Mount Sinai Health System Celebrates Nurses Week
Events include address from American Nurses Association president and red-carpet welcome for nurses arriving to work on National Nurses Day
In honor of Nurses Week, Thursday, May 6, through Wednesday, May 12, Mount Sinai Health System will host several celebratory and commemorative events to celebrate the professionalism, innovation, and resilience of nurses. The events will highlight and showcase the great work of Mount Sinai nurses during this pandemic and beyond, underscoring the importance and prominence of their role in health care.
“Nurses Week is a time to honor and recognize our nursing community for their tremendous contributions to health care and beyond,” said Beth Oliver, DNP, RN, Chief Nursing Executive and Senior Vice President of Cardiac Services at the Mount Sinai Health System. “During the past year we faced the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetime, and we are indebted to our nurses who continue to work so tirelessly to help our patients and their families, all while continuing to provide help and care to their colleagues. Nurses’ constant presence at the bedside and their leadership and ingenuity were integral to weathering the greatest storm we’ve seen in recent history, and I couldn’t be prouder of my colleagues.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared 2020 the Year of the Nurse, honoring the profession during the 200th birthday of its founder Florence Nightingale, and extended the designation into 2021 to spotlight the role of nurses as health care leaders during the pandemic.
To honor nurses at Mount Sinai, the Health System is hosting many internal events that celebrate its nurses with meals, treats, and relaxation activities. Each hospital is also honoring nursing excellence with virtual award ceremonies.
Public events include:
- On May 6, National Nurses Day, nurses will be recognized as the stars that they are by walking the red carpet at each of Mount Sinai’s eight hospitals as they arrive for their shift to the applause and gratitude of nurse leaders and other staff.
- On May 6 at 1 pm, Ernest J. Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN, President of the American Nurses Association, will celebrate the commitment, innovation, and resilience of our nurses in a message aired on Mount Sinai’s YouTube channel. He will also speak to the importance of diversity in nursing and how to be better equipped to provide health care equity.
- On May 12 at 1:30 pm, Dr. Oliver and the Chief Nursing Officers from across the Health System will hold a webinar on Mount Sinai’s YouTube channel, titled Transformational Nurse Leadership, on how nursing leadership has evolved throughout the COVID-19 crisis and on innovations that have improved the patient experience.
- On May 12, Mount Sinai’s podcast Real, Smart People will air an episode featuring Bevin Cohen, PhD, MPH, MS, RN, Director of Research and Evidence-Based Practice at The Mount Sinai Hospital, who penned a letter in The Lancet titled “Nursing's seat at the research roundtable,” which highlighted nursing’s sometimes overlooked contributions to research.
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.
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