The DAISY Award

Daisy Individual or Team Award

All Nominations Welcome!
The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses was created to ensure that nurses know how deserving they are of our society's profound respect for the education, training, brainpower, and skill they put into their work, and especially for the care that they share with patients and families

DAISY Award honorees personify UCLA Health's remarkable patient experience. These nurses consistently demonstrate excellence through their clinical expertise and extraordinary compassionate care, and they are recognized as outstanding role models in our nursing community.

DAISY Award recipients are registered nurses who exemplify the nursing values: Extraordinary Compassion, Respect, Excellence, Discovery, Integrity, and Teamwork in the work they do daily. 

Daisy Nurse Leader Award

Staff Nominated
The DAISY Nurse Leader Award recognizes nurses who are extraordinary in the impact they have on compassionate patient care. Honorees can be any UCLA nurse leader who impacts patient care directly including supervisors, managers, educators or nurses who specialize in case management, informatics or patient flow.

This Nurse Leader impacts staff and/or the patient care they manage by:

• Role modeling extraordinary behavior    
• Creating an environment where attributes of trust, compassion, mutual respect, continued professional development and ethical behavior are modeled and supported
• Motivating staff with a shared vision and enthusiasm to achieve better outcomes for themselves and for their patients
• Promoting and enhancing the professional practice of nursing within UCLA, the community and the profession

DAISY Lifetime Achievement Award

Staff Nominated
Nominees must have at least 25 years of experience with UCLA Health and/or have received a Daisy Award prior to this nomination (search for past Daisy Award winners - be sure to complete "name" and "facility" when searching). Nominations must include evidence of at least three of the following five criteria:

• Distinguished career as a nurse in clinical practice, administration, education, and/or research that promote a positive image of professional nursing
• Demonstrates and actively engages in the professional development of self and others in the nursing profession
• Serves as a role model and advocate for nursing practice and the advancement of nursing as a professional
• Advocates for the improvement of patient care and serves as an exemplar for enhancing the patient experience
• Recognized by the broader nursing community as a transformational nursing leader