Expertise
Factors that predict stigma among healthcare providers, Therapeutic communication, Interprofessional simulation with actors as simulated patients>/div>
Research Interests
Mental illness stigma reduction and mental health care promotion. Interprofessional education simulation training for health care professional students.
Factors that predict stigma among emergency nurses and physicians caring for behavioral health patients.
Education
- Ph.D.: Nursing Health Promotion, (2021), UMass Lowell - Lowell, MA
- MS: Nursing with honors, (1999), Rivier College - Nashua NH
- MS: Nursing with honors, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, (1999), Rivier College - Nashua NH
- Associates Degree in Nursing, (1986), Eastern New Mexico University - New Mexico
- BFA: Major in Theatre,, (1983), Eastern New Mexico University - New Mexico
Supporting Area: minors in music and dance
Biosketch
Sandra Mote, Ph.D., has been a full-time faculty member at UMass Lowell since 2011. She has twenty years of clinical experience as an advanced practice nurse in psychiatric nursing. She earned her Ph.D. in 2021 and her research interests include stigma reduction for patients with mental illness and substance use disorders and reducing unconscious bias and stigma among healthcare providers. In addition to her nursing degrees, she received a bachelor’s degree in fine art from Eastern New Mexico University, with a major in theatre, and minors in music and dance. Sandra has a strong interest in simulation directing actors as simulated patients. In 2022 she became the inaugural director of simulation for the college and was selected as a university IPE fellow in 2015. As a fellow, she has contributed to the development of the experiential learning course at Summit Elder Care, annual IPE case study competitions, and college wide IPE simulations. Along with some of her IPE colleagues, she was selected to present her work as an IPE Fellow at the National Academies of Practice Conference in 2018.Selected Awards and Honors
- 2015 Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence (2015), Teaching - University of Massachusetts Lowell
Selected Presentations
- Use of Standardized Patients to Teach Therapeutic Communication in Undergraduate Nursing Education - Eastern New England Research Society, 2015
- Using theatre students as Standardized Patients in Undergraduate Nursing Education - UML Second Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning, 2014
- Psychiatric Simulation: Making it work in the Classroom - NEAPNA Conference, 2013 - Nashua, NH
- Therapeutic Group Proposal and Implementation: A CNL practice innovation - Clinical Nurse Leader Summit, 2010 - San Diego, CA
- Comunicacion Terapeutica, 2009 - Ceyala, Mexico
- Updates in Psychopharmacology, 2009 - Hampstead Hospital Ground Rounds
- Forest Pharmaceuticals "Psychotropic Drugs", 2007
- "Interviewing psychiatric patients in a primary care setting", 2006
- Profiles in Psychiatric Nursing, 1998
Selected Contracts, Fellowships, Grants and Sponsored Research
- IRB # 14-049 Use of Standardized Patients in Nursing Fundamentals Education. (2014), Grant -
Mote, S. - Use of Standardized Patients in Nursing Fundamentals Education (2013), Grant - College of Health Sciences
Soroken, L., Laccetti, M., Mote, S., Young, D.J. - Developing a Successful Nursing Objective (2009), Sponsored Research -
Mote, S., McWilliam, P. (Supporting)