Fauquier Health Names DAISY Award Honoree PACU nurse receives honor after two previous nominations

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For more information: Heidi Jameson 
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WARRENTON, VIRGINIA, February 12, 2025 – April VanBuecken, RN, DNP, MHSA was named Fauquier Health’s DAISY Award Honoree for the fourth quarter of 2024. April has been nominated twice previously for the prestigious award. The DAISY Award celebrates and recognizes nurses by collecting nominations from patients, families, and co-workers. 

April, a Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) nurse, was nominated by a patient who had been under April’s care. “I am honored to nominate her in recognition of her extraordinary dedication, compassion and outstanding skill,” wrote the patient. “She exemplified the very essence of nursing excellence, providing compassionate, safe, patient-centered care to me during my time in the PACU. Her ability to empathize was remarkable, going above and beyond to ensure that I felt valued, heard and respected.” 

April began her relationship with Fauquier Health in 2018 as a nursing instructor with Shenandoah University, bringing nursing students to Fauquier Health for clinical rotations. Three years ago, April joined the nursing team at the hospital’s PACU. “I love interacting with people and providing them with the care they deserve. It gives me great pleasure to use the knowledge I have gained during my career to help them feel safe and comforted throughout their recovery. This includes educating them on their illness and how to care for themselves when they go home.”

April received her Bachelor’s Degree in nursing from the Medical University of South Carolina and went on to earn a Masters in Nursing Administration and a Masters in Health Services Administration from Armstrong Atlantic State University before earning a Doctorate in Nursing Practice from American Sentinel University in Aurora, Colorado.

Toni Maxwell, APRN, FNP-BC, Chief Nursing Officer at Fauquier Health praised April. “At Fauquier Health, our nurses are the best of the best. For April to have been part of our nursing team for only three years and receive two DAISY nominations and a DAISY award speaks to the extraordinary care she provides!”
About Fauquier Health
Fauquier Health is a community health system dedicated to high-quality, patient-centered care. Nationally recognized as a Top Hospital by the Leapfrog Group and accredited by the Joint Commission, Fauquier Health has achieved recognition as a Certified Primary Stroke Center, as a Center of Excellence for Joint Replacement and as an accredited Chest Pain Center. Fauquier Health includes a fully accredited, 97-bed acute care hospital; The Villa at Suffield Meadows, an assisted living facility; and multiple physician’s offices, including primary care, gastroenterology, general surgery, OB/GYN and specialty practices. More information on Fauquier Health is available online at www.FauquierHealth.org.

About The DAISY Foundation
The DAISY Foundation was created in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died at age 33 of complications of an auto-immune disease. Patrick received extraordinary care from his nurses, and his family felt compelled to express their profound gratitude for the compassion and skill nurses bring to patients and families every day. The DASY Award celebrates nurses in over 6500 healthcare facilities and schools of nursing around the world. For more information about The DAISY Award, visit DaisyFoundation.org.