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Congratulations to the 2023 DAISY Winners!

September 27, 2023 The DAISY Foundation, as part of its dedication to recognize and lift up the nursing profession, established the DAISY Faculty Award as a national recognition program to show appreciation to nursing faculty for their commitment and inspirational influence on their students. Featured

Young Alumni Award Winner: Jonathan Friedman

September 21, 2023 Jon started college as a pre-med student. His dad and sister are both doctors and "that was all I knew," he says. "I liked science and I liked to help people." Featured

Young Alumni Award Winner: Victoria Faulkner

September 21, 2023 Growing up in rural Kansas, access to medical care was extremely limited for Victoria Faulkner, DNP, RN, and her family. "We had to learn to care for ourselves through nature and the land," Victoria explains. "So it became a natural transition to medicine." Featured

Distinguished Alumni Award Winner: Kathy Miles Donovan

September 19, 2023 Kathy Miles Donovan, MSN, BSN, RN, NE-BC, never imagined doing anything but nursing. But fate stepped in one day an opened the door for a leadership track. Today, this former flight nurse at St. Louis Children's Hospital is the senior vice president and system chief operations officer at Hospital Sisters Health System in Springfield, Illinois. Featured

Distinguished Alumni Award Winner: Brian Torres

September 19, 2023 Growing up, Brian Torres saw nursing expertise firsthand from his mother who was an Army nurse (and Lieutenant Colonel). "In high school, she set up a shadow experience for me with a CRNA (certified registered nurse anesthetist)," Brian says. Featured

Distinguished Alumni Award Winner: Nancy Raskas Agronin-Blonsky

September 19, 2023 From the day Nancy Raskas Agronin-Blonsky, RN, PA, Therapeutic Apheresis RN, graduated high school she was on a quest to learn more. Featured

Congratulations, Dusty Scheper!

September 14, 2023 At Goldfarb School of Nursing, our people make our school exceptional. For the first time, we partnered with The DAISY Foundation to show our gratitude to our instructors with the DAISY Award® for Extraordinary Nursing Faculty. Featured