Inpatient Care Nurse Kyla Hauger Receives DAISY Award for Exceptional Nursing Care
Today Brookings Health System honored Inpatient Care Nurse Kyla Hauger, R.N., with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses®.
Hauger was nominated by Mary and Wade Wentland whose daughter was one of Hauger’s hospitalized patients.
“As a parent, trusting someone else with your child’s care, especially during a life threatening medical situation, is one of the hardest things imaginable,” the Wentlands wrote in their nomination. “Kyla earned that trust completely. She cared not only for our daughter’s physical health but also for her emotional well-being, and she gave us peace of mind during a time filled with fear and uncertainty.”
Hauger received a certificate commending her as an Extraordinary Nurse. She also received a DAISY Award pin and a sculpture called, A Healer’s Touch, hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Zimbabwe.
In 2024, Brookings Health announced it was partnering with the DAISY Foundation to recognize the health system’s nurses and the extraordinary, compassionate care they provide patients and families every day. Any licensed or registered nurse employed by Brookings Health System who is involved with direct patient or resident care may be nominated for The DAISY Award. Nurses may be nominated by patients, families, medical staff and fellow employees. Nominated nurses should have made a special connection with the patient and family, serve as a role model for the nurse profession, function as an integral member of the team, commit to the highest standards of clinical care and went above and beyond.
The DAISY Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, established in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, by members of his family. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), a little known but not uncommon auto-immune disease. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System. The care Patrick and his family received from nurses while he was ill inspired this unique means of thanking nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families.
Nominations for The DAISY Award are gathered year-round. Those wishing to nominate a Brookings Health System nurse may do so online at brookingshealth.org/DAISY.