McLaren Central Michigan is proud to again recognize a member of its care team with a Daisy Award, a nationwide program to recognize outstanding nurses.
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program Coordinator Beth Nesbitt, RN, BSN, SANE-A, is the latest recipient of the honor.
“The Daisy Award is a regular and influential reminder that the heart of nursing is the courage, compassion, and commitment nurses bring to their patients each and every day,” said Jeannie Sage, McLaren Central Michigan Chief Nursing Officer. “It is our honor to recognize Beth, not only for her actions that led to this celebration, but for all nurses who chose this as their profession and calling.”
Winners receive a hand-carved Healer’s Touch Sculpture, bouquet of daisies, commemorative pin, and cinnamon rolls for the department.
Beth was recognized by one of her hospital colleagues.
Beth Nesbitt tirelessly cares and advocates for victims of sexual assault for not only Mt. Pleasant and Isabella County, but for several surrounding counties. Beth has enthusiastically welcomed the challenge of operating and maintaining this program with limited resources (and often stepping in to provide resources where there are gaps), while constantly pushing herself out of her comfort zone to learn new skills to support the program.
Beth has also gone great lengths to reassemble and revive the community's SART (Sexual Assault Response Team), which has given law enforcement, health care, advocacy groups, and other community resources a forum to collaborate to do what is best for victims at large. Outside of Administrative duties, Beth also takes her share of call to support the SANE program, and she works tirelessly to ensure victims that victims treated in McLaren Central Michigan's ER are given respectful, compassionate, and appropriate care.
There is so much at stake for these victims, and Beth and her team ensure the victim is properly examined and the case is documented in a manner that will hold up in court to hopefully provide some semblance of closure, all while keeping the victim's mental health a top priority as to not re-traumatize them. The work Beth has done has given our community (and the surrounding communities without a SANE program) an invaluable resource. We are incredibly fortunate to have Beth Nesbitt leading the charge for McLaren Central Michigan's SANE program.