AN Nursing Award - We Need Your Input

BSNbeauty, BSN, RN · Jul 15, 2014

At my job nurses are often awarded with the daisy award. Here is the link below:

We also reward for: compassionate nurses, nurse innovators, and nurse leadership.

Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but I hope it helps.

tokmom, BSN, RN · Jul 15, 2014

I know of the Daisy and AMSN has the Prism award, which goes to a department. Individual is the Daisy, as previously noted by the other poster.

I do believe nurses should be recognized for the difference they make in the profession or place of employment. Those that give time doing committee work and or mentoring.

Columnist · Jul 15, 2014

At my job nurses are often awarded with the daisy award. Here is the link below:
DAISY Award â€” DAISY Foundation
We also reward for: compassionate nurses, nurse innovators, and nurse leadership.
Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but I hope it helps.

I have heard of the Daisy Award. Thanks for the link.

Do you know what the criteria is for the second set of awards you mentioned.....the ones from your place of work?

This information is exactly what we're looking for! Thanks.

Columnist · Jul 15, 2014

I know of the Daisy and AMSN has the Prism award, which goes to a department. Individual is the Daisy, as previously noted by the other poster.
I do believe nurses should be recognized for the difference they make in the profession or place of employment. Those that give time doing committee work and or mentoring.

I totally agree....nurses should be recognized for going above and beyond in their contributions!

BSNbeauty, BSN, RN · Jul 15, 2014

I have heard of the Daisy Award. Thanks for the link.
Do you know what the criteria is for the second set of awards you mentioned.....the ones from your place of work?
This information is exactly what we're looking for! Thanks.

For the compassionate nurse award, the judges are looking for nurses that have gone far and beyond to show compassion towards patients. I was nominated last year, but another nurse won. She took the time to pamper and bath a homeless man that was about to go into cath lab for a procedure. He happened to be a frequent flyer in the ED so everyone knew him. She bathed him, shaved his beard, clipped his toe nails, after she was done the nurses didn't even recognize him. She won the award for that.

The nurse innovative award goes out to nurses who are always thinking of ways to improve patient care and the work flow of the unit.

The nurse leadership award goes out to nurses who are great leaders on the unit. A nurse that won that year, was a charge nurse who was recognized for always running the unit smoothly no matter how chaotic it was.

Columnist · Jul 15, 2014

Thanks for that additional information, prnqday!

madwife2002, BSN, RN · Jul 17, 2014

In my company there is always some sort of award system going on

They are very generous

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Aug 8, 2014

Most of the nursing awards I'm aware of here are rather elitist. The people who are nominated are generally part of the "in crowd" of the group making the awards (CARNA). By that I mean people who have sat on their committees, have made presentations at their meetings, have accessed financial aid for research or higher learning (think NP or PhD) and the vast majority of them have little or nothing to do with hands-on patient care. Winners almost exclusively have some ongoing relationship with the group. Last year my unit nominated one of our nurses for the award for clinical excellence. The letters in support of her nomination were eloquent and detailed. The care she provides to PICU patients is as good as it gets and she goes the extra mile every day. She's also an excellent mentor and teacher. She had no involvement with the group itself other than a legally-required membership. She didn't win. Someone who sat on a committee years ago who works in a community setting with adolescent psych patients and was nominated by someone in the CARNA sphere of influence did. It's like a good-ol'-boys network.

I would like to see AN create awards that recognize excellence in mentoring relationships (formal or informal), excellence in provision of direct care, excellence in educating new nurses (as faculty or as preceptor) and excellence in administration as applied to maintaining units with low turnover, high morale, collaborative practice and high-quality care. I'd like to see the nominations and votes come from their peers, not from some self-serving group.

caliotter3 · Aug 8, 2014

One important aspect that I believe should be taken into consideration should be privacy of any AN member chosen. Most AN members try to maintain at least some semblance of personal privacy on the site and would be distressed should winning an award potentially expose them any more than necessary. Even if you limit the naming of an award winner to their screen name, if you delve too deeply into their background bio, it will be easier to identify them.