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Miami Children's Hospital is a proud recipient of the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence, an award given by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). The award is specifically designated to recognize the nation’s top pediatric, progressive, and adult critical care units across a multitude of hospitals. The recognition itself is priceless, as it represents extraordinary commitment to high-quality critical care standards, and dedication to the exceptional care of patients and their families.

As a Beacon Award recipient, Miami Children's Hospital succeeded in the following areas, as measured against evidence-based national criteria:

• Recruitment and retention
• Education, training and mentoring
• Research and evidence-based practice
• Patient outcomes
• Leadership and organization ethics
• Healing environment

 2011 Awards

Miami Children's Hospital March Of Dimes 2011 Miami-Dade and Monroe nurse of the year Finalists and Winners

• Annalyn Velasquez, ARNP, MSN, CPNP, CCRN, won the Critical Care/Surgical Services category
  
• Raquel Pasaron, ARNP, DNP, FNP-BC won in the category of advanced practice.

• Cindy M.Ayala, RN, MSN, CPN
• Patricia Dean, ARNP, MSN
• Jo Ann Nieves, MSN, CPN, ARNP, PNP-BC, FAHA
• Elena Ortega, ARNP, MSN, CCRN
• Raquel Pasaron, ARNNP, DNP, FNNP-BC

Case Management/Care Coordination/Managed Care

• Maytee Perdomo, RNN, AS
• Clinical & Academic Education
• Laura Hernandez, ARNP, MSN, CPN, FNP-C
• Janice Serrano, RN, BSN

Critical Care/Surgical Services

• Lorna Allen, RN, BSN
• Holda Delavoe, RN
• Melinda Duran, RN, BSN
• Claudia Martin-Shimizu, RN, BSN ,CNOR
• Miriam Prado, RN
• Annalyn Velasquez, ARNP, MSN, CPNP, CCRN

Emergency/Trauma

• Holly Olsen-Aloi, RN, BSN

Leadership-Executive

• Jane Bragg, RN, MSN,MBA
• Mirtha Gonzalez, ARNP,MSN

Leadership-Managers

• Diana Garcia, RN, MSN
• Flor Tena, RN, MSN

Pediatric/Adolescent Health

• Erica Pardo, RN, MSN

• MCH’s Patricia Dean to Receive American Epilepsy Society’s 2011 J. Kiffin Penry Award
  
  The American Epilepsy Society (AES) has announced that Patricia Dean, ARNP, MSN, a pediatric nurse practitioner and Clinical Coordinator of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at Miami Children’s Hospital, has been named recipient of this year’s J. Kiffin Penry Excellence in Epilepsy Care Award.
  
  
• Jackie Gonzalez, ARNP, MSN, NEA-BC, FAAN, Senior Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer, Was inducted on November 4th as President -Elect 2012 of Florida Organization of Nurse Executives (FONE).  Congratulations!

September 2011 - Bing Wood recognized by the South Florida Organization of Nurse Executives as Nurse leader of the Year

1. FNA, Nursing Administrator of the Year, Jackie Gonzalez, MSN, ARNP--Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer
2. FNA, Nurse Practitioner of the Year, Raquel Pasarón, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC

1. Laura Hernandez: Nurse Educator Award—Winner
2. Diana Garcia: Nursing Administration Award—Winner
3. Raquel Pasarón: Advanced Practice Nursing Award—Finalist
4. MCH Nursing Team (Jackie Gonzalez)--Community Action Award—Finalist
5. MCH NICU Nursing Team--Promotion of Excellence Award—Winner

Society for Pediatric Nursing 2011 National Conference in Las Vegas, NV -- Maria Soto, MSN, ARNP, Carmen Duque, MSN, ARNP, Dr. Simpser/2nd place (Clinical Practice Award) - “Caring for the Ventilator Dependent Pediatric Patient in a Medical Surgical Unit” (Poster).

JoAnn Nieves, MSN, ARNP, PNP-BC-on April 30, 2011, was elected as a Fellow of the American Heart Association by the leadership committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young. 

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