Becky Teising and Mickey Sullivan are the latest recipients of the hospital’s DAISY Awards. The awards are part of The DAISY Foundation, a nationwide program recognizing nurses.
Teising, who works in the surgical intensive care unit at Franciscan St. Francis Health-Indianapolis, was nominated by a co-worker. The wife of a patient spent many hours sleeping in the waiting room for days. Recognizing this, Teising tried, but was unable to get her a complementary hotel room for restful night of sleep. So Teising booked and paid for the room.
“Becky is a very good nurse with a big, compassionate heart,” said the co-worker who nominated her.
Sullivan, who works on the surgical unit at Franciscan St. Francis Health-Beech Grove, was nominated by a grateful spouse of a patient, who wrote: “I had never expected to receive that kind of sympathy or genuine concern for my husband as well as myself.” She goes on to say that Sullivan made her and her husband feel like family. “I can not really put into words all the wonderful things she did for both of us. She is an awesome person and great nurse.”
The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses is a national program that honors the compassionate care and clinical excellence that our Franciscan St. Francis nurses bring to their patients every day.
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.
