Registered
nurses, Dolores Grah and Shannon Bruce have been named the March 2013 recipients
of the hospital’s DAISY Awards.
Bruce,
a dialysis nurse at the Indianapolis campus, was nominated for the special
things she does for her patients.
“Shannon frequently does special things for
her patients including giving Valentine’s Day cards, and most recently getting
flowers for a patient to give to his wife on their anniversary,” explained the
co-worker who nominated her. “I feel she goes out of her way for all of her
patients and is quite deserving of this award.”
Grah,
a critical care unit nurse at the Indianapolis campus, was nominated by a
co-worker who felt she went above and beyond with a patient’s care. Dolores
helped a patient in need outside her usual nursing duties.
“She bathed layers of dirt off his body,
lotioned his skin, washed his clothes and bought him a new pair of shoes,”
wrote the co-worker. “Dolores
continually cares for patients in the most selfless, compassionate ways. She is
an amazing servant of Christ.”
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.
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 http://sites.franciscanalliance.org/stfrancis/nursing.
