Berkeley Medical Center’s Nurse Work Life Council named Megan Clark, a registered nurse in the orthopedics unit, as the recipient of the DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses for the first quarter 2015.
The award was presented to Clark during a recent ceremony at the medical center. She received a certificate along with a sculpture called A Healer’s Touch, hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Africa.
The DAISY award was established nationally to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform every day. Nurses at University Healthcare’s Berkeley Medical Center and Jefferson Medical Center are being honored throughout the year with the DAISY Award. The awards are being sponsored by the two University Healthcare foundations.
The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, CA and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), an auto-immune disease. 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.
