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.