Maybeth is the epitome of a DAISY Nurse Educator. She has been an educator for many years and is a compassionate, respectful, professional nurse who is consistently putting everyone’s needs and wishes before her own. She is an excellent role model professional nurse who mentors others and shows them what a professional nurse looks like by her own behaviors. She has excellent interpersonal skills and has advocated for her department and for the learners by sharing concerns and issues with nursing leadership in a very respectful manner. She is passionate about education and makes learning fun. Maybeth has intervened when there have been orientees who haven’t been passing and assisted in getting the orientees moved to areas where they can be successful. She helped train the facilitators in education when the Nurse Graduate Residency Program was developed. She develops collaborative working relationships with the nursing leaders, the preceptors, and the orientees in critical care. As a former critical care nurse herself, she supports the staff when they are caring for very sick patients by ensuring they have the support that they need. In addition to overseeing the critical care education, she mentors new instructors and is a leader in the Nursing Education Department.

Maybeth is truly deserving of the DAISY Nurse Educator award as she demonstrates all of the qualities that are required for this award to influence learning and support frontline staff, including:
· Being a role model educator and professional nurse
· Showing enthusiasm for teaching, learning, and nursing that inspires and motivates learning and new educators
· Demonstrating interest in and respect for learners in a compassionate way
· Using personal attributes (caring, confidence, patience, integrity, and flexibility) and influences professional growth
· Is fair and unbiased in her treatment of individual students in a very supportive manner
· Having exceptional interpersonal skills and appropriate communication with all of the members of the interprofessional team in a respectful manner
· Develops collaborative working relationships with students and colleagues and is seen as a mentor to all of the other educators in her department.
In addition to all of the above, she role models her own behavior by recently becoming certified.

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It is truly an honor to stand before you today, the first day of Nursing Professional Development week, as we come together to celebrate excellence in nursing education. Congratulations to all the all the nominees who are putting in the hard work training our Nurse Residents, our Student Nurses, doctors, and everyone you have precepted and mentored. I have worked side by side with many of you and have been precepted by some of you. On behalf of NED, I would like to extend a huge hooray from our team to Grace & Alirio.

I remember Maybeth as a Student Nurse Worker in 9300 (old SICU for the newbies out there). She was the one who brought you a bed roll, and you didn’t have to ask. When I was bathing a patient, she would come to help, you didn’t have to ask. Patient was going to CT scan (yes, these were the days when the primary nurse did the transport, what is this Transport Team you speak of now??) and she was there, and you didn’t have to ask.

From there we were teammates, caring for traumas on night shift and she continued to teach. The new hire nurses, MD residents, the Attending’s, and me. Yes, even thought I had a few years’ experience on her, she taught me. How she interacted with the patients, and families, and her colleagues. I can’t explain it, Maybeth has a way of bringing light and happiness to everyone she comes in contact with. Her smile and demeanor are infectious.

Fast forward to 20XX when you joined EDCOS as an instructor. You had grown so much as a bedside nurse, preceptor, and mentor. You brought all that experience, along with your light and happiness to our team, your nurses in training. In 2018, DHS’s modality for the ICU training program transitioned to a more preceptor-based model versus the instructor being with the trainee for a whole shift. We recognized that this was going to be a huge change for our nurses. Maybeth took this as an opportunity to strengthen the amazing preceptors we have by creating a specialty Clinical Coach class for our preceptors. She thoughtfully developed this program making sure all they had the skills needed, and also maintain the rigor of the program. Through the years as equipment and treatments have changes, she has tweaked the class to stay up to date.
As a new Director, she has supported me and Team NED by doing little things to make our team stronger, and I didn’t even have to ask.