The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurse Leaders in Home Care Nomination Form - IHCNONurseLeader

The DAISY Award is an international recognition program started in memory of J. Patrick Barnes. Pat’s family experienced firsthand the difference his nurses made in his care through clinical excellence and outstanding compassionate care. The DAISY Nurse Leader Award recognizes nurses who are extraordinary in the impact they have displaying compassionate leadership in Home Care.  The DAISY Foundation is dedicated to recognizing all the "right" that Nurses do, and compassionate leadership is indeed "right". Please visit DAISYFoundation.org to learn more about Pat's story and how The DAISY Award recognizes Extraordinary Nurses
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CRITERIA
The International Home Care Nurses Organization will utilize the following criteria for recognizing extraordinary leaders in Home Care: 
- Home Care Nurse Leader creates an environment where attributes of trust, compassion, mutual respect, continued professional development and ethical behaviors are modeled and supported.
- Home Care Nurse Leader is accessible, available, and responsive to the needs of their team.
- Home Care Nurse Leader uses problem-solving, encourages critical thinking and advocates for their team.
- Home Care Nurse Leader ensures the needs of the team are communicated to organization leadership, organizes priorities and directions are communicated to their team.
- Home Care Nurse Leader is a compassionate leader.

Complete this form to share your story of how a nurse leader made a difference in your care or that of someone you know:

1. Name of the nurse leader you are nominating:*

2. How has this nurse leader made a big impact on your ability or other nurses' abilities to give great, compassionate care? Please address each of the five criteria above. Note: If using a mobile device to enter this E-Nomination you can easily enter your story by selecting the microphone button on your device and dictating your story instead of typing.*

Please tell us about yourself:

3. Your name:

4. Organization Name:

5. Phone:

6. Email:

7. I am a:

Example Story:

"Dorcas has been a faithful, compassionate, and skilled home health nurse for more than two decades. From humble beginnings serving neighborhood mothers as a midwife in Kenya to becoming a passionate Nurse Leader through home health/hospice/palliative and rehab care, Dorcas has displayed grace under pressure and resilience. She continues to excel in maintaining extraordinary relationships with patients, caregivers, physicians, and referral sources. Dorcas' work outside of employment is leading the building of homes for Kenyan widows and ensuring that medically fragile children in California are well cared for. Dorcas serves as a beacon of hope for all the international nurses she mentors.Dorcas has been a strong influence for Kaiser Permanente since 2021. She came to the U.S. after a career in Kenya and the UK. She was a huge influence on the international nurses with whom she had supervised through her very diverse clinical background. She speaks other languages, and this helped with clinicians and patients who struggled with English as a second language. Due to her intense desire for patients to get exactly what they needed, she staffed cases with nurses with a similar background as patients which brought the greatest positive outcomes for the patients/staff but was the highest amount of stress on her personally.  Prior to coming to Kaiser, Dorcas helped to establish the first Hospital in Home service in San Bernardino, CA. They successfully kept patients from being admitted to the local hospital and allowed clinicians, including physicians, to visit the patient at home. In addition, Dorcas also worked to implement and deploy the first Telehealth program from the KP-Fontana as the first round of COVID hit.  She was able to decrease the potential spread of the disease through both the patients and staff alike. Dorcas had taken on the role of 2-3 additional supervisors when they had been out on leave. She was always very supportive of staff, being able to maintain a great work/life balance. Her focus was to ensure that international staff were able to maintain a long leave time to return to their home country.  This created a significant challenge in making sure patients were adequately staffed. It has been a huge key in recruiting and retaining staff and meeting the diverse needs of a county and state with over 150 languages in their area of service.  Currently, Dorcas is very active outside her career by doing projects in international service work. Her projects have supported building houses for widows in her home country as well as supporting the local caregivers of medically fragile children. Dorcas stands as a sterling example of what the life of an International Home Care Nurse does in this world."

Please click the "Submit" button when you are finished entering your DAISY E-Nomination.