INDIANAPOLIS
– Franciscan St. Francis Health has two registered whose acts of compassionate
care and joyful service has sewn seeds of gratitude among their patients and
colleagues.
For
Carol O’Keefe and Terri Sullivan, nursing is far more than a career. It’s a veritable
calling.
O’Keefe,
a surgical progressive care nurse at the Indianapolis campus, was
nominated by a patient’s family member, who credited her for impeccable care.
“Carol
is an angel and if God is, if he isn’t already, blessing her life for the love
and kindness that she shows to her patients,” said the patient’s family member
who nominated O’Keefe. “She is close to perfect as I’ve ever seen. She is super
human.”
Sullivan,
an ICU nurse at the Mooresville campus, was
nominated by a colleague who nominated her for her compassionate care with
several patients.
“Terri
showed her generous nature with one long-term ICU patient and her beautiful
giving nature with another terminally-ill patient,” said a respiratory
therapist colleague. “She pulled her chair up to the patient’s bedside, held
his hand and told him she was there and she would stay with. She reached out
and hugged him.”
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.
