MICHELLE JAMES NAMED TGMC DAISY AWARD RECIPIENT
Date released: 6/23/2008
Nurses at Terrebonne General Medical Center are being honored with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. This award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform everyday. Mark Barnes and his family founded the award in 1999, and Terrebonne General Medical Center joins 37-other medical facilities honoring their nurses with this special award.
The TGMC February recipient is Michelle James, a RN on 4 North. James has been a part of the TGMC team since January of 2007, starting out as an LPN.
“I was so surprised when I was awarded the Daisy Award that I was rendered speechless. I feel so honored and blessed to have received such an achievement. Although I touched someone very special to be nominated for this award, I don't feel that I did anything special,” said James. “I was always taught by my parents to treat everyone as I want to be treated and that’s how I live my life, and it is the golden rule I follow in my nursing career. It gets hard sometimes and you want to throw in the towel, but you have to think this could be my family member lying in that bed and for that reason; I don't single out and treat any one patient better than the rest. To me they are all VIP (Very Important Patients),” said James.
This is one initiative of The DAISY Foundation, whose overall goal is to help fight diseases of the immune system. Additionally, DAISY has programs to help fund research to improve treatment and ultimately cure Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), contribute to bone marrow and blood drives and provide support for ITP patients and their families.