Kingfisher High School 2008 graduate Krystian Richardson earned an award last month from a national foundation that recognizes excellence in nursing.

Richardson, a registered nurse and team manager in the Integris Baptist Medical Center’s emergency department in Oklahoma City, was presented with a Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses.

The award requires a nomination from a patient or family member and is presented at hospitals nationwide.

The daughter of Steve and Kim Sigl of Kingfisher, Richardson served as a nurse tech at Mercy Hospital Kingfisher from 2010 to 2012 while completing nursing school at Redlands Community College.

She became a licensed practical nurse in June 2012 and then a registered nurse the following year.

Richardson began working in the Baptist emergency department in February 2014 and was named employee of the month in August 2014.

She completed her bachelor of science in nursing in December 2015 while continuing to work fulltime.

She was named Baptist’s Nurse of the Year in 2017-18 and has been nominated twice by her hospital medical staff peers for the March of Dimes Nurse of the Year Award.

Richardson, 29, said she was inspired to become a nurse by the compassionate care she received from another county nurse, Whitney (Winters) Stroh of Okarche, during the birth of Richardson’s eldest child.

Now of Piedmont, Richardson has six children: Chloe, 9; Cooper, 8; Carly, 7; Chesney, 5; Casen, 4, and Caroline, 3.