Tena Barnes Carraher

This powerful DAISY Foundation story shows how nursing compassion, connection, and communication create lifelong bonds with patients and families.

Keep DAISY Award nominators informed! They want to know their nominations were received and that their gratitude reached the nurses who made a difference.

The DAISY Foundation is celebrating four amazing nurses whose work exemplifies how to provide the best, safest, and most humane care to all patients.

The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Faculty has become The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurse Educators to honor every nurse educator across the education continuum in academic and practice settings.

We decided to form a nonprofit foundation called DAISY, an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System, tying back to the condition that took our Pat from us. We turn our grief into something positive with the DAISY Award.