The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses at Jersey City Medical Center
Honor the compassion and care bedside nurses provide their patients everyday
DAISY Award honorees personify Jersey City Medical Center’s remarkable
patient experience. These nurses consistently demonstrate excellence through
their clinical expertise and extraordinary compassionate care, and they
are recognized as outstanding role models in our nursing community.
About The DAISY Foundation
The DAISY Foundation was established in 2000 by the family of J. Patrick
Barnes who died of complications of the auto-immune
disease Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP) at the age of 33. (DAISY
is an acronym for diseases attacking the immune system.) During Pat’s
8 week hospitalization, his family was awestruck by the care and compassion
his nurses provided not only to Pat but to everyone in his family. So
one of the goals they set in creating a Foundation in Pat’s memory
was to recognize extraordinary nurses everywhere who make an enormous
difference in the lives of so many people by the super-human work they
do everyday.
What is The DAISY Award?
The DAISY Award is a nationwide program that rewards and celebrates the
extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by nurses everyday.
Jersey City Medical Center is proud to be a DAISY Award Hospital Partner,
recognizing one of our nurses with this special honor every month or quarter.
To find out more about the program, including the growing list of Hospital
Partners, please go to
www.DAISYfoundation.org.
Meet Our Recent DAISY Award Winners »
How To Nominate An Extraordinary Nurse
Patients, visitors, nurses, physicians, employees may nominate a deserving nurse by
filling out this form and placing it in box marked “Daisy Award” located at the
main & second floor lobbies, or emailing this to
Claudia.Garzon-Rivera@rwjbh.org.
Daisy Award Nomination Criteria
Qualifications/ Eligibility
- Any Registered Nurse who has been employed by Liberty Health for the past
6 months and currently function in a clinical setting.
- Obtains an excellent performance evaluation by nurse manager/supervisor.
The daisy criterion incorporates the IOM six aims of safety, patient-centeredness,
effectiveness, efficiency, timeliness, and equity. These aims have been
embraced by Jersey City Medical Center to ensure the best care possible.
Must exemplify at least one of the following criteria:
Demonstrates the importance of communication in the delivery of quality
and safe patient care as evident by working in conjunction with the multidisciplinary
team in providing quality safe patient care.
Demonstrates commitment to the development and implementation of organizational
goals, priorities, and strategies as evident by committee, council or
initiative involvement.
Demonstrates excellence in the delivery of individualized patient care.
Delivers quality and safe patient care guided by policies, procedures,
and standards.
Implements current evidence based practice by developing policy, educational
material for patients and families, and/or co-workers.
Promotes, designs, develops, and implements patient safety and quality
initiatives or programs that increase safety and quality care, such as
reduction in nosocomial wounds, falls, failure to rescue and/or maintaining
95% or higher compliance in core measures.
Initiates or participates in research with outcomes related to patient
safety and quality.
Promotes safety and quality patient care by contributing to committees
at the local, state, and or national level.
Criteria and qualification will be validated by the Quality & Safety
Council. Winner will be voted upon by Quality & Safety Council.
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