Memorial Announces Victoria Orsot December 2021 DAISY Foundation Award Winner
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Congratulations to Victoria Orsot, a registered nurse on 2T and outpatient oncology!
From the nominator:
Despite being in the middle of another surge of the pandemic, Victoria persevered and completed annual chemotherapy education with all staff. Along with this, Victoria also picked up extra shifts to help on the inpatient units and monoclonal antibody infusion clinic. Victoria consistently wears a smile and has a “can do” mindset. She is consistently positive and makes the work environment a more positive place. She is willing to help anyone within the organization; she has developed a nurse aide training program in the last year which helped provide better nursing assistant coverage in the tower. She stepped in and worked on tracking and coordination of patient care for head and neck cancer patients this summer when a gap was identified. She is passionate about nursing, nursing education, and making the workplace a positive environment. For these examples and many, many more reasons, Victoria is a DAISY Nurse.
About DAISY
In late 1999, at the age of 33, Patrick Barnes awoke with some blood blisters in his mouth. Having survived Hodgkins Disease twice, he was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with the auto-immune disease, ITP (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura).
Said his father, Mark Barnes, "We are so blessed that we were able to spend the eight weeks of his hospitalization with him and his family. During those weeks, we experienced the best of Nursing. We were there to see the clinical skill that dealt with his very complex medical situation, the fast thinking of nurses who saved his life more than once, and that nursing excellence that took years to hone to the best of the profession. But frankly, as a patient family, we rather expected that Pat would have great clinical care. That was why he was in the hospital. What we did not expect was the way his nurses delivered that care - the kindness and compassion they gave Pat and all of us in his family every day. We were awed by the way the nurses touched him and spoke with him, even when he was on a ventilator and totally sedated. The way they informed and educated us eased our minds. They truly helped us through the darkest hours of our lives, with soft voices of hope and strong loving hugs that to this day, we still feel."
Just days after he died, the family began talking about what they would do to help fill the giant hole in their hearts that Pat’s passing had left. His wife came up with the acronym, DAISY, standing for diseases attacking the immune system. As they discussed what to do in Patrick’s memory, first and foremost, they wanted to say Thank You for the gifts nurses give their patients and families every day. That is when the family created The DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses.
