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Is it wrong to give a patient a Daisy award nomination form after he's told me what a great job I'm doing?

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Specializes in Peds, School Nurse, clinical instructor.

Kind of....I think he might feel like you were putting him on the spot.

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Such awards have been perverted through the political machinations found in acute care. They mean close to nothing to me and so I certainly wouldn't recruit patients who might be interested in helping me win one. I try to provide the best care I can to all patients and how they choose to receive it is on them.

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Specializes in PACU, pre/postoperative, ortho.
Kind of....I think he might feel like you were putting him on the spot.

I agree. We had a nurse that started asking pts to give her a good mention when the pt received their discharge callback. Really tacky. A pt mentioned how they had been asked to be sure to give the RN's name & that nurse got called out on it in huddle by the manager.

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I agree. We had a nurse that started asking pts to give her a good mention when the pt received their discharge callback. Really tacky. A pt mentioned how they had been asked to be sure to give the RN's name & that nurse got called out on it in huddle by the manager.

Well, it's all really tacky. Soliciting customer feedback is one thing; basing every other thing on it (including judgment of employees other than those who are truly outliers) is empty-headed.

Calling someone out during huddle for trying to play these exceedingly tacky games is...tactless and beyond mean-spirited.

What a joke. All of it. But, once again, when you're the one in control, bear in mind you will get mostly what you yourself asked for.

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Yes, it's wrong. We didn't even have that Daisy crap and I'm glad. I care for people because it feels right. The higher ups can shove the recognition and the daisy.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
On 12/20/2018 at 3:09 AM, Meredithhg said:

Is it wrong to give a patient a Daisy award nomination form after he's told me what a great job I'm doing?

It sounds really tacky to me.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

@RubyVee - I get that its tacky but at a hospital where I worked, the staff nurses received a monetary reward for their Daisy Awards.

And I to agree it was tacky of the hospital to hold this out like a carrot for the already hard-working staff nurses.

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

The Daisy award was created by the family of a terminally ill patient, who wanted to recognize all nurses who go above and beyond. I think that for anyone to do anything to disrespect that is beyond tacky.

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Specializes in Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative.

if a patient gives me a compliment I would say something along the lines of "feel free to tell my managers"

Would I give them out one of those things, nope.

Its kind of tacky IMO

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On ‎1‎/‎15‎/‎2019 at 8:58 AM, Tenebrae said:

if a patient gives me a compliment I would say something along the lines of "feel free to tell my managers"

Would I give them out one of those things, nope.

Its kind of tacky IMO

Thanks for mentioning this approach.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Pediatric Float, PICU, NICU.

I've never solicited Daisy nominations but know of several nurses who would pass the forms out to their patient/families like it was candy.

I worked at a facility where part of our admission/welcome packet included Daisy nomination forms. We explained it during the admit process along with everything else in the welcome packet such as how to order food, etc so it made it seem less of a big deal but still informed the parents of what it was.

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