Beth Desaretz Chiatti

Beth Chiatti, PhD, associate professor of Nursing in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, has experience in a broad range of settings in the healthcare industry, having worked as an educator, a nurse case manager, a medical-legal consultant, a genetic counselor, a school nurse and a registered nurse in women’s and gender-based health, maternal-child and pediatric settings. She is a certified transcultural nurse and a certified school nurse.

Chiatti was awarded a PhD from Widener University where her dissertation was Culture Care Beliefs and Practices of an Ethiopian Immigrant Community: An Ethnonursing Study. She was awarded an MSN from Immaculata University where her culminating project was Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Guidelines for Homeless Service Agencies and Shelters. Her school nurse certification project, Policy and Procedure for Early Intervention to Kindergarten Transition, is currently being used by administrators and educators in the School District of Philadelphia.

Chiatti teaches Nursing Research, Reproductive Health and Genetics in the BSN Co-op and ACE programs, and is the course chair for Research Basis of Nursing. She teaches and is the course chair for Genetics and Genomics in the RN-BSN Completion Program. She has received Dragon Awards for outstanding teaching evaluations.

Chiatti is on the board of trustees of the Transcultural Nursing Society, where she also serves as secretary. She is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Transcultural Nursing, Sage Publications. She also serves as the secretary for Nu Eta Chapter at Drexel of Sigma and is a Sigma Mentor in the global leadership mentoring community for nurse faculty and nurse administrators in Karachi, Pakistan and Queensland, Australia.