Congratulations to Martha Gibbs and Kate Willis on receiving the DAISY Award!

Congratulations to Martha and Kate on winning the DAISY Award as a Dynamic Duo!  Our amazing nurses do life-saving feats everyday and are certainly Super Heroes!  This story demonstrates this in that their caring and compassion went above and beyond in their service to this patient!

Please take a moment to read their incredible story below:

A patient had been discharged from our unit on a drug called Tikosyn, an antiarrhythmic that is a serious medication that the patient can not miss a dose of.  The patient thought that he had picked this up at the lobby pharmacy but, a mistake was made and the patient did not receive it.  The patient called the unit panicked because he did not have the medication at home.  Lobby pharmacy was called, pharmacy realized that they had missed the tikosyn order and filled it for him to come and pick it up.  This patient lived alone, was on home oxygen and did not drive so he had no way of getting to the hospital to get the medication (not every pharmacy carries this medication). These two nurses took it upon themselves to go to the pharmacy, pick up the medication, and then delivered it directly to the patient at his home so that he would be able to take it that night.  This was after they had both worked 12-hour shift on the unit and neither one of them hesitated to do this.  They both saw that a patient was in need and did what was needed to be done to have a positive outcome for this patient.  This is just one of the acts that they do on a daily basis to provide the best care possible to our patients. and I felt they should be recognized for it.

Thank you, Cyndee Karnes, for your nomination for these two deserving nurses!