Education
DNP-Adult Health & Gerontology, Post-MS Certification-Adult Health, MSN-Nursing Education, BSN, University of Missouri-Columbia
About Janet Chance-Hetzler
Dr. Janet Chance-Hetzler, DNP, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, ACNS-BC, AOCNS, CNE, holds an Associate Degree in Nursing, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, a Master of Science in Nursing Education, a post-master’s certificate in Adult Health & Gerontology-Clinical Nurse Specialist track and a Doctor of Nursing Practice. She was selected by her graduating institution, University of Missouri-Columbia, for inclusion in Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges. Dr. Chance-Hetzler has several publications. Her manuscript “Prospective Lymphedema Surveillance in a Clinic Setting” was published in the Journal of Personalized Medicine; for this research she was also awarded the Lymphology Association of North America Research Award at the 25th World Congress of Lymphology held in San Francisco in September 2015. Her manuscript, “The Relationship Between Personal and Structural Barriers to Mammography,” was selected for presentation at the Midwest Research Nurse Society Conference in Milwaukee in March 2016. She co-authored the January 2016 lead article on the financial/economic issues of lymphedema in the National Lymphedema Network’s journal, LymphLink. In addition, she co-authored a chapter in B. B. Lee & S. G. Rockson’s (Ed) medical textbook “Lymphedema: A Concise Compendium of Theory and Practice,” which was published in 2018.
Dr. Chance-Hetzler is board certified as an Advanced Practice Nurse, an Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist, an Advanced Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, and certified by the National League of Nursing (NLN) as a Nurse Educator. Dr. Chance-Hetzler is active in many professional organizations, such as Oncology Nursing Society, Advanced Practitioner Society for Hematology and Oncology, and National League of Nursing. She is also a current member of Sigma Theta Tau nursing honor society and a board member of the Missouri League of Nursing (MLN). She is also the chairperson for the MLN Scholarship Committee and the MLN Northern Unit Chairperson.
Dr. Chance-Hetzler has 11 years of teaching experience and 30-plus years of nursing experience working in various areas of clinical practice, including Medical-Surgical and Critical Care, but has practiced predominantly in Oncology/Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation and Oncology Clinical Research. Dr. Chance-Hetzler currently continues to practice part-time as an Advanced Practice Nurse in hematology/oncology.
Dr. Chance-Hetzler lives in Columbia with her husband; she has one daughter, who holds a doctorate in sociology and is a professor of sociology, and one granddaughter.