Evidence of Impact

Nurse Engagement

Ignites Extraordinary Compassionate Care
Improves Satisfaction and Retention
Promotes Wellbeing and Resilience

Healthy Work Environment

Celebrates All the Right
Reminds Nurses Why they became Nurses
Builds Team Spirit

Patient/Family Experience

Communicates Profound Gratitude
Reinforces Patient and Family Centered Care
Inspires Community Loyalty

DAISY is an evidence-based form of meaningful recognition: DAISY has been used as a proxy for meaningful recognition in research studies. DAISY has a 21-year history of success, which has provided insights into successful programs of nurse recognition as a form of meaningful recognition, DAISY can impact healthcare organizations in 3 areas:

1. Contributes to a healthy work environment
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• 1 of 6 standards of a HWE (AANC, 2005, 2016)
• Focuses on the “right” in organizations versus what is wrong
• Reminds nurses why they became nurses (Lefton, 2014)
• Operationalizes Mission and Vision of compassionate care celebration as a Team (Kelly and Lefton, 2017)
• From Praise to Profits: The Business Case For Recognition at Work (Gallup, 2023)

2. Nurse Engagement
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• DAISY Nurses are role models of compassionate care (Lefton, 2012)
• DAISY nominations may contribute to compassion satisfaction (Lefton, 2012)
• Engaged nurses support nurse retention (Kelly and Lefton, 2017; Lefton, 2014)

3. Patient and Family experience
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• Over 2 million nominations written to express gratitude (The DAISY Foundation, 2019)
• Improves patient-experience outcomes (McClelland, et al, 2014)
• Supports and demonstrates patient and family centered care (Sweeney, Grant, Lefton, Foreman-Lovell, 2019)
• Fosters loyalty for an organization (Sweeney, et al, 2019)
• Nominations provide information/data to improve patient experience (Clavelle, Sweeney, et al, 2019)

References:

Contributes to a healthy work environment
Links to References:

• AACN Healthy Work Environment Toolkit
•Grant, S. (2022). Meaningful Recognition for Nurse Managers. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 52 (3), 127-128. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000001117.
• Raso, Rosanne DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, FAONL; Fitzpatrick, Joyce J. PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, FNAP; Masick, Kevin PhD; Giordano-Mulligan, Marie PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CNOR; Sweeney, Cynthia D. DNP, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, FAAN Perceptions of Authentic Nurse Leadership and Work Environment and the Pandemic Impact for Nurse Leaders and Clinical Nurses, JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration: May 2021 - Volume 51 - Issue 5 - p 257-263 doi: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000001010
• Campbell, C., Patrician, Pa., Booth, R. (2020). Generational preferences in the nursing work environment: A dimenionsal concept analysis. Journal of Nursing Management, 28, 927-937. DOI: 10.1111/jonm.13024
• Ambani, Z., Kitney-Lee, A., & Lake, E. (2020). The nursing practice environment and nurse job outcomes: A path analysis of survey data. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29, 2602-2614.
•Graystone. (2019). Prevent Compassion Fatigue and Burnout With a Magnet Culture. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 49(5), 231–233.
• Raso, Rosanne DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, FAONL; Fitzpatrick, Joyce J. PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, FNAP; Masick, Kevin PhD; Giordano-Mulligan, Marie PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CNOR; Sweeney, Cynthia D. DNP, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, FAAN Perceptions of Authentic Nurse Leadership and Work Environment and the Pandemic Impact for Nurse Leaders and Clinical Nurses, JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration: May 2021 - Volume 51 - Issue 5 - p 257-263 doi: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000001010
• Sweeney, C. (2019). DAISY Faculty. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 49 (3), 113-115. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000000721.
• Ulrich, B., Barden, C., Cassidy, L., & Varn-Davis, N. (2019). Critical Care Nurse Work Environments 2018: Findings and Implications. Critical Care Nurse, 39(2), 67–84.
• Stevanin, S., Palese, A., Bressan, V., Vehviläinen-Julkunen, K., & Kvist, T. (2018). Workplace-related generational characteristics of nurses: A mixed-method systematic review. Journal of advanced nursing, 74(6), 1245–1263.
• Sweeney. (2017). The DAISY Nurse Leader Award: Expressing Gratitude for Courageous Leaders Fostering an environment where compassion and courage can thrive. Nurse Leader, 15(1), 45–48.
• AACN. (2005). AACN standards for establishing and sustaining healthy work environments: A journey to excellence. American Journal of Critical Care 14(3), 187-197.
• AACN. (2017). AACN standards for establishing and sustaining healthy work environments: A journey to excellence, 2nd edition. www.aacn.org
• Gallup (2023). From Praise to Profits: The Business Case For Recognition at Work

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