Matters of the Heart
Caroline Austin-Maddison is a nurse practitioner at Mount Sinai Hospital, specializing in cardiac care. Her work in Harlem near Mount Sinai Hospital, as well as, the Caribbean Island of Monserrat, reveals innumerable case studies in resilience.
[00:00:00] Stephen Calabria: From the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, this is Road to Resilience, a podcast about facing adversity. I'm your host STephen Calabria, Mount Sinai's Director of Podcasting.
[00:00:12] On this episode, we speak with Caroline Austin-Mattison, NP. Caroline serves as the Director of Nursing at Mount Sinai Hospital, and as a nurse practitioner works primarily with Mount Sinai's cardiology patients in and around the hospital's community of East and Central Harlem.
[00:00:29] She has also been active in bringing top-tier cardio health to the Caribbean island of Monserrat, through an initiative spearheaded at Mount Sinai to bring better healthcare to that island's residents.
[00:00:41] We're honored to welcome Caroline Austin-Maddison to the show.
[00:00:45] Caroline Austin Madison, welcome to Road to Resilience.
[00:00:49] Caroline Austin-Mattison: Thank you. Happy to be here.
[00:00:51] Stephen Calabria: In your role as a nurse practitioner, what does resilience mean to you?
[00:00:57] Caroline Austin-Mattison: So resilience means to me, the ability to recover from difficult experiences.
[00:01:03] And in my role, one of the things that helps me to care for patients is, I focus on my own family's experience with a stroke with my paternal grandmother dying from multiple strokes actually, and having uncontrolled hypertension.
[00:01:20] So this has shaped my resilience as a nurse practitioner and helping me to support, not only my loved ones, but also patients through recovery. And so this has taught me patience, adaptability, and also the importance of holistic care.
[00:01:37] So it has fueled my passion as a nurse practitioner to focus on prevention and education, particularly around managing risk factors like hypertension, or high blood pressure and obesity. And also, it gives me a personal connection that drives my commitment to empower patients and provide compassionate and comprehensive care.