I nominate Brandi Lovering as a deserving recipient of the DAISY award. She gave great compassionate care and significantly exceeded my greatest expectation of a nurse.

On many occasions, I've been Brandi's CNA. Every time I work with Brandi, she toliets patients, ambulates patients as well as washes them and even braids their hair, even if she doesn't have the time - she makes the time. She'll never delegate something to me (such as washing a patient or ambulating them, tasks that are "beneath" a nurse in many eyes) unless she honestly doesn't have the time to do it. She is the hardest working nurse I know.

There was one day that we had a patient for 2 days together. This particular patient had his spouse on a different floor in the hospital. He was in such a sad spirit because he was so worried about his wife, and although his ambulation order was bedrest or a hoyer, Brandi encouraged me to help her work to get him up into a wheelchair. She took the time to call his doctors and arranged all of his tests so that he could have a free spot of time to go up to the ICU to see his wife, she also used the time she should have been on break to take this patient to see his wife.

Later that day, while said patient was in a minor surgery, his wife passed away, after he was told he said he wanted to see her. Brandi waited until our shift was over, and when she could have gone home and delegated the task to the oncoming nurse, she brought him to see his wife past her shift.

Brandi is by far the most compassionate nurse that I have ever come across in my years of working as a CNA, she is the most deserving of this award in my eyes. Everyday she expresses random acts of kindness that she doesn't have to do. She goes out of her way when she doesn't have the time, and doesn't do it for the glory or the thank you, but simply because she loves her job.