Casey McGovern, BSN, RN, a staff nurse from the Kelemen 10 unit at Cooper University Hospital, was the DAISY Award winner for January 2024. Casey\u2019s dedication to Cooper Nursing and the extraordinary care she provides to our Cooper patients earned her the following accolades.<\/p>\n
\u201cA family member was transferred from the ICU to this floor. She took care of them for many days while there.\u00a0She always asked the family if they needed something and how they were, even when she wasn\u2019t\u00a0our\u00a0nurse. Her compassion for her patients and families shows every time\u00a0we talked on the unit. It\u00a0is difficult to put into words the feelings\u00a0we have knowing she was her nurse. She always\u00a0greeted the family with a smile, which always put the family at ease. She always made sure the family was updated and understood the plan and if they had any\u00a0questions after they spoke to the physician. One day stands out, during the planning of comfort care, my sister came in to see her\u00a0and was very anxious and she was not her nurse but came right over putting a calming hand on my sister\u2019s shoulder as she asked about getting the chaplain\u00a0to come that night and she didn\u2019t\u00a0hesitate to say she would find out all the details and then came back to confirm the plan. She then\u00a0spent a few minutes with the family just talking.\u00a0I can\u2019t\u00a0think of a better deserving of this special nursing award than this nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"