This award celebrates student nurses whose actions demonstrate caring commitment to the nursing profession and promotion of positive social change to improve health outcomes. The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Students is designed to remind students, even on the hardest days in nursing school, why you want to be a nurse. By recognizing nursing students for above-and-beyond care and compassion, we celebrate what it truly means to be a nurse. The DAISY Award is an international recognition program started in memory of J. Patrick Barnes.