DAISY Award

Nominate an Extraordinary Home Care Clinical Nurse, Midwife, or Nurse Leader today!

Celebrate nursing excellence and leadership in home-based nursing care with a DAISY award.

The International Home Care Nurses Organization (IHCNO) is a Supportive Association of the DAISY (Disease Attacking the Immune System) Foundation. The DAISY Foundation’s mission is to express gratitude to nurses for their extraordinary, compassionate, skillful care provided to patients and their families. The goal of this partnership is to recognize home care clinical nurses, midwives, and nurse leaders worldwide for the extraordinary care and compassion they provide to patients living in their homes, and their families that support them.

Nominations are ongoing and can be made using the links below, or the QR codes. The selection process is a blind review and scoring of nominations against established criteria is performed by a committee of experienced home care clinical nurses.

IHCNO Extraordinary Home Care Clinical Nurse Criteria:

• Models empathy and demonstrates a caring presence in all situations.
• Demonstrates excellent clinical skills in the delivery of compassionate patient care.
• Demonstrates professionalism in the work environment.
• Establishes a special connection with the patients and families.

To nominate someone for the IHCNO DAISY Nurse Award you must use this form:

https://app.roundsplus.getwellnetwork.com/SurveyAction/SurveyGo/xjvBd5ceWj6Sz?u=IHCNO

IHCNO Extraordinary Nurse Leader Nomination Criteria:

• Nurse Leader creates an environment where attributes of trust, compassion, mutual respect, continued professional development and ethical behaviors are modeled and supported.
• Nurse Leader is accessible, available, and responsive to the needs of their team.
• Nurse Leader uses problem-solving, encourages critical thinking and advocates for their team.
• Nurse Leader ensures the needs of the team are communicated to organization leadership, organizes priorities and directions are communicated to their team.
• Nurse Leader is a compassionate leader

To nominate someone for the IHCNO DAISY Nurse Leader Award you must use this form:

https://app.roundsplus.getwellnetwork.com/SurveyAction/SurveyGo/xjvBd5ceWj6Sz?u=IHCNONurseLeader