The Joseph F. Cullman, Jr. Institute for Patient Experience
A School-Based Nurse Practitioner Receives a Letter That Prompts Tears of Joy
Tammy Powell, CPNP, MSN, is a nurse practitioner in the Mount Sinai Health System school-based health centers program, which serves young people who might otherwise not get services. In the school settings, young people can get physical and sexual health care, in...
Nursing Plays a Central Role as Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center Achieves Top Designation
When the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center (TCC) received its Comprehensive Cancer Center designation from the National Cancer Institute, it completed a comprehensive, 10-year review process that placed TCC among the top one percent of cancer centers nationwide. These...
Training the Next Generation of Change-Makers in Nursing
Hypertension remains a significant public health challenge and a major contributor to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Although clinical trials have identified effective interventions to improve hypertension outcomes, translation of findings remains uneven. In...
Mount Sinai Nurses: Inspiring the Next Generation Through Unique Learning Opportunities
With a laser focus on cultivating the next generation of nurses, the Mount Sinai Health System leads the way with two unique and popular programs for students. Both provide an invaluable, hands-on, hospital-based experience to those on a path to becoming a nurse. The...
Six Nursing Studies and Their Global Reach
A clinical nurse at Mount Sinai Queens, Elvira Solis, MSN, RN, CCRN, is impacting care far beyond her hospital’s walls. What started as an idea to enhance pupillary assessment—checking the eyes— among critical care patients evolved into a quality improvement (QI)...
Celebrating Nurse Practitioners: A Critical Role in Health Care
Nurse Practitioners (NPs) play an increasingly important role in the fast-paced and high-reliability field of health care. Since the nation’s first NP program launched in 1965, there are now more than 431,000 licensed NPs throughout the United States, responsible for...
Midwives: Offering Personalized Care Throughout a Lifetime
It is a common misconception that midwives provide only natural childbirth or pregnancy services. In fact, all New York State licensed midwives, both Certified Midwives and Certified Nurse Midwives, offer a unique brand of care throughout a patient’s lifetime, from...
“I Am a Mount Sinai Nurse”
What is a Mount Sinai nurse? A Mount Sinai nurse is so many things: a team player, dedicated caregiver, critical thinker, continuous learner, mentor, patient advocate. And so much more. At Mount Sinai, we believe that a Mount Sinai nurse is the nurse all other nurses...
Spotlight on Simulation: Jared M. Kutzin, PhD, DNP, MS, MPH, Senior Director of the Simulation Teaching and Research Center at The Mount Sinai Hospital
As the largest and consistently ranked “most trusted profession” in health care, nursing can have a strong voice in education and safety on a global level, says Jared M. Kutzin, PhD, DNP, MS, MPH. As a nurse and President of the international Society for Simulation in...