Allison Hampton, RN, a float pool nurse at Hamilton Medical Center (HMC), recently received the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. The DAISY Award recognizes exemplary nursing excellence and is the highest honor a nurse can receive at HMC.

Hampton was nominated for the award based on her compassion, kindness, honesty, clinical expertise, emotional intelligence, reassurance, gentle approach, exceptional care and her comforting and attentive nature.

The award, presented in collaboration with The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform every day.

DAISY Award recipients receive an honorary DAISY pin, a banner to display on their unit, an award certificate, and the Healer’s Touch, a hand-carved sculpture by the Shona tribe in Zimbabwe. The sculpture is especially meaningful because of the profound respect the Shona tribe gives to their traditional “healers.” A Shona healer is affectionately regarded as a treasure by those they are caring for which describes exactly how the DAISY Foundation and HMC feel about nurses.

Eighty-one other nurses were also nominated for the award. They include: Miriam Trujillo, Lauren Roberts, Kristina Shaylitsa, Haleigh Parker, Tonnisha Rodriguez, Alise Runyan, Nyiesha Gingery, Brooke Alvarez, Danny Canales, Allen Thornton, Teresa Teasley, Karah Thompson, Summer Wilson, Angela Lopez, Katie Butler, Carlee Corbin, Nicole Queen-Garner, Nancy Wachira, Jose Brillo, Erika Paez, Jason Yarber, Mary Young, Skyler King, Brooke McCormick, Connor Sims, Luz Nunez, Amy Stafford, Lorraine Epperson, John Domingo Perez, Valerie Lawson, Cody McKinney, Brittany Moore, Sisi Mendez Jimenez, Cheryl Mitchell, Lance Patty, Anna Fleming, Emily Allen, Amanda Cargal, Ella Lance, Amy Neighbors, Diadem Monana, Kim Rich, Amber Hope, Tabitha Tinsley, Cheyenne Beckhusen, Kaitlynn Bryant, Anayelli Rosas, Sandi Killen, Jacob Whitener, Freddy Fairman, Ryan Gutierrez, Kim Ledford, Colin Doherty, Joann Johnson, Shelby Martinez, Melinda Jones, Jadea Fox, Bridget Pruitt, Nikki Taylor, Mayra Cisneros Ochoa, Leticia Mata, Katrina Longest, Brandy Southerland, Ashley Scruggs, Cassandra McAllister, Jaylene Triplett, Kay Crider, Crystal Ward, Payton Castillo, Zach Henson, Donna Ivy, Shelby Mdeiway, Muna Wagner, Lisa Murdoch, Kristi Clinton, Jaime Godfrey, Cassandra Cochran, Holly Cochran, Margarita Rangel, Emily Hensley and Victoria Middlebrooks.

The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, Calif., and was established by family
members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes. Barnes died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), a little known but not uncommon
auto-immune disease. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune SYstem.