Phoebe Announces Latest DAISY Award Winners
Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital recently announced its latest DAISY Award winners. Candice Chapel, RN, Brenda Eggers, RN, and Sarah Estrada, RN, were honored last month as DAISY Award recipients. Additionally, Angie Korona, RN, was awarded the DAISY Nurse Manager Award.
The DAISY Award is an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skills and compassionate care given by nurses every day. Candice Chapel, RN, who works in Labor & Delivery at Phoebe’s main campus in Albany, was nominated for the award by a patient for her compassion and respect during a very difficult time.
According to the nomination letter, the patient’s water broke at 19 weeks. She was admitted to the hospital for IV antibiotics and rest. Everything seemed to be going well and then the patient realized she was losing her baby girl. “Candice was beyond amazing. She helped me not only physically but emotionally get through the events of the next several hours. She was there for me and my husband through the darkest moment of our lives,” wrote the patient.
Throughout the nomination letter, the patient stated that Candice went above and beyond caring for her and their baby girl. She showed respect and provided exceptional care. “No parent or family should ever lose their child and go through what we did but having Candice as our nurse was just what we needed to make it through the worst night of our lives.”
Brenda Eggers, RN, and Sarah Estrada, RN, were both awarded the DAISY award at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center. Brenda and Sarah were nominated by Lauren Turner because of their extraordinary kindness and compassion they showed her mother who had dementia. Lauren drove all the way from Bainbridge to be a part of the DAISY award ceremony held in early May.
Sarah is one of 44 International nurses currently working at Phoebe’s main campus in Albany and Phoebe Sumter. International nurses have played an important role in providing high quality care to patients as the health system continues to battle the nursing shortage. Over the last few years, four international nurses have been recognized with a DAISY award.
