Lindsay
Buck and Bonnie Hicks are the latest recipients of the hospital’s DAISY Awards,
presented to registered nurses by Franciscan St. Francis Health.
Buck,
who at the time was working in the critical care unit at the Indianapolis
hospital, was nominated by a co-worker who says Lindsay is the perfect example
of an extraordinary nurse.
“Lindsay
is always wonderful to work, with but on a particular day she went above and
beyond with a patient and for three hours, she stood by the patient’s bedside,
painting her nails and toenails, washing and brushing her hair and interacting
with her,” the co-worker wrote.
Hicks,
who works on the post-surgical unit at the Indianapolis campus, was nominated
by a patient and his sister. “It’s easy to see her love of taking care of
people,” wrote the sister. “We already know it takes someone special to be a
nurse and Bonnie is such a great example of what the DAISY award represents.”
The
DAISY Award was established by the DAISY Foundation in memory of J. Patrick
Barnes who died at 33 of 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.
