Shayna Newman, registered nurse at Skiff Medical Center, was recognized for her dedication, patience, kindness and the professional care she provides during the organization’s first DAISY award ceremony of 2013.

The DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses was presented to Newman following nominations by her nursing director, Kris Hoyt, and a patient and her son.

“Shayna consistently makes her patient’s emotional needs just as important as their physical needs,” said Hoyt, reading aloud from the nomination she had written. “We recently had a young patient who had been hospitalized quite frequently. Shayna met this patient on his first day. She learned what his emotional goals were and in turn became his number one cheerleader. Even when she wasn’t working, but was at the hospital for in-service, she would stop in to cheer him on.”