Veterans Day: Pausing to Honor the Leadership of Military Nurses.

Veterans Day provides the opportunity to acknowledge the service of our nurse colleagues who have served or currently serve in the US military. It is a moment to reflect on their leadership and experiences as military nurses.

Retaining the Best: Recognizing What Meaningful Recognition Is to Nurses as a Strategy for Nurse Leaders.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify what meaningful recognition is to nurses in a postpandemic healthcare landscape.

Background: The COVID pandemic has exacerbated the critical need to retain our nursing workforce. Meaningful recognition as a component of a healthy work environment can be a strategy to retain nurses.

Expressing Gratitude for Transitions, for Relationships, and for the Hope They Bring.

The past 18 months has been filled with transitions for healthcare organizations, for nurses, and for the patients and families they care for. As we transition from the real and virtual confines inflicted by the pandemic, the light shines on gratitude for relationships cultivated and the hope they bring.

DAISY: Affirmation of Gratitude in Times of Pandemic.

The recent pandemic has caused many changes in the professional and personal lives of patients, their families, and the nurses who care for them. Something the pandemic could not change is the profound gratitude that patients, families, and others have for the extraordinary compassionate care that nurses have provided.

DAISY: Gratitude That Transcends the Moment.

DAISY stories express gratitude from patients and families for extraordinary and compassionate nursing care. These stories share what extraordinary care looks like to the nominator as they describe their relationship with their nurse and communicate a profound sense of gratitude that goes beyond the moment of care. This sense of gratitude can have a transcending impact on others, including healthcare organizations, as demonstrated by one family's experience.

DAISY: Meaningful Recognition-Transcending Cultural and Geographic Boundaries for Nurses.

The International Council of Nurses and the World Health Organization have designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. 2020 Is also being celebrated as the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. The DAISY Award, as a global recognition of compassionate, extraordinary nursing care, aligns with both celebrations.

DAISY Faculty: Role Modeling Compassion for the Next Generation of Nurses.

There is a growing need for nurses who have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to serve as faculty in schools of nursing. The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Faculty honors these nurses who are dedicated to ensuring that there will be a next generation of nurses to care for patients, families, and communities. Recognizing nursing faculty for their compassionate and clinically skilled care in the academic setting serves to retain and recruit inspirational nursing faculty for the benefit of all!

Compassion: A Critical Link in Extraordinary Care for Patients and Families.

Delivering clinical nursing expertise enveloped with compassion should be the expectation for care. Ensuring this level of excellence happens when a critically ill patient is transferred from one hospital to another is challenging yet imperative to the patient's and family's experience. The DAISY Foundation recognizes nurses who provide compassionate and extraordinary nursing care, as demonstrated in the stories of 2 nurses, from different organizations, who cared for the same patient and family and were honored with The DAISY Award.

DAISY Nurses-Recognizing Clinical Expertise Through Certification.

The DAISY Foundation is dedicated to recognizing nurses who provide compassionate, skilled, and extraordinary nursing care. Nominations for The DAISY Award are typically submitted in the form of a story. Stories are an opportunity to share with others what compassionate and extraordinary nursing care looks like and to recognize the individual nurses who provide that care.

The DAISY Award: A Patient-Family Perspective of Compassionate and Extraordinary Care.

What does it mean to patients and families to recognize the extraordinary and compassionate care provided by amazing nurses? The triple aim framework of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement includes the patient/family experience as 1 of the 3 targets contributing to better healthcare outcomes. In this column, the perspective of recognizing "their" nurse with The DAISY Award will be shared by a patient's family.

A DAISY Nurse: Moral Distress and End-of-Life Decisions in the Pediatric Setting.

What does it mean to be a "DAISY nurse"? Moral distress and end-of-life issues are difficult in any situation but, within the context of a pediatric setting, can be even more difficult. In this column, a DAISY nurse shares her thoughts on her role, her professional journey to explore moral distress and ethical decision making, and the lessons learned that led to her recognition with The DAISY Award and the joyful celebration.