LAUREN ENGEL

Interventional Radiology

Mount Sinai South Nassau

Lauren Engel, 26, is an interventional radiology nurse who started planning her career in nursing in high school. As a third-generation nurse, the "family business" has always held a special place in her heart. Her mother and sister are current nurses; her grandmother is a retired nurse. All were educated at Adelphi University.

"It's something that I've known my whole life, hearing stories from my grandmother and my mother. I always knew I wanted to do.”

Lauren started as a comfort aide at Mount Sinai South Nassau in 2015, then pursued her studies at Adelphi. In May 2018 she began her critical care residency. She worked through the pandemic as an ICU nurse, receiving the Daisy Award for Nursing Excellence after bringing a patient back from the brink of death from cardiac arrest.

“It's patients like that,” Lauren says, “we're so close to losing them, then to see them walk out of the hospital with no deficits shortly after is what makes it so rewarding. You appreciate what you do so much more because you realize the difference you made.”

Now in interventional radiology, she is supported not only by her nursing family at home, but at the hospital, where she’s made lifelong friends. “Everyone works so well together. One of the greatest things about this hospital is that it's so community based. You walk down the hallway, you see four people and you wave to them.”