Jackie Gonzalez Email & Phone Number

Jackie Gonzalez is a widely regarded nursing leader with a career of innovation and quality/performance improvement in an environment of service excellence and patient/family directed healthcare. As Senior Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer/Patient Safety Officer for Nicklaus Children's Hospital. Jackie led the MCH nursing team in receiving the 2015 ANCC "Magnet Prize" for innovation as the 1st Children’s hospital and subsequently served on the Magnet Prize Committee for 4 years. The nursing department was nationally selected by Press Ganey for "Excellence in NDNQI and Nursing Quality". She led the achievement of ANCC Magnet designation in 2003, the fourth free-standing pediatric hospital nationally and the first pediatric hospital in Florida with re-designation again in 2008, 2013 and followed by a 4th successful designation in 2018. All patient care units achieved ANCC Beacon designation for quality outcomes. She has served on several national councils (Education Council and the MIS Council) for NACHRI (now CHA).Gonzalez is a contributing book and journal author and speaker. Most recently, Gonzalez published in The Journal of Nursing Quality (2019), “Evaluating the Humpty Dumpty Falls Scale: An International Multisite Study”; February issue of Nurse Leader Journal for “Good for Nurses, Good for Patients: Creating a Healthy Work Environment in a Pediatric Acute Care Setting (2020)”; and the May/June 2019 issue of Nursing Economics, “EntrepreNurses: Nursing’s evolving role in innovation strategy.” Select publications include works in the Encyclopedia of Family Health; Leading and Managing in Nursing (2019 and in press) in Maternal-Child Nursing. In 2009, her work in patient safety -“Squeaky Clean” - won recognition from the National Institute of Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ). Noteworthy achievements include selection by the Miami Chamber of Commerce as a Healthcare Hero. In 2007 and 2010 she was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush and Governor Charlie Christ to the Florida Center for Nursing Board of Directors. Ms. Gonzalez serves on the University of Miami School of Nursing & Allied Health's Visiting Committee. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and served on the Fellow Selection Committee. She also served as President of the Florida Organization of Nurse Executives and of The Nursing Consortium of South Florida. She also serves as a Board member of the Boys and Girls Club of Miami.

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