Danielle M. Kistler MSN, RN
Danielle M. Kistler MSN, RN
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing and Health Sciences
Danielle Kistler relocated to SW Georgia from North Carolina and started with ABAC School of Nursing in July 2019. Her passion in nursing education is to work with students to help them develop their clinical reasoning, clinical judgment and critical thinking in their nursing tenure at ABAC and beyond. She hopes to drive the students to excellence with her knowledge and empathy while enjoying the process. Danielle Kistler's mission is to inspires her students to excel and drive for excellence in their scholarly ambition with ABAC. Each day when a light bulb comes on for a student, is what drives Ms. Kistler to continue to do what she does every day.
Danielle Kistler has a wide variety of nursing experience. She has been a nurse for over 32 years and with each day, she loves nursing more than the previous day. She has taught at varied colleges and universities in the clinical lab settings, computer/simulation settings, remediation, as well as with grants to support geriatric nursing. She has worked with students in the didactic portion of Health Assessment and the clinical skills labs and clinical rotations at ABAC. Prior to education, Ms. Kistler has worked in varied roles in nursing such as but not limited to recruitment, retention, student advising, nursing administration and leadership. Her clinical experience is primarily in medical-surgical nursing.
Ms. Kistler received her MSN in Nursing Education at Georgia Southwestern State University in 2022 and her BSN from the University of Florida in 1991. She is a Lean Six Sigma yellow belt, BLS certified, and has her Georgia RN license. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, Mu Pi chapter, Georgia Association of Nurse Educators, and the National League of Nursing. She is working on applications to attain her Doctorate of Nursing Practice at a university in Georgia.
Ms. Kistler finds that being engaged with the ABAC nursing students is essential to their success. Retention of the students in the program has been a main focus of Ms. Kistler's tenure at ABAC. She has worked closely with the nursing students to assist them to be successful with engaging clinial judgement activities, assisting with the development of an escape room for the first semester students, working individually with students on their study habits and future development in the program. She sits on two advisory HOSA boards one at Tift County and the other at Crisp County. She is working currently with second-fourth semester students in mentoring the first semester students in a mentor program. In addition to her engagement with learning, her collaboration and leadership skills have been utilized in the program. She as developed relationships with outside partners to assist with monetary and equipment donations to help the students at the School of Nursing. Her motto is Be the Exception, Be the Best--ABAC Nursing.