Mosaic Life Care congratulates DAISY Award recipient

By Nicole Scott

Mosaic Life Care celebrated Debra Burns, RN from the Emergency Department at Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph, Medical Center who won the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses on Monday, Dec. 23.

According to Mosaic, Nurse Burns was nominated by another Emergency Department nurse, Natalie Rhodes who wrote, “On this particular day, Deb volunteered to take a complicated patient. Deb then spent more than two hours in the room with the patient giving the best care she could. She did the right thing for the patient even though it was a hard call. But the thing is, Deb always gives the best care she can. Whether it’s a patient in the ED or a coworker in crisis, Deb goes out of her way to help.”

Nurse Rhodes continued, “She would start a T-shirt fundraiser for me if I stubbed my toe. Deb has a passion for all patients with complicated mental health and complicated social backgrounds and is always willing to go the extra mile to make sure she is giving quality care and doing the absolute right thing for patients and their families. Deb has made a difference in more lives than she realizes. I would want Deb to be my nurse every time.”

“I am thankful to have Deb in all aspects of life. She’s an amazing nurse, great friend and her love for her family does not go unnoticed. She is selfless. I wish I could buy her a cruise, but a DAISY nomination is the next best thing,” Nurse Rhodes concluded.

Mosaic Life Care congratulated Nurse Burns through social media on Monday afternoon, saying, “Congratulations to our recent #DAISYAward recipient, Debra Burns, RN, from the Emergency Department (ED) at Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph, Medical Center.”

The Daisy Award, created by the Daisy Foundation, is an award presented to licensed, registered nurses who have gone above and beyond to provide care and compassion to their patients, according to the Foundation website.

The website goes on to explain that The Daisy Foundation was created by a family in 1999, after their family member, Patrick Barnes, was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease ITP or Immune Thrombocytopenia at age 33 and passed away after spending eight weeks in a hospital.

According to the Foundation website, the Barnes family wanted a way to honor Patrick and during the hospitalization they found that the nurses helped them through “the darkest hours of their lives.”

Tena Barnes, Patrick’s widow, named the Foundation “DAISY” which stands for Diseases Attacking the Immune System, the family created the 501©(3) non-profit organization and the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses, according to the DAISY Foundation website.

The award began at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance at the University of Washington Medical Center where Patrick had been treated and was “the first program of its kind to give patients, families, and co-workers a way to express their gratitude to nurses for what they became nurses to do — provide compassionate care to patients and their families,” The Foundation website explained.

Finally, since its inception in 1999, the DAISY Award has “become a strategic tool for nurse recruitment, retention, and resilience that has been adopted by thousands of healthcare organizations and schools of nursing in the U.S. and around the world,” The DAISY Foundation website stated.

Mosaic Life Care concluded their post on Monday afternoon by saying, “To nominate the outstanding nurse in your life, complete the form on the Mosaic website at myMLC.com/daisy.”

For more information about the DAISY Foundation or the DAISY Award visit daisyfoundation.org.