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 24-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)

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