Nursing faculty recognized with Daisy Award

Four faculty members in the ECU College of Nursing have been recognized as outstanding nurse educators by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
Mark Hand, Betty Lease, Becky Bagley and Dr. Mel Swanson received the Daisy Award.
The award was created by the Daisy Foundation and AACN to provide nursing schools with a national recognition program designed to honor teachers for their commitment and inspirational influence on future generations of nurses.
Hand is a clinical assistant professor in undergraduate nursing science, junior division. Lease is a clinical assistant professor in undergraduate nursing science, senior division.
Bagley is a clinical instructor and director of nurse-midwifery in the graduate nursing science department. Swanson is a professor in the doctoral program.
Honorees may be nominated by students, peers, clinical staff in affiliated practice sites and school administrators. Recipients are chosen by participating institutions. Each winner received a hand-carved Healer’s Touch sculpture, a Daisy Faculty Award pin, and a certificate.
The Daisy Foundation was established in 1999 by the family of Patrick Barnes, who died at age 33 of complications from Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura. In the hospital for eight weeks, his family was awed by the clinical skill and compassion they experienced from the nurses who cared for him and his family. After his death, they created a foundation to honor nursing excellence and research.
The AACN is the national voice for university and four-year college education programs in nursing representing more than 640 member schools.
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