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 elcome to the website of the Nursing Consortium of South Florida.
The Nursing Consortium of South Florida (Consortium), founded in 1997 as the South Florida Nursing Shortage Consortium, has more than 50 dues-paying member organizations including hospitals and other providers of nursing services, nursing schools, nurse staffing agencies, nursing publications, and foundations. The Consortium's mission is to identify and address factors causing a nursing shortage throughout South Florida; from the Florida Keys to north Palm Beach County including the state's largest urban population centers and the rural communities of Glades
and Hendry counties. It alone unites nursing practice and education to address the area's need for culturally and technically competent nurses, by cultivating interest in nursing careers among middle and high school students, by improving the public perception of nursing, and by supporting increased funding for nursing education and for the implementation of strategic interventions and research aimed at establishing best practices in the recruitment, development, and retention of a quality nursing workforce. The Consortium's signature programs include the Day in the Life of a Nurse® program (DITLOAN), introduced as a way of exposing high school students to the real work nurses do, high school Future Nurses Clubs, through which interest in nursing careers is fostered, and a regional computerized clinical placement system which maximizes the use of available clinical training venues. Quarterly Consortium programs are forums for educating members on initiatives proven successful within our region and in other parts of the country, new study findings, and for educating and learning from elected officials, students, and other groups. Members and key constituencies are also informed through communication services that include periodic electronic newsletters and press releases..
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 The Consortium's June General Membership Meeting took place on the 29th at Cedars Medical Center. University of Miami Dean Nilda Peragallo, DrPH, RN, FAAN, made a presentation on the school's leading research of Hispanic health disparities and used the event to announce plans for "El Centro" the new National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies. Attendees arriving early took a tour of the hospital prior to the Dean's remarks and afterwards enjoyed lunch in an adjacent room where and update on the Consortium's work was provided by President-Elect Silvia Stradi, Board Member Evelyn Gonzalez-Morlote, and Executive Director Ralph Egues. Also during lunch, the Consortium recognized two founding Board Members. In recognizing Pam Hardesty, Chief Nursing Officer of Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, and Jane Mass, Chief Nursing Officer of the Jackson Health System, Consortium President-Elect and Cedars Medical Center Chief Nursing Officer Silvia Stradi remarked, “Today the Consortium is recognized as a leading advocate for the concerns of nursing leaders and the principal entity that brings together nursing practice and academia from throughout the region. With our agenda continuing to evolve and touching every phase of the nursing workforce from high school through retirement, and with our successes attracting the attention of nurse leaders from throughout the state and as far away as Philadelphia, it is important that we honor those who helped lay the foundation for the work that we are doing today.” Both Mass and Hardesty served on the Consortium’s Board of Directors for more than five years and were instrumental in helping to establish many Consortium programs and recruit members. To view event photos, please click here.
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The South Florida Organization of Nurse Executives and the Nursing Shortage Consortium of South Florida are jointly presenting
Best in Class: Elements of Success
"A Showcase of Nursing Excellence"
NOVA Southeastern University
3200 S. University Drive
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33328
May 19, 2006
This special day long program will showcase South Florida innovations in Recruitment/Retention Strategies, Safety Initiatives, Cost-effective Care Delivery Models, Employee Satisfaction Strategies, Leadership Training, JCAHO Compliance:(restraints/pain mgmt/advance directives/competency assessments), PI Programs, Nursing Compensation Models, Patient Satisfaction, innovative care delivery models and other success stories!
  We are also pleased to announce that Representative Denise Grimsley, RN and Representative Ellyn Bogdanoff will be with us that day and will moderate a town hall meeting of South Florida nurse leaders as part of the program.
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More than six hundred high school students participated in A Day in the Life of a Nurse™, the shadowing program developed by the Nursing Shortage Consortium of South Florida. A total of 25 hospitals and 45 high schools participated this year in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Hendry Counties.
"Each hospital tailors the experience to their unique setting, but generally the day starts with a welcome and a brief overview of what is planned, and the students complete a pre-experience survey that measures their knowledge of and attitudes towards the nursing profession,” explained Claudia Distrito, NSC-SF President. Students then go to various hospital units and get to see what nurses really do. In addition to shadowing nurses, students at some hospitals learned about nursing through thought provoking questions and answer sessions, trivia games, and factoids.
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Florida hospitals experienced a small upswing in the number of vacant registered nurse positions and in turnover, according to the 2005 FHA Nurse Staffing Survey. The agency released its latest findings in a recently issued report, 109 Florida hospitals reported 2,824 open RN positions, reflecting a nursing shortage or vacancy rate of 8.5 percent, up from 8.2 percent one year earlier. Turnover rates climbed to an average 12.2 percent in 2005, from 10.8 percent in 2004.
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Congratulations to the following members that have been elected to the Board of Directors of the Nursing Shortage Consortium of South Florida.
Evelyn Gonzalez Morlote, RN, MSN
Nurse Recruiter - Nursing Administration
Mercy Hospital
Karin Lillis
Regional Editor
ADVANCE Newsmagazines
Gloria McSwain, RN, MSM, CNAA
Director Patient Care Services
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Robin C. Petit, RNC, MSN, ARNP
Coordinator, Clinical Education
North Broward Hospital District
Lisa Quintero RN MSN CNA BC
Director of Nursing, Critical Care & Telemetry Services
Memorial Hospital West
Steven Seeley RN, BA
Executive Director Inpatient Services
Holy Cross Hospital
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