Dr. Janette Y. Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Parent Child and Family Area of Study at the College of Nursing. Her BSN is from Lebanon Valley College. Her MSN in Health Care of Women and Childbearing Family is from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Taylor is certified as a Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner. Her clinical experience has been in neonatology, obstetrics, gynecology and community health. She received both her PhD in Nursing Science and the graduate certificate in Women's Studies from the University of Washington. Dr. Taylor's research interests are in women's health. Her current research focuses on resilience and recovering in African American women survivors of intimate male partner abuse (e.g., domestic violence). Dr. Taylor also addresses culturally competent ways to conduct research among African American women.
Articles
The self-stigma of depression for women (with L. D. Oakley, J. W. Kanter, and M. Duguid), The International Journal of Social Psychiatry (2011)
BACKGROUND: Self-stigmatizing women who avoid seeking treatment for depression could believe that they have pragmatic...
Engaging racial autoethnography as a teaching tool for womanist inquiry (with Melissa Lehan Mackin and A. M. Oldenburg), ANS: Advances in Nursing Science (2008)
Racial autobiography, self-narratives on how one learned about the idea of race, has been underutilized...
Commentary on "How family, community, and work structured high blood pressure accounts: From African Americans in Washington State", Journal of Holistic Nursing (2008)
Using a wiki to enhance knowing participation in change in the teaching-learning process (with Howard K. Butcher), Visions: The Journal of Rogerian Nursing Science (2008)
Academic freedom and academic duty to teach social justice: A perspective and pedagogy for public health nursing faculty (with N. L. Fahrenwald, S. M. Kneipp, and M. K. Canales), Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.) (2007)
Public health nursing practice is rooted in the core value of social justice. Nursing faculty...
Other
Music Therapy for Incarcerated Women Recovering from Trauma and Abuse (with Sumnima Neupane), Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (2012)
In the US, over 5.3 million victimizations related to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) occur annually,...