Dilshoda Osorio, BSN, RN

I am currently a nursing student at NYU Rory Meyers, completing my clinical sequence on the 11th floor at Kimmel. I cannot express how wonderful my experience has been. Not only is the unit itself organized and the perfect learning environment, but I owe this wonderful experience to Nurse Dee.

I know nurses are sometimes paired with students, and it might not be their favorite thing. We students are learning, and sometimes we can slow nurses down. Nurse Dee has taught me the most I have learned in nursing school so far. She wants her students to learn; she encourages us to practice under her supervision, and she genuinely wants us to be there.

For us nursing students, there is nothing in the world that means more than that.

I see how patients interact with her, and through my many shifts, I constantly see patients requesting her back because of her presence at the bedside. When I picture the type of nurse I want to become, I picture Nurse Dee.

If anyone deserves an award for the responsibilities they carry as a nurse, it is Nurse Dee. You can tell in just five minutes with her in a room with a patient how impactful she is. Always willing to listen, always being there-even if nothing is going on-just to check up on them.

I could write a million more sentences on how deserving this woman is of this award. I hope that one day I can become at least 1/8 of the nurse she is, because even that would be amazing. I don’t say this lightly, and I don’t usually go out of my way to do things like this, but I know my experience is just one of many.

Any patient, student, or staff member who has worked with Nurse Dee would agree that she is the epitome of what the DAISY Award represents.