December 22, 2017 at 4:38 p.m.
Local nurse receives prestigious DAISY Award
Local nurse receives prestigious DAISY Award
By Kayla Thomason-
Ashley Boogren, recipient of the award and hospice case manager at Ascension at Home, was stunned when her name was called.
She had no idea that someone from her facility had won the award let alone that the winner was her.
"I did not even know we were doing DAISY Awards," she said. "I was surprised because we have a lot of wonderful nurses here so it could be any one of us."
Boogren was touched to be chosen for the award.
"I love my job and I love my co-workers so it means a lot to me, it really does," she said. "The DAISY Award for nursing is a very big thing. It's very special for all nurses no matter what scope of practice they do, so to be selected, because I know they are very picky, it means a lot. It's by far the greatest accomplishment you can get in life."
Melissa Salaam, clinical manager with Ascension at Home, said Boogren was the second nurse in the organization to receive an award.
"We have amazing nurses here, we really have the best of the best, I think, and they're dedicated to the work and the hospice patients in the community and it just shows the culture of homecare here," she said.
Salaam agrees that Boogren is quite deserving of the award and recognition.
"I think she's really deserving," Salaam said. "She's a leader of our agency. She steps up and helps others, the teamwork is amazing, and she does really great patient care so she's definitely deserving of it."
Approximately 2,200 health care systems and 15 countries are in the program and recipients are chosen quarterly based on their extraordinary compassion and clinical expertise.
The DAISY Award is part of the DAISY Foundation's program, which was created by family members of J. Patrick Barnes, 33, who died in 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) - an autoimmune disease. The DAISY Award was created after the Barnes family had experienced extraordinary care from their nurses and wanted to give back to all nurses.
Kayla Breese may be reached at [email protected].
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