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Volume 18 • Issue 11• $5.00 May 2022

THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS
OUR 18TH YEAR SERVING THE HEALTHCARE COMMUNITY!

Salute to Nursing

Nursing Consortium of Florida:

Bringing Nursing’s Future into Focus

BY DANIEL CASCIATO

Even through the height of
the pandemic, the Nursing
Consortium of Florida has been
busy convening its growing
membership to assess the effects
of the COVID pandemic on
nursing and develop strategies
for moving the nurse workforce
Maggie Hansen David Zambrana
forward.
“The COVID experience and
Growth and the sharp rise in the cost of Jean Seaver Maria A. Suarez UM School of
housing accelerated a genera-
Development Are tional shift that was already underway,” says Maria A. Nursing and
Suarez, DNP, MSN, APRN, ACNP-BC, Assistant Vice
the Keys to President, Nursing Administration at Baptist Health Miami Health Studies
Cancer Institute and President of the Nursing Consortium
of Florida. “During the last two years, many nurses moved
Retaining up retirement plans, and others have chosen to work less or Celebrates
work differently. The result is that hospital nursing in the
Specialized next decade will look very different than the nursing we’ve Alumnus David
been familiar with.”
Jean Seaver, MSN, RN, Associate Vice President, Learning
Nurses & Development for Broward Health and President-elect of Zambrana
Continued on page 37 Ralph Egües, Jr.
BY MAGGIE HANSEN, RN, MHSC, BSN BY ROBIN SHEAR

COVID-19 didn’t cause one of the South University: David Zambrana, Ph.D., D.N.P.,
largest nursing shortages in our indus- M.B.A., R.N., started his career as a staff
try’s history, but it certainly made it sig- A Look at Flourishing Nursing nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
nificantly worse. Today, he is executive vice president and
More than two years of arduous and Education from Both Sides chief operating officer for Jackson Health
high-volume patient care in previously System, one of the nation’s largest public
unimaginable circumstances has result- health systems. Recently, over 100 of
ed in a generation of nurses taking earli- BY BARBARA R. FALLON Zambrana’s peers gathered to celebrate
er retirement or transitioning into other his recognition as the University of
careers. That’s made what was already a Pre-pandemic approximately Miami School of Nursing and Health
challenging situation for healthcare lead- two thousand students and Studies 2022 Alumnus of Distinction.
ers into a critical fight to continue to their faculty took advantage of In her opening remarks, the School’s
deliver safe and effective care. Nothing the South University, Florida Dean, Cindy L. Munro, called Zambrana
less than the current and future health of campus academic portfolio - a “a true leader in nursing and health care,”
our patients hangs in the balance. full range of on-site, online, and adding, “I am so proud that you are one
We must get creative to respond to the remote learning undergraduate of our own, with two doctoral degrees
challenges of the workforce and that and postgraduate degree class- from us.”
begins with narrowing the knowledge es. So, when COVID-19 obsta- Zambrana, who earned doctor of nurs-
gap, the chasm between the increasingly cles threatened campus life and ing practice and Ph.D. degrees from the
complex patient care needs and the learning, South was prepared to Susan Hamley Dr. Sharon Ramjohn School of Nursing and Health Studies,
shrinking number of nurses who possess adapt their methods of teach- and teaches a health management course
the necessary knowledge and ability to ing and not only survived but flourished. there each Fall, exemplifies the potential
provide such care. In this journey, we Most importantly however, administrators and faculty recognized - before, during and for nurses to be transformational leaders
must embrace innovation – not only in after the pandemic - that it takes more than books and simulation labs and virtual pro- in their communities.
technology, but also improvements in grams to instill the ‘art and science’ of nursing in students. Faculty with clinical excel- “As a leader and influencer, I don’t see
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