Army Captain Mark Casey (’17), RN, BSN, was honored with the DAISY Nurse Leader Award® from the DAISY Foundation. Serving in the Army as an RN since 2019, Mark is currently stationed in South Korea, working at the Brian D. Allgood Army Community Hospital at Camp Humphreys.
Captain Joseph Arellano, director of the Emergency Department at Allgood, nominated Mark for the award.
“Captain Casey is an excellent leader and compassionate team member, always raising the morale of the team when he is on shift,” Arellano said in his nomination. “He usually works as a charge nurse and will double down and assist with triage secondary to staffing shortages. He always finds time to assist with patient care, taking patients into fast-track rooms to assist with the flow of the department and ensuring patients receive timely care. There have been many times when his compassion and empathy for patients have assisted me with more timely patient care and allowed others around him to be more compassionate to the patients in a busy emergency department.”
Mark loves being on the frontline of medicine and interacting with patients and staff to accomplish healthcare goals.
“I feel energized after working with these amazing medical professionals at the end of every shift,” he said. “I don’t feel deserving of the award, although I am honored to receive it. Countless other nurses work tirelessly as they provide excellent care to the patient population. While I serve as a charge nurse and the nursing supervisor, I can never support my team enough. I am always impressed by the dedication and selfless service of the nurses serving with me.”
Mark joins the ranks of many MNU nursing graduates and faculty who have received a DAISY award. Congratulations, Mark. Thank you for your service and how you represent MNU graduates.
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About The DAISY Foundation
DAISY is an acronym for diseases attacking the immune system. Honoring Nurses Internationally in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, it was the first program of its kind to give patients, families, and co-workers a way to express their gratitude to nurses for what they became nurses to do—provide compassionate care to patients and families. Since its founding, the DAISY Award® has become a strategic tool for nurse recruitment, retention, and resilience adopted by thousands of healthcare organizations and schools of nursing in the U.S. and worldwide.
