Nursing at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital

Our vision for HCA Florida Palms West Hospital is to promote a culture of excellence by elevating nursing to its highest form. This vision reinforces our commitment to nursing, acknowledges the strong foundation that we have built, to continue to evolve and move forward. We will continue to invest in our nurses through growing our leaders and advocating for our teams by establishing safe work environments, creating pathways for furthering education, certifications, and implementing evidence-based practices. Championing a care first culture where nurses are empowered to support high quality of patient care through professional practice councils and nursing research is the key to setting us apart. 

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Shared governance is a system that promotes inclusive and shared decision-making among nurses in an organization. It is based on principles of partnership, equity, accountability and ownership. It aims to foster cooperation, leadership, creativity and quality in our Hospital.

Professional Practice Councils are decision-making bodies in which nurses participate in determining nursing specific goals and priorities and make decisions to affect nursing practice, patient care or other aspects of professional practice. These councils are comprised of interdepartmental teams which represent nursing units and departments within the hospital as well as varying levels of education and specialties. The unit councils come together to help govern nursing practice at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital.

Nurse Leadership Council (NLC):

Supports nursing autonomy and professional growth, fosters engagement among nursing teams, hardwires evidence-based process to improve patient outcomes, designs and supports professional “thinking” in nursing which supports theoretical framework for change, improvement of care delivery and empowerment of nurses.  Purposefully designs a culture which promotes the nursing strategic plan. Standardizes methods to empower nursing practice to promote excellence in patient care delivery and outcomes.

Nurse Resource Council (NRC):

Responsible for the identification of resource needs and removal of barriers for the nursing departments to ensure that their requests are met, as applicable.  This enables the seamless delivery of patient care.

Patient Care Tech Council (PCT Council):

Empower PCTs and Nurse Techs to exercise their voice and advocate to influence positive change that will impact work flow and create positive, healthy work environments.

Clinical Nurse Coordinator Council (CNC Council):

Empower nurses assigned to the CNC role to exercise their voice and authority to influence positive change. CNCs will facilitate shared leadership activities that focus on unit-based processes, instill a positive morale on their unit, and foster retention.

Nurse Quality & Safety Council (NQ&S Council):

Review nurse sensitive quality and safety indicators. Empower nurses to assist in finding evidence-based practice resolutions to improve quality and safety of our patients. Ensure evidence-based interventions are implemented and adapted throughout the nursing continuum to improve care delivery.   

Professional Practice, Education & Nurse Research Council (PPC): 

Support exemplary professional practice through the attainment of education, national nursing certification, advancement of degrees, and involvement in professional nursing organizations. Provide a forum for review of evidence-based practice, research and nursing quality data to create change and promote healthy work environments which enables safe, high quality patient care.

Unit Based Councils (UB Councils):

Advocate for change at the staff nurse, unit level which will positively impact work flow, the work environment, nurse sensitive indicators, patient experience, and nursing satisfaction.