Dr. Chandler’s passion is understanding how to interrupt the affect Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) have on health risk behaviors, hard-to-treat symptoms and chronic disease conditions. Her empowerment model is the framework for asset-based interventions to develop resilience to ACE to promote young adult health and well being. She has been a leader in promoting trauma informed care to eliminate seclusion and restraints and create a safe environment for patients and staff on inpatient mental health units. Mentoring as strategy to empower students, nurses and faculty, is the focus of Dr. Chandler’s educational research which has resulted in two books, the award winning guide to successfully being accepted into nursing school and an informative study on succeeding in the first year of practice as well as two Robert Wood Johnson New Careers In Nursing awards. “I am a midwife teacher who gives birth to student’s ideas’” aptly describes Dr. Chandler’s teaching style that inspires students to develop their voice, create new knowledge and build their leadership capacity. “As a relational learner, whether in person or online, I develop trusting relationships and promote an exciting collegial environment so learning will thrive.” Her leadership style, whether in the classroom, on university committee or in a professional organization, gently encourages by what one student described as “the ability to plant seeds of ideas, where upon they grow in students fertile minds and are welcomed as ideas of their own.”
Mentoring
Growing nurse leaders: An undergraduate teaching assistant program, Journal of Nursing Education (2005)
In today's complex health care system, leader behaviors are critical for all nurses. The undergraduate...
An evaluation of college and low income youth writing together: self discovery and cultural connection, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing (2002)
Although the health and healing effects of writing have been documented in the literature, most...
Writing
The use of a writing group to enhance voice and connection among staff nurses (with Rosanna F. DeMarco and Susan Jo Roberts), Journal for Nurses in Staff Development (2005)
The aim of this study was to pilot test a group-writing intervention to decrease negative...
An evaluation of college and low income youth writing together: self discovery and cultural connection, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing (2002)
Although the health and healing effects of writing have been documented in the literature, most...
Writing with faculty
Improving faculty publication output: The role of a writing coach (with Claire Baldwin), Journal of Professional Nursing (2002)
Publishing academic papers is recognized by faculty as vital not only to their careers, but...
Adolescents
Adolescent Resilience, Journal of Nursing Scholarship (2007)
Purpose: To explore what resilience means to adolescents and whether the Resiliency Scale can accurately...
Nursing students
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Into Nursing School (2007)
In this book you wil have the opportunity to: Hear the inside stories from nursing...
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Motivating underrepresented students to pursue faculty roles (with J. Swanston), Nurse Educator (2012)
Mutual mentoring: A report of a successful project (with M. Barton-Burke, J. Garofalo, D. Zucker, and C. Jacelon), Journal of Professional Nursing (2012)
Reducing restraints and seclusion to create a culture of safety, Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services (2012)
The purpose of this article is to describe the structure that empowered staff of a...
Succeeding in the First Year of Practice: Heed the Wisdom of Novice Nurses, Journal for Nurses in Staff Development (2012)
The transition from student to nurse has been described as traumatic, confusing, and shocking. The...
Nurse decision making in the prearrest period (with P. Gazarian and E. Henneman), Clinical Nursing Research (2009)
There is a significant body of research demonstrating that many hospitalized patients exhibit signs of...