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.
Empowering nurses. Empowering you.
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It is very important to us that we create a work environment where everyone feels welcomed, comfortable, valued for what they bring to the organization, recognized for their contributions, and empowered to provide the highest quality care. It goes beyond salary and benefits. We work hard to develop an environment and culture that attracts top-quality talent. That is what sets Cayuga Medical Associates apart.
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Onboarding
We provide a comprehensive onboarding program for both experienced nurses and recent nursing graduates. At Cayuga Medical Associates, our team of leaders and preceptors will teach you everything you need to know about your chosen specialty. Whether you are a recent graduate, switching specialties, or looking for a new home to exercise your current expertise, we will use our resources and tools to help make a customized onboarding plan to ensure you make a successful transition.
What We Offer
How We Work
At Cayuga Medical Associates, we believe in supporting and valuing each and every team member. Our Professional Practice Model supports this. This framework serves as a guide for defining, overseeing, and evaluating professional nursing practice to ensure and support the advancement of the nursing and patient services team. The Professional Practice Model, also referred to as our practice framework, represents the nursing and patient services providers professional identity through various components that describe how our team practices, collaborates, communicates, and develops professionally to provide patient-centered care of the highest quality.
Ongoing Career Development
By the nature of the profession, nursing and patient services care providers are committed to lifelong learning. By offering high-impact programs with a reduced time commitment, Cayuga Medical Associates provides critical training and development for our nursing and patient services team, without compromising the time needed to do their jobs effectively.
Advancing your Nursing and Patient Services Career:
The Clinical Ladder program offers direct patient care providers a variety of development opportunities and allows NPS team members to build a customized career portfolio based on their interests. The purpose of the program is to promote career development and raise the bar of professional excellence among clinical team members while also providing recognition and advancement opportunities.
This program outlines flexible criteria for demonstration of excellence within domains of Cayuga Health’s professional practice model.
Shared Leadership
Shared Leadership is an interprofessional, collaborative governance structure where members share in decision-making that impacts professional practice and the work environment. Cayuga Health’s Shared Leadership structure includes councils at the system, hospitals, and unit levels. These councils play a vital role in ensuring the nurses and interprofessional collaborative partners have an active role in making decisions that impact professional practice. Through shared leadership, members are responsible and accountable for defining, implementing, and evaluating professional practice. The structure of shared leadership is part of the leadership component of our Professional Practice model, where team members share decisions that affect their practice.
what our EMPLOYEES are saying
“Working at Cayuga Health is a unique opportunity for people to positively impact the experience of patients, their families, and our community. There are the numerous ways to become involved in our system and to help ensure community members to receive the best care available anywhere. We are proud of our diverse, accomplished, and supportive staff – and we hope you consider joining it.”
“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.”
