New challenges and opportunities to learn are what allow great careers to thrive. Join our family and you’ll experience it firsthand — alongside expert caregivers in a culture that provides you the support you need.
Professional Practice Model
Care Delivery
The foundation of practice begins with care delivery, making sure patients and families remain at the center of practice. Relationship-based care (RBC) is our model of care delivery that cultivates nurses’ key relationships with patients, colleagues, and each other.
Healthy Work Environment
To find balance within the key relationships of RBC, nurses and interprofessional partners foster a caring and healing environment and have the resources required for safe, patient-centered care delivery.
Improving Outcomes
Creating and sustaining a culture of safety is vital to improving outcomes and the level of care provided to patients.
Leadership
Transformational leaders provide strategic vision for nursing through leadership support and advocacy, and they empower nurses at all levels and across all settings to share in decisions that affect their practice.
Development
Nurses are committed to lifelong learning and have opportunities for professional development. Nurses teaching and developing their peers is essential to passing the profession on to the future.
Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Clinical inquiry and evidence-based practice enables nurses to identify new knowledge, apply innovative approaches to care delivery and implement the best care for patients.
Engagement
Professional recognition and valuing nurses for their contributions to the practice support professional advancement. Nurses are committed to serving patients in the community through healthcare outreach.
Nursing Practice
Demonstrating professional accountability through practice standards supports autonomous nursing practice. Advanced nursing practice demonstrates clinical expertise and encourages top-of-license practice.
Our Care Models at Work
what our EMPLOYEES are saying
“Cayuga Medical Center offers resources that not only save and improve lives, but they also offer opportunities for career advancement to their employees. They have helped me to further my education as I work to become a nurse.”
“Exceptional quality of life coupled with the opportunity to work with remarkable colleagues in a state of the art facility that has relentless focus on quality care and patient satisfaction. More over, you can really have it all in Ithaca – short commute, great schools, a world class university and to top it all – nature’s beauty at its best during four seasons.”
“I am proud to work at CMC because they are dedicated to improvement and for the first time in my career, I feel like I can make a difference. The teamwork in the Emergency Department is pretty amazing!”
“As a primary care physician, I help support and feel supported by the community in which I love. The Ithaca community is diverse, collegial and proactive in their health. We are fortunate to have great resources through Cayuga Medical Center and a wealth of superb physicians rarely seen outside large urban centers. My family takes advantage of living in the Finger Lakes with swimming, hiking, cross country skiing, and trips to the local wineries, farmer’s markets, and festivals all year long.”
“This has been a dream job. I never thought it would be so perfect or so rewarding. Taking care of patients with respiratory needs is an honor and having the support of such great staff around me makes it that much more motivating to come into work and do my best every day.”
