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Foundation Renews Commitment to the DAISY International Advocate Program
The Health Carousel Foundation proudly announces a grant to maintain and expand the DAISY International Advocate Program. These two organizations partnered to launch this unique program in May 2020 to increase the global reach of DAISY Foundation™ awards honoring nurses. The program operates in five countries today, and more than 100 nurses have been honored. The program will soon expand to seven additional countries.
“We are so grateful to the Health Carousel Foundation for their support in driving meaningful recognition around the world with DAISY. Thanks to them, skilled compassionate nurses who serve low-resourced communities are being elevated and celebrated with The DAISY Award.” — Bonnie Barnes, Co-founder, The DAISY Foundation
The DAISY International Advocate Program is active in Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and the Philippines, and all but the final listed country are included on the World Health Organization’s Health Workforce Support and Safeguard List of 2023, meaning they are all among 55 identified countries worldwide with the most pressing health workforce challenges. In particular, these countries have a density of doctors, nurses, and midwives below the global median of 49 per 10,000. In short, they have a severe health workforce shortage, making meaningful recognition programs that are proven to elevate health workforce retention essential.
“We have seen firsthand the power of meaningful recognition for nurses. Through this program’s ongoing support, we aim to bring DAISY to Ministries of Health, nursing councils, and schools of nursing across the globe that lack funding to conduct these meaningful recognition programs. We are proud of what we have accomplished collaboratively with the DAISY Foundation,” stated Andrew Lingo, executive director of the Health Carousel Foundation.
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About the DAISY Foundation
The DAISY Foundation is a not-for-profit organization established in memory of J. Patrick Barnes by members of his family. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), a little-known but not uncommon auto-immune disease. (DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System.) The care Patrick and his family received from nurses while he was ill inspired the creation of The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, an evidence-based means of providing nurse recognition and thanking nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families. Today, the Foundation expresses gratitude to the nursing profession internationally in over 7,300 healthcare facilities and schools of nursing in 44 countries through recognition programs that honor the super-human work nurses do wherever they practice, in whatever role they serve, and throughout their careers – from Nursing Student through Lifetime Achievement in Nursing and through the J. Patrick Barnes Grants for Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice Projects, Health Equity Grants and Medical Mission Grants. More information is available at http://DAISYfoundation.org.
Since our inception in 2004, Health Carousel has maintained its Light the Way initiatives, through which all our programs and activities promoting ethical recruitment practices and nursing sustainability globally have been funneled.
We are one of the largest U.S. healthcare staffing firms and have been awarded numerous industry awards, including Best of Staffing Diamond Award by ClearyRated and are listed on the Fastest-Growing US Staffing Firms by Staffing Industry Analysts.
Health Carousel and Health Carousel Philippines have received the status of Certified Ethical Recruiter by the Alliance for Ethical Recruitment Practices, a nonprofit organization that promotes the fair, transparent recruitment of global healthcare workers for employment in the USA. Health Carousel is a proud member of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance and has achieved the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission.
