The Greene County Medical Center held it’s bi-annual DAISY Award ceremony Wednesday during National Nurses Week.

The first recipient of 2019 went to Surgical Nurse Brenda Groves. There were three other individual nominations, along with the entire acute nursing staff. The award is given to a nurse that shows extraordinary care. Groves has been a nurse for 18 years and has been working in the surgical department since 2002. She described her reaction to receiving the award and why she continues to be a nurse.

“I feel really humble. I just feel really humbled and honored. It’s in my blood, it’s in my bones. I don’t know who I would be without that.”

The ceremony started with the “Blessing of the Hands” with Charlene Wolf leading a prayer and telling the audience how nurses hands are instruments of healing. The featured speaker was the medical center’s Occupational Nurse Practitioner Rochelle Guess. She talked about her experiences of nursing on medical mission trips to ten different countries.

Chief Nurse Executive Katie Heldt congratulated Groves on winning the award and appreciates the work that all the nurses do at the medical center.

“We are just very pleased that we have as many nurses as we have in our facility and they all do a great job every single day.”

The other nominees included: Long-Term Care Nurse Stacey Biggart, and Acute Nurses Abby Skoglund and Jodi Schroeder. The next DAISY Award will be presented in the fall.