ANMC nurse Joyce Martin earns DAISY Award
August 13, 2018
ANMC’s Magnet nurses provide culturally appropriate, family-centered care in a unique hospital environment, and they are constantly seeking ways to improve the services and care we provide. In an effort to further recognize our nurses for their outstanding work, ANMC partnered with the DAISY Award, an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by nurses every day.
Congratulations to ANMC DAISY Award winner, Joyce Martin, a SWAT RN in the Central Nursing Office was recognized at an impromptu award ceremony where she was presented with a certificate, a DAISY Award pin, and a hand-carved stone sculpture. Many of her night shift colleagues and ANMC leadership attended the ceremony to show their appreciation and support for Martin, who was surprised and thankful for the recognition.
“I believe ANMC is the best hospital in the state. I love working at ANMC as a SWAT nurse. It is fabulous to be recognized for doing something I love to do,” said Martin. “It really is the best job ever— I am so lucky to have found my niche. As a SWAT RN, I have the time to listen and do a good job and I get to check in on everyone and help out where I am needed. I can follow the patients from the time they enter the hospital and throughout their stay.”
Martin was nominated by two of her fellow nurses for her exceptional nursing and patient care, specifically for the way she handled a Code Blue (adult medical emergency) call on the unit she was working on.
One of her nominators wrote, “Joyce has always been an amazing nurse and goes above and beyond to help her coworkers out. She is always at the right place at the right time and always has a positive attitude. She does things without being asked and is always kind and compassionate toward patients and their families. The other night there was a code blue and she was the first to find the patient and kept her cool while comforting the patient in his last moments. She knew how to handle the situation and followed through with all the postmortem paperwork and what not. Joyce was a SWAT nurses that night and had no obligation to do everything she did but did it anyways without hesitation. She even talked to and comforted the family when she came in. Joyce is one of a kind and always brightens up whatever unit she is on.”
Martin has worked as SWAT RN at ANMC since 2015. She also previously worked on inpatient unit 5 East from 2003-2005.
Martin’s other nominator wrote, “Joyce is an amazing nurse in every way! I could tell so many stories about how she has gone above and beyond to help not only me but every nurse she comes across and most of the time she doesn’t even need to be asked, she just jumps in and does whatever needs to be done. If I had to pick one story it would be when she sat with a patient in his last few moments and calmly comforted him and his family making sure to say and do all the right things. She helped run the code blue and without being asked took care of all the steps that needed to be taken. This was just what the floor needed as we were all new nurses— she calmly guided us and showed me what being a kind and compassionate nurse means.”
The DAISY Foundation was established in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes, who died of complications of the autoimmune disease Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune SYstem.
Patients, their families and fellow ANMC staff can nominate nurses for DAISY Awards. Nomination forms and collection boxes have been placed throughout the ANMC hospital.
Subsequent honorees will be selected quarterly and each DAISY Award honoree will be recognized at a public ceremony in her or his unit or department. For more information about the DAISY Award program, please visit www.DAISYfoundation.org. For questions about nominating an ANMC nurse, please email Kimberley Carr at krcarr@anthc.org.