Bio & Expertise
Angela Blackburn, Ph.D., APRN, NNP-BC, is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of West Florida. She is a nurse educator and nationally certified neonatal nurse practitioner with more than 15 years experience in higher education.
Dr. Blackburn completed the Watson Caring Science Institute Caritas Coach Education Program and now serves as a Caritas Coach®. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in 2022-2023 with renowned nurse theorist Dr. Jean Watson to advance the philosophies, theories, and educational-clinical-research practices of Unitary Caring Science.
Dr. Blackburn holds credentials as a HeartMath® Certified Trainer and The Resilient Heart™: Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Certification. To learn more about these programs and what they can offer your academic or clinical setting go to: https://www.heartmath.com/certification/.
Before joining UWF in 2011, she taught at the University of South Alabama in the neonatal nurse practitioner program. She currently teaches Advanced Practice for the Nurse Educator, Nurse Educator Advanced Clinical Practicum, and a number of graduate core courses including: Foundations of Nursing Science, Advanced Pharmacology, Population Health, Evidence-Based Practice and Advanced Pathophysiology.
Dr. Blackburn earned a Ph.D. in Nursing (Ethics Specialization) from the University of Southern Mississippi. Her doctoral dissertation explored mothers’ stories of their neonatal intensive care unit experience using narrative research methods. She earned a BSN in nursing and MSN (Neonatal Nurse Practitioner) from the University of South Alabama. She has more than 25 years of clinical experience in health care settings.
Her area of research interest includes: caring science, work site health and wellness, ethics, and qualitative research methods.
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