CHATTANOOGA, TENN. – Erlanger recently recognized Lexy Chiapetta, RN, with the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
A DAISY Foundation program, the DAISY Award is a national award to celebrate nurses who define patient and family-centered care by recognizing the super-human efforts nurses perform every day. Nurses can be nominated by anyone in the healthcare organization, including patients and family members.
Chiapetta’s nominator stated in her nomination, “My husband spent over two weeks on the third-floor med/surg unit. Lexy was his nurse on the first full day he was on the unit, and from there out, any time she was scheduled, she took care of him. I am so grateful she did as well. Anything that we requested to make him more comfortable, she went out of her way to make it happen! When she was there, I knew he could relax and breathe some. I did not have to worry about how he was being cared for when I was not there.”
The DAISY Foundation was created in 1999 after Patrick Barnes passed away from Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura. His family wanted a way to honor him and show appreciation the nurses’ compassion and kindness they extended to the whole family during his eight-week stay in the hospital. Barnes’ wife, Tena, created the DAISY acronym, which stands for “diseases attacking the immune system.”
To nominate a nurse for extraordinary care, visit erlanger.org/daisyaward.
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