Abstract

The DAISY® Award for Extraordinary Nurses was created in 1999 out of grief for the loss of Patrick Barnes to recognize nurses for their compassionate care. The program now honors exceptional nurses from around the world. This is something we never imagined when we stood at Patrick's bedside while a nurse whose name we don't recall, but whose touch we'll never forget, turned off his ventilator and he died of complications of the autoimmune disease idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura on November 6, 1999. His passing concluded the worst 8 weeks of our lives spent with him in two hospitals whose physicians and nurses fought to help him stop producing antibodies that were destroying his platelets and making him bleed internally.

Author Details

Bonnie Barnes, FAAN; Mike Barnes, FAAN; Christine Pabico, PhD, RN, NE-BC, FAAN

Sigma Membership

Delta

Lead Author Affiliation

The DAISY Foundation, Anacortes, Washington, USA,American Nurses Credentialing Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Type

Article

Format Type

Text-based Document

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Keywords:

The DAISY Award, Meaningful Recognition, Nurse Managers

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

Version

Publisher's Version

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Review Type

External Review: Previously Published Material

Acquisition

Indexed from External Source (Permission Granted by Copyright Holder)

Date of Issue

2021-10-01

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