Kristen Pallante, RN, a registered nurse at Temple University Hospital-Main Campus, recently received a DAISY Award for the level of care she provided for a patient who had been on her unit for four months.
Pallante earned a nomination for the DAISY Award from an anonymous colleague who remarked that Pallante “went above and beyond.”
“She consistently took extra steps to ensure (the patient) never felt like just a long-term patient, but truly part of our family,” the nomination read. Once (the patient) received permission from his care team, Kristen took him outside every shift she could. ... All he wanted was fresh air. They would sit outside, talk, and share bags of Skittles.”
As the patient prepared for discharge from TUH-Main, Pallante gave her patient “the clean shave he had been asking for,” the nomination form continued. “She shaved his beard and even gave him a goatee.”
About the DAISY Award
Hospitals and health systems have been recognizing exceptional nurses for compassionate and skilled care by conferring DAISY Awards for more than a quarter-century. Created in 1999, the DAISY Award honors the memory of J. Patrick Burnes, who died from an autoimmune disease. Moved by the clinical skills, caring, and compassion of the nurses who cared for Patrick, the Burnes family created the DAISY Award international award to say thank you to nurses everywhere. DAISY stands for diseases attacking the immune system, the affliction that claimed Patrick’s life.
Read more about other Temple Health nurses who have recently won DAISY Awards, including Maryellen Bower, Patricia Loeber, and Brandon Everett.