معرفی
Chandrani Isac is a Senior Lecturer in Advanced Practice at the School of Medicine within the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care (Chelmsford), specializing in nurse education with extensive clinical teaching experience in adult acute care settings. She develops innovative simulated learning experiences and evidence-based teaching strategies to cultivate critical thinking in nursing students.
Her academic qualifications include:
- BSc Nursing from Christian Medical College, India
- MSc Nursing from Christian Medical College, India
Her research centers on transitional care protocols for elderly patients with chronic illnesses, cardiovascular diseases, and critical care nursing. She systematically reviews clinical standards to address caregiver burden in Asian contexts, ventilator-associated pneumonia prevention, and stress/sleepiness factors affecting nursing students, embedding findings into educational frameworks.
Recent publications (2018-2021) reveal strong thematic continuity across geriatrics, cardiology, and nursing education, with emphasis on evidence-based practice in Middle Eastern healthcare settings. Key trends include caregiver burden analysis, simulation efficacy validation, and physiological-behavioral determinants of student performance.
No formal scientific awards are documented, though she serves as reviewer for Oman Medical Journal and Nursing Forum.
She actively supervises research and has secured multiple grants:
- Principal Investigator: Care Transition Measures for CVD Patients (2021-2022, 1700 OMR)
- Principal Investigator: Daytime Sleepiness in Nursing Students (2016-2018, 200 OMR)
- Co-Principal Investigator: Neurological Outcome Prediction (2017-2020, 900 OMR)
- Co-Investigator: Simulation Evaluation in Nursing (2014-2016, 2000 OMR)
Her work drives standardization of OSCE practices and simulation frameworks within nursing education teams, particularly through contributions to baccalaureate program accreditation and faculty development workshops.
