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| Faculty Hazel Downing (left), Ed.D., MSN, RN,
receiving her award from Sarah Hanes (BSN ’16) |
Associate
Professor of Nursing Hazel Downing, Ed.D., MSN, RN, and recent graduate
Elizabeth Eichenberger (BSN ’16), received the DAISY Award and the DAISY in
Training Award, respectively. The awards were announced at Hawai‘i Pacific
University’s Spring 2016 BSN Pinning Ceremony, which was held on Monday, May 9
on the front lanai of Hawaii Loa campus.
The
family of the late J. Patrick Barnes formed the DAISY Foundation in 1999 to
remember and honor the nurses who cared for Barnes during the last few weeks of
his life. He was diagnosed with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura, an
auto-immune disease. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune SYstem.
The DAISY Faculty Award was established “to provide
colleges/schools of nursing a national recognition program that they may use to
demonstrate appreciation to their nursing faculty for their commitment and
inspirational influence on their students.”
The DAISY In Training Award “is designed to remind
students, even on (their) hardest days in Nursing School, why (they) want to be
a nurse.”
Part
of the award is a Healer’s Touch Sculpture, hand carved by artists of the Shona
Tribe in Zimbabwe. Read more about the significance of the sculpture here.
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Elizabeth Eichenberger (BSN ’16),
recipient of the DAISY in Training Award
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