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 nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. The Health System includes approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses across seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, a school of nursing, and schools of medicine and graduate school of biomedical sciences.
As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.
Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York and recognized as one of the world’s top Smart Hospital by Newsweek. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.
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