Nursing Environment

At Mount Sinai, you enter an environment of shared passion, dedication, and commitment to healing. You join an organization nationally recognized as providing the gold standard of patient care—one that demonstrates excellence in nursing philosophy and practice, exceeds national standards for improving patient care, and provides exemplary leadership and sensitivity to cultural and ethnic diversity.

Professional nursing practice at Mount Sinai combines autonomy, continuity, accountability, and interdisciplinary teamwork with compassionate caregiving and state-of-the art technology. This blend of the art and science of nursing is the foundation of our vision. It is the essence of our commitment to patients, their families, and the nurses who care for them. With the support of clinical leaders, the caregiving environment not only nourishes the nurse-patient relationship, but also fosters professional advancement and continuous improvement in the quality of care we provide.

Resources available to Mount Sinai nurses include:

• A clinically integrated orientation with a two-week centralized foundation followed by a comprehensive unit-based orientation including a preceptorship experience. Education Specialists are assigned to all services, coordinating all orientation and staff development activities
• A dynamic School of Continuing Education in Nursing, accredited by the New York State Nurses Association on behalf of the American Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation
• Recruitment and Retention support
• Nursing Research and Evidence-based Practice Programs
• Academic partnerships with numerous Schools of Nursing, which provide avenues for advanced education for staff as well as preceptor opportunities for nursing students
• An innovative Nursing Department committee structure that promotes advances in practice, research, education, recruitment, and retention
• Nursing Grand Rounds, Journal Clubs, and other opportunities for interdisciplinary team initiatives
• The Joseph F. Cullman Jr. Institute for Patient Care, which promotes caring and communication between caregivers and the patients and families we serve
• Unit-based Internet access

Organization of Nursing Care

Mount Sinai's comprehensive array of clinical specialties distinguishes it as an unparalleled provider of world-class care. Each patient is assured a dedicated team of professionals, beginning with a primary registered nurse and an attending physician. Our "Clinical Specialty Service" model ensures that professional expertise and support services are intrinsic components of our guiding principles.

Our clinical specialties include:

• Cardiovascular Care
• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Emergency Services
• Gastroenterology
• Internal Medicine
• Maternal-Child & Women&'s Health
• Neuroscience
• Oncology Care
• Perioperative & Perianesthesia Services
• Primary Care & Ambulatory Services
• Psychiatry & Mental Health Services
• Rehabilitation Services
• Surgical Specialties
• Transplantation Services

In addition, The Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens provides ambulatory and acute care services in Astoria, Queens — a community of 350,000 New Yorkers who identify this hospital for the support of their healthcare needs.

Mount Sinai Community

Founded in 1852, The Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. Today, Mount Sinai is a 1,000-bed academic health sciences center that provides comprehensive services to a regional, national, and international patient population. The medical staff encompasses nearly 1,800 full-time physicians and over 2,000 professional nurses, 200 of whom are advanced practice nurses (nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists and midwives).

The campus also includes The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, one of the nation's outstanding medical schools, with acclaimed MD, MPH, PhD, and MD/PhD curricula and a research program that has earned the distinction as the fastest-growing in New York State. Ever since our Hospital first opened its doors over a century and a half ago, Mount Sinai has been a creative force for medical innovation and patient advocacy.

Mount Sinai's state-of-the-art facilities include

• The unique Guggenheim Pavilion, a model for hospitals in the 21st century, designed by internationally renowned architect I.M. Pei
• The Icahn Medical Institute, a superb 736,000-square-foot biomedical research and clinical building that houses New York City's most modern laboratories for scientific investigation
• Specially designed patient environments - such as the healing ambience of the Ruttenberg Treatment Center for oncology patients, and the welcoming mother-baby Jo-Carole and Ronald S. Lauder Center for Maternity Care
• A Children's Hospital that brings together the full spectrum of pediatric services, as well as A Women's Center with comprehensive Obstetrics/Gynecology services and a Lactation/Childbirth Education Program
• A leading-edge patient-care infrastructure that encompasses a paperless Emergency Department and the most comprehensive sophisticated array of imaging services in New York State
• A New York State and Joint Commission designated Stroke Center including a multidisciplinary approach to care that includes a rapid response acute stroke team, a full array of acute and elective interventional procedures and designated acute stroke unit
• An American Society for Bariatric Surgery Certified Center of Excellence for Weight Loss Surgery
• Mount Sinai Heart, established in 2005 as a premier tertiary center for cardiac care
• The Center for Advanced Medicine (CAM) opened in 2008 to accommodate hospital ambulatory practices and medical school activities
• The Martha Stewart Center for Living, established in 2007, serves to promote and facilitate access to health care resources for older adults and to enhance the public perception of aging.

New York City

Located on Manhattan’s renowned Fifth Avenue, directly across from Central Park on “Museum Mile,” The Mount Sinai Hospital sits in the very heart of the world’s most exciting city. The Medical Center shares the neighborhoods of Carnegie Hill, a designated historical district to the south, and East Harlem, a diverse, predominantly Latino community to the north. Whether you seek extraordinary culture and nightlife, or simply a more convenient life-style, you can experience the best of urban living here. It’s not only the safest large city in the nation, but also the most abundant, by far, in cultural resources. Surrounding the Hospital are museums, shops, restaurants and variety of choices of public transportation to take you anywhere you want to go. As a Mount Sinai nurse, you will have all the advantages of this exhilarating community at your fingertips.