Julie Chartrand is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She is a Research Associate at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute. As a registered nurse, Professor Chartrand practiced in the area of pediatric critical care and perioperative care at CHEO in Ottawa.
Her current research focuses on patient and parent involvement in the delivery of health care to children and the education of future nurses during their pediatric clinical placement. Her goal is to improve patient outcomes by supporting and valuing the place of patients and their families in health care. Professor Chartrand is also interested in improving access to quality care for francophone minority communities. She is currently conducting research examining the experiences of francophone patients and parents with pediatric oncology care in their homes and evaluating online training on the FLACC pediatric pain scale with francophone nursing students.
She teaches primarily in French in the undergraduate and graduate programs. She supervises both francophone and anglophone students at the master's and doctoral levels in nursing.
Professor Chartrand is accepting new students for thesis supervision.