Steven Busby

Biography

Dr. Busby has been involved in healthcare delivery for more than 37 years. He worked as an EMT/Paramedic in the Tampa Bay, FL area for many years. He has worked as an RN in CVICU, ER, and as a hospital nursing educator teaching critical care courses such ACLS, BCLS, 12 lead EKG, balloon-pumps, PA catheters, and more. He has been a family nurse practitioner for 25 years and has worked in a private rural practice, an ER and in a faith-based community clinic focused on the uninsured. Dr. Busby has 19 years of higher education teaching experience. He served as a faculty member at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where he served as the Nurse Practitioner Programs Coordinator and the Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. He also served as a faculty member at Vanderbilt University teaching Nurse Practitioner and doctoral students. His research experience includes having worked with members of the United States Space and Rocket Center’s Geo-Spatial Lab and the Alabama Department of Homeland Security on a first-of-its-kind in the nation, state-wide situational awareness program. He has done consulting work for a Huntsville-based engineering firm working on a Department of Defense combat casualty care program. He was a member of a federal Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) from Alabama. His original research and theory on Situational Awareness in Multi-Casualty Incidents is published in the Journal of Emergency Nursing.

Presentations
Podium Presentation: Seeking the How and Why: Usefulness of Qualitative Data for DNP Projects and Clinical Inquiries. (2021) North Alabama Nurse Practitioner Association Annual Clinical Symposium. September 17.

Invited Podium Presentation: Nurse Practitioners and Disaster Response: Innovation, Research, Education and Practice. (2018) American Association of Nurse Practitioners Annual Conference. Denver, Colorado, June 26 – July 1.

Poster Presentation: Exploring the Perceived Barriers to Long-Acting Reversible Contraception in Women Receiving Treatment for Opioid Addiction. (2018) National Nurse Practitioner Symposium. Keystone, Colorado, July 20-22.

Use of a New Nursing Theory in for Disaster Simulation; (2017) 13^th Annual Faculty Development Conference, University of Kentucky, May

JNC-8; An Evidentiary Exemplar; (2017) North Alabama Nurse Practitioner Association Annual Clinical Symposium. September

Publications
Espiritu, E., Busby, S., Hunt, J., Brown, R., Hallmark, B., (2021) Students’ Self-Perceptions of Self-Awareness/Self-Regulation when Experiencing Unexpected Situations in an Interprofessional Clinical Simulation, Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences, Vol. 19 (1), Article 11

Espiritu, E., Busby, S., (2021) Meaning and Impact of Interprofessional Simulation Participation for Occupational Therapy Students: A Qualitative Descriptive Study, Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, Vol. 5(2), Article 8

Espiritu, E., Michaels, N., Busby, S., (2020) Educational Impact on Therapists’ Knowledge, Beliefs and Actions: A Pilot Study, The Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice Vol. 18(1), Article 11

Busby, S., (2019) Spiritual Considerations for the Christian Student Nurse, Journal of Christian Nursing Vol. 36(4), pp. E54-E58

Smith, C., Morse, E., Busby, S., (2019) Barriers to Reproductive Healthcare for Women with Opioid Use Disorder, Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, Vol. 33(2), pp.E3-E11

Busby, S. (2015). Insider Insights: Grounded Theory Research. In Corbin, J., Strauss, A, Basics of Qualitative Research, Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications (pp. 81-84).

Busby, S., (2013) Essay: Father Time, Tabula Rasa, Vanderbilt School of Medicine's Journal of Medical Humanities (March Edition)

Gross, B., Anderson, F., Busby, S., Frith, K., (2013) Using Culturally-Sensitive Education to Improve Adherence with Anti-Hypertensive Regimen, Journal of Cultural Diversity, 20(2), pg. 75-79

Busby, S., Essay: When Heroes are Human, Tabula Rasa, Vanderbilt School of Medicine's Journal of Medical Humanities (March 2012)

Busby, S., Witucki-Brown, J., Theory of Situational Awareness in Multi-Casualty Incidents, Journal of Emergency Nursing, (2011) 37(5), pg.444-452

Busby, S., Speraw, S. & Young, How Nursing Intersects with Disaster Planning. Journal of Christian Nursing. Peer-reviewed journal. (2008) 25 (4), pg. 213-218

Professional Organizations
Sigma Theta Tau International, Omicron Phi Chapter
American Association of Nurse Practitioners
North Alabama Nurse Practitioner Association
Nursing Christian Fellowship

Honors & Awards
Sara K. Archer Award winner for Outstanding FNP faculty member, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. (2017)
Sara K. Archer Award winner for Outstanding FNP faculty member, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. (2016)
National Professional Role Award Recipient, American Assembly for Men in Nursing (AAMN) (2011)
Outstanding Dissertation Award, Sigma Theta Tau, Gamma Chi Chapter, University of Tennessee Knoxville. (2010)
Spirit of Nursing Award, University of South Alabama FNP program, (1997)
Student Nurse of the Year, Troy University, Dothan Campus. (1996)