It’s National Nurses Week this week and Greene County Medical Center once again marked the occasion with the annual DAISY Award.

The DAISY Award is given to a nurse that shows extraordinary care. There were ten nominees for the bi-annual award and Acute Care Nurse Gina Geisler was selected as the winner. Any nurse can be nominated by a co-worker, medical center staff, a patient, the patient’s family or anyone in the community. Chief Nurse Executive Katie Heldt says they made a couple of new additions to the ceremony by inviting former medical center nurses who are now residents in the Long Term Care unit, as well as inviting another group of people.

“We invited those who nominated our DAISY nominees to come and read the nominations if they wanted to and if they were available to do so. That creates a little more buzz and it’s very meaningful when you’re a DAISY nominee and you have the person who nominated you reading the nomination itself. It’s a heartfelt thing.”

The special speakers included Christie Pope and Julie Tuel, who are nurses, along with their mother Becky Wolf, who is the Greene County Public Health Director.

The medical center conducts the DAISY Award ceremony twice per year. The full list of all the nominees can be found below.

Maria Bretey Long Term Care Nurse (4th nomination)

Brenda Groves Surgical Services Nurse (3rd nomination)

Allie Hamilton Utilization Review/Case Management (4th nomination)

Jeanne Hoening Long Term Care (3rd nomination)

Jill Juergensen Public Health (2nd nomination)

Heather Kinsey Surgical Services

Victoria McCool Long Term Care (3rd nomination)

Christie Pille (Surgical Services)

Jodi Schroeder Acute Care (2nd nomination)