The DAISY Awards

History: The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurse Educators was established in 2021 in collaboration with the Wisconsin League for Nursing (WLN) and The DAISY Foundation™. In 2022, the Arizona and New Jersey Leagues for Nursing developed a partnership with WLN and expanded the award to their states and the NJLN presented their first awards in November, 2022.  We are looking forward to once again presenting this award in 2024.

Purpose: The purpose of the Award is to recognize exceptional nurses in clinical practice or simulation who exhibit, inspire and nurture compassion and respect amongst peers, mentees, students, or colleagues. These nurses directly influence learning in clinical practice/simulation and play a crucial role in forming exceptional frontline nurses. In turn, these individuals encourage nurses or nursing students to exhibit acts of compassion and build relationships with patients and families.

Nurses eligible for this Award include those who influence and develop nurses or nursing students at the site of direct or simulated patient care. Eligible nurses include formal educators by title/role and informal educators not defined by their job description or title.

Some examples of eligible formal nurse educators include, but are not limited to:

• Clinical, lab, or simulation instructors
• Staff development specialists
• Clinical nurse educators.

Some examples of eligible informal nurse educators include, but are not limited to:

• Preceptors for APRN, RN, LPN/LVN, graduate nurses or pre-licensure nursing students
• Mentors
• Nurse colleagues
• Charge nurses
• Resource nurses
• Clinical leaders

This Award is for eligible nurses completing work at New Jersey DAISY Partner Institutions.

RECIPIENT CHARACTERISTICS

Primary Characteristic (REQUIRED): Fosters a compassionate environment where learners flourish.

Additional Characteristics (recipient demonstrates at least TWO additional characteristics):

• Facilitates a spirit of inquiry and lifelong learning.
• Promotes development and advancement of the learner's professional identity.
• Facilitates learner development, socialization, and interpersonal communication.
• Demonstrates collaborative interprofessional relationships.
• Bridges theoretical concepts to clinical practice and promotes critical thinking and clinical judgment.
• Expert resource using wisdom demonstrates safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered care.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

• The nominee must foster a compassionate environment where learners flourish and demonstrate two additional characteristics outlined in the Recipient Characteristics.
• Licensed nurses are involved in forming nurses or nursing students (see examples of formal and informal nurse educator roles in award descriptions).
• Guidance/practice must occur in New Jersey in a direct and/or simulated patient care setting.
• Current practice in New Jersey and holds an active, unencumbered nursing license.
• Eligible licensed nurses include Registered Nurse, Advanced Practice Nurse, or Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse.

LIMITATIONS

• The work the nominee is being recognized for must have been completed at an New Jersey DAISY Partner Institution.*

* The nominee does not need to be an employee of an New Jersey DAISY Partner Institution to be eligible to receive the award, so long as the work they are being recognized for was completed at a New Jersey DAISY Partner Institution, they meet the eligibility criteria. If you are unsure if they are a partner institution, email info@njln.org with the name and location and we will check it for you.

HONOREE RECOGNITION

Updated Annually

• The honoree will be acknowledged by the NJLN in writing.
• The honoree will be recognized during the NJLN Nurse Recognition and Scholarship Awards event on Friday, November 1, 2024.
• The honoree will receive a complimentary one-year NJLN membership; one paid registration to attend the NJLN Recognition Awards event, a floral bouquet for in-person recognition events, and DAISY gifts (DAISY Nurse Leader Sculpture, certificate, pin, and eligibility for other DAISY benefits).
• The honoree will be registered with the DAISY Foundation™ as a DAISY honoree.

NOMINATION FORM

Nomination Due Date:  Currently Nominations are now closed.

Questions? Visit our Frequently Asked Questions page or e-mail NJLN Daisy Award Contact: Susan Chandler, info@njln.org.