Your Nursing Career With the State of New York
A Lifetime of Benefits and Opportunities
Rewarding
Lisa Viggiani, Psychiatric Nurse 2
NYS Office of Mental Health
Middletown Psychiatric Center, Middletown, NY
"If you’re in it for your own reward, the personal gains and personal rewards, then working for the State is phenomenal."
Worthwhile
Patricia Campbell, Psychiatric Nurse 2
NYS Office of Mental Health
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, Queens, NY
"It’s a good job with a lot of nice people and I feel worthwhile."
Wonderful Career
Anita Ridgeway, Community Mental Health Nurse
NYS Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Finger Lakes Developmental Disabilities Services Office, Elmira, NY
"If there’s a nurse who is interested in becoming an employee of New York State, I would say go for it. Do it. It’s been a very rewarding and wonderful career for me."
Professional Growth
Arlene Manning, Medical Care Representative
NYS Insurance Fund, Buffalo, NY
"The State has offered us many opportunities for educational growth as well as professional growth with continuing programs in the office and offered programs outside of the office."
Education and Leave Benefits
Cheri Gajewski, Nurse Administrator 1
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
"Some of the New York State benefits that I have personally used -- I have used the education vouchers to help me go forward in my education and do that per semester. Utilizing time off, paid time off, vacation, personal leave when you have things to do is something that we do on a regular basis."
Healthcare Benefits
Denise Ribble, Director of Nursing
NYS Department of Health
NYS Veterans’ Home at Montrose, Montrose, NY
"I have been able to take advantage of the healthcare program, which by the way is one that I selected, unlike some other facilities which choose your health program for you. My family is covered by the health program here."
Geographic Mobility and Dedicated Team
Grace Kwan, Nurse Practitioner
NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services
Russell E. Blaisdell Addiction Treatment Center, Orangeburg, NY
"You could transfer to any place you want to, you know, and located like, for example, you want to go to Buffalo from Rockland County, you ask for a transfer and you are still in the New York State system. You’re talking about you have the top healthcare benefits and pension plan. Not only that, you really work with nurses who are really dedicated. You really are part of that team."
Career Mobility
Kathy Keller, Nurse 2
NYS Department of Correctional Services
Wende Correctional Facility, Alden, NY
"I originally started working with developmentally disabled patients and then I transferred to Roswell and I began working with oncology patients and then I transferred to the Department of Corrections."
Equal Opportunity
Christian Ojo, Nursing Program Coordinator
NYS Office of Mental Health
Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Wards Island, NY
"I’m originally from Nigeria. I rose now to the position of Nursing Program Coordinator so I would encourage minority people to join the New York State service."
Job Satisfaction
Diana Dixon, Health Care Surveyor 2
NYS Department of Health, New York, NY
"Since I’ve started working for the New York State Department of Health I have not considered taking a job outside of the State because my job, it’s very unique. It allows me to utilize both of my degrees, my legal and my nursing degree, and it is very, very rewarding -- very rewarding."
Growth Opportunities
Dora Adelsolar, Supervising Licensed Practical Nurse
NYS Department of Health
NYS Veterans’ Home at Montrose, Montrose, NY
"This is the best place to continue to grow and to have more challenges every day."
Quality Care
Roberto Grajales, Oncology Nurse 2
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
"A patient of ours that went to ICU, he was very sick, was almost coded. He was eventually discharged from the hospital and I saw him years later. I saw him in a store, actually. He was very thankful." He said, “I never forgot what you guys did for me. You pulled me through.”
Personal Growth
Patricia Campbell, Psychiatric Nurse 2
NYS Office of Mental Health
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, Queens, NY
"I have grown personally and professionally working with the State -- first of all, by receiving an education, second of all by being in touch with different ethnic groups, which usually State service has a lot of different people working for them and they all are good people and they can all work together and help a lot of people and that makes me a better person."
New York State Values Nurses
Jemma Marie-Hanson, Teaching and Research Center Nurse 3
State University of New York
Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
"Please come. We welcome you. We love having new nurses on, we love having experienced nurses on. We are a very giving institution. Our State institution values nurses."