From Staff Reports ADRIAN TWP. — A nurse at ProMedica Charles and Virginia Hickman Hospital has received an award for excellence in nursing. Jessica Nelson, a registered nurse in the emergency department at Hickman Hospital, is the hospital's first recipient of the DAISY Award for excellence in the nursing field. No nurse at Hickman's predecessors, Bixby Hospital in Adrian and Herrick Hospital in Tecumseh, won the award, ProMedica said. The DAISY Award, an international program, was founded by the DAISY Foundation, with the purpose to “recognize the extraordinary compassion, outstanding clinical skills and personalized care” that nurses show day in and day out, a news release said.