Nursing at South Miami Hospital

Transformational leaders achieve superior results through outstanding clinical knowledge, idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration.

Advocating for Patients

Through the efforts of a nurse-led team, the patient fall rate per 1,000 patient days was reduced, outperforming the national benchmark.

Through a leadership-driven initiative to keep patients safe, the Ecolab® Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring System was implemented to record hand hygiene events of all staff members entering clinical areas to reduce the rate of hospital-acquired conditions.

Structural empowerment involves the creation of a workplace environment that supports exemplary professional practice, organizational goals, collaborative relationships and staff knowledge and empowerment to achieve improved outcomes.

Professional Development

Aligned with South Miami Hospital’s nursing strategic goals, nearly half of our nurses are nationally certified in their specialty, and more than 80 percent have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Recognition

South Miami Hospital is a partner in The DAISY Foundation™, which honors our nurses (individuals, teams and nurse leaders) for demonstrating compassion, empathy, excellence in patient care and leadership. DAISY Award winners are celebrated within the organization and nationally through The DAISY Foundation™ website: A Patient Wedding (5P & CDU) | DAISY Foundation.

Patient and family-centeredness, inter-professional collaboration, evidence-based practice and high-quality patient outcomes are hallmarks of exemplary professional practice.

Professional Practice and Development

South Miami Hospital’s Professional Practice Model outlines the nursing structure, mission, vision and guiding principles needed to achieve excellent patient outcomes.

Patient Outcomes

The wound care unit practice council improved patient satisfaction by 50 percent by creating teaching tools that outlined wound infection symptoms and treatments and using the teach-back method.

Nursing Satisfaction

South Miami Hospital participates in the annual National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) RN Survey, which reveals how nurses feel about their work environment. Results of the most recent survey revealed high levels of nursing satisfaction in most units.

Culture of Safety

South Miami Hospital utilizes the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) to track nurse-sensitive indicators such as injury falls and hospital-acquired pressure injuries and benchmark the hospital’s performance against more than 2,000 facilities. For more than eight quarters, South Miami Hospital has outperformed the national benchmark for the majority of nurse sensitive indicators and units.

Nurses engage in evidence-based practice projects, research, performance improvement and innovations to incorporate best clinical practices and operational processes.

Library Services

South Miami Hospital’s library services offer robust resources to support employees who are conducting literature searches, publishing research, preparing presentations, creating staff education and researching evidence-based practice and process improvements.

Scholarly Publications

Scholarly Commons is an institutional repository created to collect, preserve and showcase the scholarly publications of Baptist Health with an internal and external access link:
https://scholarlycommons.baptisthealth.net/

Research Support

South Miami Hospital’s Research Council is led by a dedicated, PhD-prepared nurse scientist. Nurses are also supported by Nursing & Health Sciences Research Journal, a publication of Baptist Health that is produced by nurse scientists from Magnet-recognized hospitals in collaboration with higher education professionals. Since its inception, the journal has published a total of 49 articles related to research, evidence-based practice and performance improvement.
https://scholarlycommons.baptisthealth.net/nhsrj/

Nurse Research

South Miami Hospital nurses publish research studies to provide guidance and establish best practices in the field. Research studies published recently include:

• Wakim, N., Bermudez, N., & Sabogal-Rodriguez, C. C. (2022). Exploring Workplace Incivility and Bullying in Healthcare Workers in a South Florida Community Hospital. Nursing & Health Sciences Research Journal, 5(1), 4-18. Link:
  https://doi.org/10.55481/2578-3750.1136
• Salazar, S. E., Kahn, P., Costley, J., Linares, R., & Bermudez, N. (2022). Exploring Nurses' Confidence in Providing Support to Bereaved Families following Stillbirth Fetal Loss. Nursing & Health Sciences Research Journal, 5(1), 19-27. Link:
  https://doi.org/10.55481/2578-3750.1130

As a Magnet hospital, we measure and track processes and outcomes related to our nursing practice. “Empirical” refers to a result or outcome that has been validated by data to show that real change has occurred because of an initiative or process change.