Angela Blackburn
- Position: Associate Professor
- Department: School of Nursing
- Office Location: Building 41, Room 122
- ablackburn@uwf.edu
- Campus: 850.473.7760
Biography
Angela Blackburn, Ph.D., APRN, NNP-BC, Associate Professor is a nurse educator with more than 15 years experience in higher education. Before joining UWF in 2011, she taught at the University of South Alabama in the neonatal nurse practitioner program. She is a HeartMath® Certified Trainer. She teaches Foundations of Nursing Science, Advanced Pharmacology, Population Health, Evidence-Based Practice and Advanced Pathophysiology.
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. Dr. Blackburn holds national certification as a neonatal nurse practitioner. She has more than 25 years of clinical experience in health care settings.
Her area of research interest includes caring science, work site wellness, ethics, and qualitative research methods. She is an International Institute of Qualitative Methodology Member Scholar. She completed the Caritas Coach Education Program® (CCEP) offered by the Watson Caring Science Institute (WCSI) to advance the philosophies, theories, and educational-clinical-research practices of Caring Science in 2021. Dr. Blackburn was selected as a 2022-2023 Watson Caring Science Postdoctoral/Senior Scholar, where she will participate in a one year exclusive personal study with Dr. Jean Watson to expand knowledge of Caring Science as Sacred Science.
Dr. Blackburn served as Interim Chairperson for the School of Nursing (2018-2020) graduate program director (2011-2018). She serves on the Ascension Gulf Coast Ethics Integration Committee, and the University of West Florida Institutional Review Board (2020-2022 chairperson). She is a board member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Upsilon Kappa Chapter.
