I would like to nominate Alyssa Munns for the DAISY Award. I have been a nurse for a while and have encountered only a few individuals of Alyssa character, superior practice, compassion, empathy, and support for her fellow peers. I feel that she is one of the overlooked individuals because she is so capable; she is only assigned leadership (charge roles) or our sickest patients (who are usually sedated; due to their complicated and tenuous clinical picture and are unaware of the individuals who are assigned to care for them). In leadership, she is assigned as our charge and has acted as a preceptor for our new sisters and brothers in the ICU. As charge she is knowledgeable, acting as a mentor and as a role model. For instance, when one of us asks questions, there is no ego. She will answer then look up our standards, teaching by information and by practice. When supporting our new nurses to practice, she will walk by and ask questions (not barge in and take over) about patient condition (she knows this, she has excellent charge notes) and gently guide with information and gentle suggestions. For the ICU, this individual is rare, to have the ability to support new staff with the intention to support growth and to maintain and support self-confidence and practice. She is one of my favorite charges, I feel that I have a superior resource and that I am fully supported whenever I work with her. She is the nurse's nurse. I feel that there should be an example to back up claims. There was a time when one of the other Swedish ICUs were severely short and we had to send someone to support. Staff at that time consisted of newer nurses to the ICU and those of us who did not have experience on CVICU or Neuro. She was charge that day and instead of choosing one of us to go volunteered due to her extensive experience. I was grateful because though I am experienced, I had only two years in the Surgical/Medical ICU and no experience with the specialized ICUs in the Swedish system. She took one for the team, and I overheard the conversation she had with the person who was coordinating this transfer that 'her nurses' were on the newer side and it made sense that she was to go since she had experience. I have since learned that she has done this several more times to support our staff. As for precepting, I was assigned a challenging preceptee. She advised me that the chatter on the unit was only that- chatter and that as a mentor, needed to assess her skills and support her in her transition to the critical care discipline. That all this noise in the unit should not distract me or influence me. Her former preceptees have only positive comments and are our best nurses. All her students have excelled. As for caring for her patients, she is the standard. She is an excellent pod mate, monitoring not only her patients but others. Offers a helping hand when needed and supports when our patients decompensate, keeping us all safe. I cannot emphasize how important I feel she is for our unit and how much important it is to acknowledge her value to us. I am hoping that you will help me with this.