I would like to nominate Linda Jackson for the DAISY award. I have worked with Linda since our hospital opened in 2008. Over the last two and half years, I have been routinely reminded how awesome the profession of nursing is by witnessing this nurse provide such wonderful care to her patients on a daily basis. She holds a bachelors degree from UTA which she obtained in 2003.
In addition to being a charge nurse in our nursery, she is also a clinical coach for new graduates and interns. She mentors these individuals with an endearing heart and provides them with an amazing platform to shine. Her ability to coach these new nurses has had a huge impact on retention in our hospital. The staff of our nursery also has a very fond liking of her as she has such an affable personality.
This nurse is a volunteer for Mercy Heart, a community organization whose mission is to move families and children in the crisis of incarceration towards a spiritual, relational and material transformation.
She mentors the children to shine in academics and acts as a moral compass to them. Children of the incarcerated are six to eight times more likely to exhibit delinquent behavior. She acts as a role model offering care and compassion in the absence of a parent, and for the remaining parent. She is a volunteer for Como Kids for summer, providing the socially economic challenged group with education and mentoring during their summer break. : In addition to being a charge nurse and a clinical coach, she is also one of our magnet champions and a member of the behavioral interview panel.
She is well admired by the staff as she truly serves as a great leader in more ways than one. She goes above and beyond in developing her coworkers and goes the extra mile to support them in obtaining personal achievements. She is a certified maternal-newborn nurse and shares her immeasurable depth of knowledge with less seasoned nurses as well as with new moms.
Compassionate Caregiver: Our moms love this nurse. It could be because she is a mother herself or it could be because she is just a natural born caregiver. She has the smile of an angel and is always showing it. She received our hospital award, the Service Excellence Award, from our president. A family had written him a note, sharing a story about the wonderful care this nurse rendered to their infant and the new mom.
Linda is a certified Touchpoints Educator. This faculty level training provided at Harvard Medical School in Boston is to equip professionals with tools for creating partnerships with parents in order to enhance the quality of care they provide to families with small children.
She was responsible for the instruction of the entire Women’s and Children’s division at a community hospital. I hope you will consider this wonderful nurse as a DAISY nurse. She truly is not only a spectacular nurse but a wonderful coworker and person to know.