Honoring Our DAISY Award Recipients

1. Honoring Our DAISY Award Recipients for the essential role that you play in fostering caring-healing environments and helping-trusting relationships with our patients and their families 2007 2010 • DAISY Nurses: • are the kind of nurses about whom other RNs say, "I would want this nurse to take care of my mother." • have assessment skills so acute that they spot the tiny changes in a patient's symptoms or behavior that monitors cannot detect, often leading to life-saving action. • are, when patients and families are most upset, always calm, focused, communicative, and comforting. • are often nominated by the new grads they are precepting. These young RN's know they are being trained by a nurse who leads by example and exemplifies who a nurse truly is: a highly skilled clinician, a true patient advocate, a dedicated mentor, an insightful educator, a sensitive caregiver. • are consummate team players, and their colleagues feel working with them is a "gift". • don't "pass the buck." They are decisive and involved, doing what is required and then some, often working outside their comfort zone when a situation necessitates it. • know that "the little things" can make a big difference in their patients' care and outcomes. In fact, there are no "little things" in patient care. • are persistent. When their well-honed judgment speaks to them, they act persuasively - even when a physician disagrees with them or a patient says, "No, I'm fine." • are not only nurses when they are on duty. They are nurses in supermarkets, in their hospitals' parking lots, in restaurants at dinner with their families, on airplanes - intervening and caring for total strangers who are in trouble. • meet the needs of their patients not only by providing excellent nursing care but also paying close attention to the emotional and psychological needs of their patients. They treat each patient as a human being who has a personality, a history, a time of good health and strength, value and dignity. • are entrusted with the lives and care of children, and the comfort and kindness these nurses show help their parents get through their worst nightmare - a child dreadfully ill or injured. • know that taking the time for compassionate communication can help a family make a good decision for their loved one. DAISY Award honorees in the busiest units say to themselves often, "I have the time." • on their own time, with their own money, do special things for their patients' children, for patients who are indigent, for families who are desperate. • don't let their personal situations interfere with their ability to deliver professional, skillful, compassionate care, even when they are dealing with their own tragedies. • are the nurses about whom patients have written to hospital administrators, "Every day she/he was my nurses was a ''good day." • The Extraordinary Work DAISY Nurses Do Every Day. Retrieved May 1, 2011, from http://www.daisyfoundation.org/daisynurses.htm • SACRAMENTO • Calre Alciso, RN • Deborah Basset, RN • James Brennan, RN • Christine Crouch, RN • Jupree Lamson, RN • Elena Raveica, RN • Ellen Tomson, RN • RICHMOND • Belinda Aspacio, RN • Roxanne Lee, RN • ROSEVILLE • Jose (Chito) Cobarrubias, RN • Jill Edgar, RN • Janet Eltorai, RN • Elizabeth Hasbun, RN • Rebecca Haynes, RN • Carole Jones, RN • Kelly Lacey, RN • Amkha Lovan, RN • Marilyn Ocampo, RN • Kristina Rolf, RN • Carole Schiller, RN • Maria (Mabee) Zapanta, RN • SAN FRANCISCO • Michael Etchevers, RN • Elcy George, RN • Pipa Hammon, RN • Joy Lee, RN • Kiitty Mui, RN • SAN JOSE • Dexter Gabi, RN • Anamaria Mather, RN • SAN RAFAEL • Robert Funk, RN • SANTA ROSA • Blaine Allsup, RN • Jackie Brittain, RN • Paul Castaneda, RN • Lisa Kern, RN • Brenda Lodge, RN • Inez Lybeck, RN • Toni Millhaem, RN • Monica Rockefeller, RN • Cyndi Rodgers, RN • Cathie Taurian, RN • Lisa Winkler, RN • Karen Woods, RN • SOUTH SACRAMENTO • Blessing Ugbo, RN • VACAVILLE • Thomas Garlick, RN • Arlene Sancada, RN • WALNUT CREEK • Tanya Brezman, RN • Ashley Moore, RN • ANTIOCH • Asifau Abigor, RN • Desia Grismore, RN • Marty Montgomery, RN • Charlie Warner, RN • FRESNO • Marion Hampton, RN • Lettie Rincon, RN • Clarissa Shoffner, RN • Denise Winslow, RN • HAYWARD • Dolores Davies, RN • MANTECA/MODESTO • Ismelda Bazan,RN • Karamdeep Chahal, RN • Stephanie Rangel, RN • Ruthie Van Staavern, RN • REDWOOD CITY • Zen Espiritu, RN • Manny Garcia, RN • Kezi Guvenilir,RN • Mike Harrington, RN • Gilda Santos, RN • Renee Tellez, RN • SACRAMENTO • Dalene Baumert, RN • Evelyn Baylon, RN • Belinda Bell, RN • Lori Bracamonte, RN • Jeanette Burk, RN • Roland LaPlante, RN • Martha Mendoza, RN • Svetlana Protasovitskaya, RN • Jamie Rivera, RN • Ella Silchenko, RN • Catherine Smith, RN • Sonia Thompson, RN • Rhonda Tinti, RN • Hahn Tran, RN • VALLEJO • Raquel Andaliis, RN • Glenda Andaya, RN • Rosalee Cordero, RN • Jennifer Dalton, RN • Reminda Lopez, RN • Maria (Tess) Oteyza, RN • Trinidad (Trini) Miniano, RN • Presentacion Munoz, RN • Zywx Saldana, RN • Malu (Maria) Yllana, RN . 2008 • SACRAMENTO • Elizabeth Adkinson, RN • Sonia Bullen, RN • Eileen Carreon, RN • Michael Chavez, RN • Colin Hunter, RN • Nora Letim, RN • Christine Longrigg, RN • Sharon McCoy, RN • Rowena Nolasco, RN • Lilibeth Pascual, RN • Amanda Phillips, RN • Elena Raveica, RN • Shubpreet Sadhu, RN • Bonnie Ford Seabron, RN • Keatsie Swenson, RN • Ellen Tomson, RN • Virginia Villivert, RN • Caroline Ward, RN 2009 • SACRAMENTO • Donna Anderson, RN • Jamie Boozer, RN • Lloyd Dela Cruz, RN • Jackie Dio, RN • Jeffrey Fulmer, RN • Sindhu Jeffy, RN • Diane Louie, RN • Benymel Monje, RN • Antonio Munoz, RN • Loida Pangilinan, RN • Manjit Phagura, RN • Martin Romo, RN • Jocelyn Sanjonia, RN • Mary Stephens, RN • Merien Yoro, RN • SANTA ROSA • Robin Cracchiollo, RN • Tara Longinotti, RN • Gina Lucero, RN • Carrie McNulty, RN • Barbara Meringo, RN • Tina Millingham, RN • Carolyn Pooley RN • Debbie Snapp, RN • Lisa Quigg, RN • Kate Rowland, RN • Bona Yang, RN • ROSEVILLE • Michele Fox, RN • David Hatton, RN • Joel Abellanos, RN 2011* • OAKLAND • Siriwan Butsangle, RN • Benjamin Urruta, RN • Kebbie Wilbert, RN • Jacob Zannou, RN • REDWOOD CITY • Kathy Santos, RN • RICHMOND • Narida Espino, RN • ROSEVILLE • Robert Bergman, RN • Christina Calvo, RN • Maria Guerin, RN • Diane Schmidt, RN • Janelle Spanbauer, RN • SAN JOSE • Truc Ngo, RN • SANTA ROSA • Kathy Place, RN • Monica Sanchez, RN • Masto Somlith, RN • Sandra Steele, RN • SOUTH SACRAMENTO • Doris Harrell, RN • ANTIOCH • May Brown, RN • Robert Wahab, RN • FREMONT • Isela Magana, RN • FRESNO • Eric Domingo, RN • Rhonda Sgro, RN • MANTECA/MODESTO/STOCKTON • Carmina Lauren, RN • Jeanne Rough, RN • Gayle Wolf, RN • SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO • Clarita Delrosario, RN • Lanie Guiao, RN • VACAVILLE • Maria Festejo, RN • Stephani Nikas, RN • VALLEJO • Maria Gonzalez, RN • Norma Hidalgo, RN • Linda Jenkisn, RN • Angela Santiago, RN • Joe Sepida, RN • SACRAMENTO • Thomas Biewlawski, RN • Mary Ivy Chatto, RN • Maria Cheng, RN • Maria Meneses, RN • Kenneth Swartz, RN • SAN FRANCISCO • Noah Melehan, RN • Kharessa Marcos, RN • Bernie Farrell, RN • Douglas Everson, RN * As of March – April 2011