Nursing assistant Buan earns Sunshine Award for compassionate care

DOVER — Bayhealth’s Maricel Buan, a certified nursing assistant at the Bayhealth Kent Campus, and has earned a Sunshine Award for the compassionate care she shows her patients.

The Sunshine Award recognizes the vital team members who support Bayhealth’s nursing staff and work closely together in order to provide compassionate care to patients.

The Sunshine Award is an extension of the DAISY Award “as daisies need sunshine to grow.”

During a hospital stay of any length, caregivers become a constant within a patient’s life. Ms. Buan became a rock for her patient during her six-day stay at Bayhealth.

Ms. Buan would listen to her patient with her heart and offered support that was “both practical and deeply compassionate.”

The nursing assistant is described as “beyond empathetic and consistently creates an environment that is comfortable for her patients.”

“My healing has been smoother and faster because of Maricel’s care and kindness,” said Ms. Buan’s patient and nominator. “It shows how a single person can have a great impact on others through genuine kindness, unwavering integrity, and professional competence.

“She has impeccable integrity and always does her job with a joyful smile and laughter. She is a ray of sunshine.”

Sunshine Award honorees are nominated by patients, visitors, nurses, physicians, and employees. Anybody who knows someone that deserves a Sunshine Award should visit Bayhealth.org/Sunshine and nominate them.