Shanelle Nelson, BSN, MSN
Columbia University School of Nursing
Shanelle Nelson received her BS in Community Health Education from the University of Maryland at College Park. While there, she served as an intern for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of HSS, learning about the grant application and review process. Upon graduation, she began working in hospital administration at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Desiring more patient interaction and drawn to nursing, she worked as a Nurse Tech in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) at Phelps Memorial Hospital while attending nursing school full time.
In 2004, she received her BSN from the College of New Rochelle and shortly thereafter moved to Philadelphia to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. While in graduate school, Ms. Nelson worked as a staff nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. During her final year of her nursing master's program in health leadership, she served as a research assistant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on the study, "Readmission Factors in Community Dwelling Elderly with Acute Heart Failure." Since graduation in 2006, Ms. Nelson has been a Quality Management Specialist for the Pediatric Cardiac and Lung Transplant Program of New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.
Ms. Nelson’s research interests include hospital nurse workforce issues, pediatric patient safety and complementary/alternative therapies. She is a member of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses. A native New Yorker, Ms. Nelson is an active volunteer in New York Cares and the Wellness Center of Riverside Church.
Ms. Nelson has a strong commitment to improving hospital nursing care from an academic post as faculty, using the scholarly skills gained in a doctoral program. Her goals are to secure a full-time academic faculty position in a NYC School of Nursing, and an affiliation in a research-intensive hospital to actively pursue pediatric patient safety research.
