Overview

Dr. Mary Bondmass has over 30 years of nursing experience with expertise in practice and teaching critical care and emergency nursing. In the past 10 years, Dr. Bondmass has held positions at UNLV as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, and most recently served as Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. She is an active member of multiple School of Nursing and Graduate College Committees.

Expertise

Bondmass has been certified and practiced as a clinical nurse specialist, and is currently a certified nurse educator with over 20 years of experience in teaching/learning and over 15 years of academic leadership. She has reviewed manuscripts for professional publications, including Journal of Nursing Education, International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, and Research in Nursing and Health, and has served on several health advisory boards in Washington, D.C., including the National Consumers League. As the former director of faculty development at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), Bondmass is well-versed in all AACN Essentials documents and the requirements for Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) accreditation.

Classes Taught

Bondmass has previously taught Evidence-Based Practice: Translation of Evidence, Research, Biostatistics, Nurse Educator Practicum, Nursing Theory, Translational Evidence for Health Care Systems, and Analysis and Economics of Healthcare Systems and Delivery at the graduate level, as well as Pharmacology, Biostatistics, Advanced Med/Surg, and Gerontology Nursing at the undergraduate level.

Education Background

Bondmass earned her bachelor's and master’s in Nursing from Loyola University in Chicago and her doctoral degree (Ph.D.) from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Research or Scholarship

Bondmass has led grant-supported research focused on advanced practice tele-management of chronic heart failure, diabetes, and atrial fibrillation. She has received funding from the National Association of Aging and the National League for Nursing. More recently, her research has examined nursing education with an emphasis on teaching and learning evidence-based practice at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is interested in pre- and post-self-efficacy among undergraduate and graduate students regarding QSEN competencies, and in the correlation between undergraduate grades and first-time NCLEX-RN pass rates.

Bondmass has published data in medical, nursing, and lay literature and has several book chapters in four editions of Research for Advanced Practice Nurses: From Evidence to Practice.

Awards, recognitions, or group affiliations

Bondmass earned the Sister Helen Jerrel/Clinical Excellence Award from Loyola University and the Distinguished Nurse Leader with Lifetime Achievement Award from the Nevada Nurses Foundation. She is also the recipient of UNLV School of Nursing’s Tenure Track Excellence in Research Award and Excellence in Teaching Award.

Bondmass is the former two-term president of the Nevada Nurses Association and the UNLV Emeritus Liaison to the University Medical Center Southern Nevada Research and EBP Council (2016 – 2026). She is also an advisory board member for the Nevada Nurses Foundation and a past editorial board member for RNFormation, a Nevada Nurses Association publication. Currently, Bondmass serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Professional Nursing, the official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).