Registered nurses Margie Hensley and Heather Sebastiani have been named recent recipients of the hospital’s DAISY Awards.
The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses is a national program that honors the compassionate care and clinical excellence. Franciscan St. Francis localized the program in 2010 to recognize its nurses for their achievements.
Hensley, who works in the the adult inpatient rehabilitation unit, was nominated for work with a patient and his family. Spending a lot of time with the patient and family, she got him comfortable and settled allowing the patient to one of the most peaceful nights he had his entire visit.
“Margie went more than the extra mile to support her patient,” said a co-worker. “Margie always provides tender, gentle and compassionate care.”
Sebastiani was caring for a congestive heart failure patient at the
“Heather is a wonderful nurse and truly care about her patient,” wrote the patient who nominated her for the award. “Heather is awesome. She truly cared for me and took wonderful care of me.”
The DAISY Award was established by the DAISY Foundation in memory of J. Patrick Barnes who died at 33 an auto-immune disease. His family was so impressed by the clinical skills, caring and compassion of the nurses who cared for him that they created this national award to say “thank you” to nurses everywhere. For more information, go to www.daisyfoundation.org.
To learn more about nursing careers and programs at Franciscan St. Francis, go to www.stfrancishospitals.org/nursing.
