Courtesy DAISY Foundation
Wendy Davis, a local nurse, was honored in March with the internationally recognized DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses for her work as a caregiver.
She received the award from the DAISY Foundation through her employer, Stat Staff Professionals Inc., a nursing agency in Saratoga Springs.
“Wendy has worked with Stat Staff Professionals for 10 years,” said Victoria McCartney, a member of the selection committee. “She has consistently demonstrated compassion, knowledge, respect, support, and caring for her patients and her family.”
“In our present setting, we have travelers due to the influx of inexperienced staff,” wrote an ICU staff member from Claxton Hepburn Hospital about Davis. “She has not hesitated to jump in and help teach. She shares valuable experiences when they arise. She is a mentor though, as a traveler, it is not required of her. She’ll take on the extra patient, even offers to at times, to maintain ‘balance’ in the assignment for the newer staff.”
The DAISY Foundation is a nonprofit organization, established in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, by members of his family. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, a little known but not uncommon auto-immune disease. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System.
Nurses may be nominated by patients, families, and colleagues. Davis was chosen by a committee at Stat Staff Professionals.
Davis is the second nurse to receive the honor from Stat Staff Professionals. Stat Staff Professionals is one of the few healthcare staffing agencies that has partnered with the DAISY Foundation to award travel nurses with this honor.
“By recognizing our nurses with the DAISY Award we find this to be a meaningful way of sharing the compassionate care our nurses deliver to their patients and families on a daily basis,” said Stat Staff Professionals founder and CEO David Theobald, MS, RN, when asked why he decided to partner with the DAISY Foundation. “Our entire organization is honored to be a part of the DAISY Award and witness the differences our nurses make in peoples’ lives.”
Stat Staff Professionals, Inc. is a nurse-owned and nurse-operated professional staffing organization specializing in staffing registered nurses and allied health professionals.
Learn more at www.statstaffpro.com.