Albany DAISY Award Celebrates Brittany Sellers’ Patience & Kindness November 12, 2025 Samaritan Albany General Hospital has partnered with The DAISY Foundation to recognize extraordinary nurses for the compassionate care they provide to patients and families every day. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System. Brittany Sellers, RN, has worked at Samaritan Albany General Hospital for seven years in the Women’s Center. She enjoys her work so much that she’s encouraged family members who are also RNs to join the Samaritan team. She was nominated by a grateful patient who praised her for her compassion and positivity. The nominator stated:“Brittany was my nurse for most of the daytime shifts while I was in the labor and delivery unit. She provided a huge amount of encouragement and support. My labor and delivery was not easy. I pushed for two to three hours and she was by my side the whole time, cheering me on and providing encouragement. When the decision was made to perform a cesarean section, she helped keep my spirits up, reminding me that I was about to meet my daughter and to stay positive despite the change in birth plans. After the birth and delivery, she provided care for myself and my daughter. She spent endless hours helping us learn to breast feed. Her kindness, patience and dedication to us as her patients will not be forgotten and deserves to be recognized.” Carrie Durkee, Sellers’ supervisor, describes her as a nurse who is dedicated to her patients and team, always striving to make things better. “Brittany is a nurse who loves what she does,” Durkee said. “She’s always so supportive during what is one of the most important days in most people’s lives. She is caring and compassionate and is excited for the new family that just began. Brittany is also kind and tender hearted, always giving her all, no matter what kind of patient she is caring for that day, whether it be a labor patient, sick pediatric kiddo or a fresh surgical patient – she gives excellent care no matter what. She’s one of the shining stars on the Women’s Center team!” A ceremony was held to honor Sellers and the PRIDE — passion, respect, integrity, dedication and excellence — she shows in her work. She was celebrated by her colleagues and even had to leave to assist with a delivery right after receiving her award. She was presented with a certificate, DAISY pin and a beautiful Healer’s Touch statue created by an artist in Zimbabwe, which symbolizes the relationship between nurses, patients and families. Along with the public recognition, DAISY award winners receive financial discounts for nursing certification training, reduced tuition for continued education, conference scholarship opportunities and are eligible for the national DAISY Award. The DAISY Award was established by the family of J. Patrick Barnes to “honor the super-human work nurses do for patients and families every day wherever they practice, in whatever role they serve and throughout their careers, from student through a lifetime of achievement.” To learn more, visit DAISYfoundation.org. To nominate an extraordinary Samaritan nurse, go to samhealth.org/DAISY.
