~ An Exceptional Daisy ~
Dedicated to
RN Dixie Turner
who recently received the coveted "Daisy Award" for her humaneness, kindness, dedication and professionalism, a large part of which was patching me up in an Emergency Room on October 23, 2010. The DAISY Award is a nation-wide program that rewards excellence in nursing. It was created to recognize the clinical skills, extraordinary compassion and care exhibited by nurses every day. DAISY Nurses have assessment skills so acute that they spot the tiny changes in a patient's symptoms or behavior that monitors cannot detect, often leading to life-saving action. DAISY Nurses are on full-time duty, they are nurses in supermarkets, in restaurants at dinner with their families, on airplanes - intervening and caring for total strangers who are in trouble.
You have not lived a perfect day, even though you earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
~ Ruth Smeltzer ~
Uploaded on February 03, 2011