South Miami Hospital Names Nurse of the Year

Jennifer Brooks, R.N., was recently named South Miami Hospital’s Nurse of the Year. Brooks, a nurse in the hospital’s Mother/Baby Unit, earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Barry University in December and is expecting a child in October. Then, during Nurses’ Week, May 6-12, she was chosen as the Unit Nurse of the Year for her department, positioning her to take the ultimate title as Nurse of the Year.

South Miami Hospital nurse Jennifer Brooks, R.N., is surprised by the announcement that she has been chosen as the hospital’s Nurse of the Year. Photo by: Mabel Rodriguez

Brooks began her nursing career at Baptist Hospital after graduating from Miami Dade College in 2003. At Baptist, she worked on a medical-surgical unit, fulfilling her requirements for the hospital’s advanced training program, but her dream was to work on an obstetrics unit. In May 2005, she transferred to South Miami Hospital and began her career caring for mothers and babies in their first few hours of life.