Pi Chapter Partners With Daisy Foundation to Invite Qualified Daisy Awardees

 

One of the objectives in the Pi chapter strategic plan is to increase the focus on extending invitations to community nursing leaders.  Each board member is encouraged to invite at least two members per year. One of the members of the Pi board, who works with the Daisy Foundation, made a presentation to the board outlining the concept of inviting Daisy Awardees as community nursing leader members. The Pi chapter board of directors voted to pilot the opportunity and to evaluate the process and the number of invitation acceptances. The Pi president met with the dean of the school of nursing to outline the proposed project and to solicit feedback on the potential pros and cons of moving forward with the pilot.

 

Pi chapter partnered with the Daisy Foundation and a large metropolitan hospital to offer nursing leader membership invitations to qualified Daisy Awardees.  It is the policy of the Daisy Foundation to ask each hospital to determine the criteria for selecting Daisy Awardees. A review of the criteria at the partner hospital indicated that they were very rigorous and focused on high professional standards.

 

The project will be developed during the summer of 2016 and the first invitations will be extended in September of 2016.  Invitees will follow the nursing leader criteria set forth by STTI. Those accepting the invitation to membership will follow all STTI procedures.

 The Pi chapter induction is tentatively scheduled for mid-October. Pending the successful implementation of this project, other hospitals who participate in the Daisy Foundation program will be invited to partner with Pi chapter.

 

This presentation will provide the steps in planning the pilot project, developing the collaborative relationship with the pilot hospital, determining the review process of the

Daisy Awardees by both Pi chapter and the Daisy Award Committee at the pilot hospital, and, the methodology for extending invitations to STTI membership.