnne has outstanding clinical capabilities and touches lives at the bedside every day. By taking a risk and venturing into uncharted territories, JoAnne has given many critical care nurses the opportunity to learn in a dynamic, complex environment. Through her efforts, nurses are better equipped to be at the bedside, functioning to their highest potential, attacking diseases and caring for patients and their families."


  

Updated September 2009


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