Dr. Barbara Turner has been fortunate to have a very diverse career from nursing to information technology and finally academics. Barb was a civilian and military nurse spanning 23 years in various roles in SICU, ER, ICU, OR, and RR as an Emergency Services Director, Nurse Manager and House Supervisor. She is a USAF veteran. Her service began in the Arkansas Air National Guard and then active duty. She participated DESERT STORM and other operations deploying to Bosnia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait as a flight nurse and Director of Emergency Services. She left the AF at the rank of major to pursue a doctorate. From there she became a team lead and then IT manager for two major health care organizations. Her last adventure was in academics where she became the Director of Academic Affairs for the Asia Military Campus for the University of Phoenix from 2004-2015 managing 14 learning centers across Japan, South Korea, and Guam with 13 core faculty and more than 100 contributing faculty. Barb’s online teaching experience goes back to 2002. Since January of 2016, Barbara has served as contributing faculty for Walden University.
She is currently serving as Core Faculty for Research, ACBSP credentialer, and Faculty Onboarding Coordinator for the PhD Management Program
Barb has served in several academic faculty roles from administrator to dissertation chair, committee member, university reviewer, grant reviewer, course developer, and online faculty. Her research specialty is Phenomenology. She has conducted both qualitative and quantitative studies, two of which were published in national nursing journals while a student in the Applied Psych- Org Management program at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. She has more than post graduate hours in statistics and research stats. Over the past decade and a half, Barb has worked with students using qualitative methods to include both transcendental and hermeneutic phenomenology, Delphi, case study, mini ethnography, auto ethnography, phenomenology, and narrative inquiry studies and various types of quantitative designs.
More About Me
Education
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DM, University of Phoenix
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MAP, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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MS, University of Phoenix
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BS, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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AD, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Public Service
5Hills Jeeps Charitable Foundation
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Volunteer
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Marble Falls, TX United States
18th Wing Kadena AFB; USAF Senior Leadership Academy
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Guest Speaker
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Kadena AFB Japan
Command Kadena AFB, NCO Academy
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Guest Speaker
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Kadena AFB Japan
Asia Military Campus Partnering With the Military Community Program
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Organizer
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Kadena AFB Japan
Awards / Honors
Vice President of the Pulaski County Diabetes
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1984
COM 705 Faculty of the Month
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2011
Kern County Crystal Heart Award
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1993
Distinguished Alumni School of Advanced Studies
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University of Phoenix
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2003
Keynote Speaker for Kadena Air Base Veteran's Day
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2012
Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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1991
Who's Who in Nursing
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1986
USAF Air Medal, Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR US
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1998
USAF Meritorious Service Medal
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1998
Squadron Officer of the QTR
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1998
Publications
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Turner, B. A. (1993). Reputation: Can we prevent the harm?.
Nursing Management.
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Turner, B. A., Turner, B. A. (2009). The phenomenological research method as a valid human sciences research tool into the investigation of human behavior.
The Refractive Thinker.
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Turner, B. A., Turner, B. A. (2009). The phenomenological research method as a valid human sciences research tool into the investigation of human behavior.
The Refractive Thinker.
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Turner, B. A. (1991). The psychological impact of the head nurse manager in transition: Organizational roles for minimizing the stress.
Health Care Supervisor.
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Turner, B. A. (2012). Twelve O'Clock High revisited: Lessons for leadership in the 21st century.
Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture.
