Janelle, a Massachusetts native, earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont in 2014. Upon graduating, she worked for a year in early childhood special education nursing. In 2015, she accepted a position in the general surgical unit at the University of Vermont Medical Center. With a passion for education, she later began teaching clinicals for nursing students in various clinical specialties, including cardiology, orthopedics, and general surgery, as she pursued her master’s degree in nursing education. Following her master’s graduation from Norwich University in 2020, she accepted a position at the University of Vermont. She is currently co-teaching courses in Gerontology and Introduction to Clinical Practice and continues to serve as a clinical instructor.

Areas of expertise: medical-surgical nursing, gerontology, nursing education