Attention DAISY Honorees!
Excited to take your professional development to the next level? Here’s a great opportunity!
Since 2017, Careismatic Brands has been proudly helping extraordinary nurses advance their professional journeys by offering financial grants to DAISY Honorees. These grants, known as Conference Grants, help cover the costs of attending continuing education conferences. Nurses can use the grants toward the conference of their choice*.
Open to past and present DAISY Award recipients worldwide, this year’s Conference Grant is gratefully sponsored by Healing Hands, a Careismatic Brand, and The DAISY Foundation. More than 100 Conference Grant recipients (all DAISY Honorees) have taken part in a diverse range of conferences, gaining the necessary tools to further their careers and enhance their skills. ​
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Twenty Honorees will receive up to US$2000 towards conference expenses.
Giving back to the givers
Healing Hands, a leading medical apparel company and a Caresimatic Brand, was created after its founder was hospitalized, having suffered a massive heart attack and undergoing open-heart surgery. He received extraordinary care from his team of compassionate nurses who exceeded science and sensitivity expectations. In the spirit of celebrating extraordinary nurses, the Conference Grant program has awarded over $200,000 to more than 100 DAISY nurses in the U.S. and abroad.
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 and compassion Patrick and his family received from Nurses while he was hospitalized inspired the creation of The DAISY Award® for Extraordinary Nurses, a recognition program to celebrate and recognize nurses for their compassionate care.
In addition to the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, the Foundation expresses gratitude to the nursing profession with multiple recognition programs, by providing Honoree benefits, and by granting over $900,000 to nurses through several lines of grant funding.
