It is with great pleasure that I nominate Dr. De Natale for the DAISY Faculty Award. She exemplifies all of the wonderful criteria outlined on this award application. Dr. De Natale serves as an exemplary role model for professional nursing and consistently demonstrates care, concern, and respect for all of her students (and patients) and provides inspirational influence of all of us at USF. Despite her long commute, she is fully present for her students and her colleagues, always going the "extra mile" to be sure that everyone is taken care of.  If something needs to be done, regardless of what it is or when, Dr DeNatale is at the front of the line, offering her support and assistance.
I could write about hundreds, probably thousands, of examples of her care and compassion. But here 's a recent one that illustrates what a role model she is for all of us. 
Dr. De Natale nominated a psych nursing student for the Frances Monet Carter Psychiatric Nursing Award, given out annually at SONHP graduation.  The nominations were voted on and the student won the award.  Somehow, the student was not given the purse that goes along with the award. Dr. De Natale called Dr. Carter and arranged a special lunch. The student was able to meet and have lunch with the extraordinary nurse for whom the award was named.  Dr. De Natale was determined to have the student feel special and deserving of his award, but much more than that occurred. The student got to meet Dr. Carter and learn why the award was developed: to honor a psychiatric nursing faculty member that had been a leader in the discipline of psychiatric nursing, had been elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), and notable, was the first woman faculty member at USF.  Dr. Carter had the opportunity to meet an exemplary student who embodied the values so necessary for psychiatric mental health nursing and to know that her work lives on in a wonderfully caring, compassionate psychiatric nurse.