Faculty Matters (Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing's Pamela Young-Mahon‪)‬

PAMELA YOUNG MAHON, PHD, RN, NEA-BC, CNE, describes the faculty role at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursihg, part of the city University of New York (CUNY), as challenging and expansive. All faculty teach across undergraduate and graduate programs and are familiar with the total student experience in the classroom, lab, and clinical settings. Pamela, an associate professor, maintains that this level of involvement fully informs the teaching at HBSON, named in 2010 an NLN Center of Excellence for creating environments that enhance student learning and professional development. Pamela credits the school's Manhattan location, in the heart of New York City, as a key factor in providing faculty opportunities to truly fulfill "our multiple professional nursing roles--educator, clinician, and researcher." Noting that HBSON is not formally part of a medical center, she points out that its location allows for developing affiliations with some of the finest health care delivery systems in the world. "We are located within a 10block stretch of hospitals that include Bellevue, the VA, New York University Medical Center, and the Rusk Rehabilitation Center. We are walking distance from Beth Israel Medical Center, a bus ride away from the Weill Cornell Medical Center, the Hospital for Special Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Lenox Hill Hospital, and a subway ride away from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center."