Barbara Mark, PhD, RN, FAAN

Dr. Mark is a professor emerita of the UNC School of Nursing. She spent her career of more than 40 years in the study of work environments, quality and safety in acute care hospitals.

2014 Award Selection Committee, Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research

2013 Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research PathPaver Award

2011 Visiting Professor, Hadassah University, Jerusalem, Israel

2010-2011 Visiting Professor, New York University

2010-2011 Carrington Leave

2011 Excellence in Doctoral Mentorship and Education Award presented by PhD students at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing

2010 Research Mentor of the Year Award, Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues, AcademyHealth

In Press:

Zimba, C. C., Leeman, J., Mark, B.A., Sherwood, G., van der Horst, C.M. (2021). Supporting the implementation of guidelines to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Malawi: A multi-case study. Malawi Medical Journal.

In Preparation:

Patel, E., Dusetzina, S.B., Holmes, G. M., Jones, C.B., Mark, B.A., (2021).
Impact of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Policies on Preventive Service Utilization.

Published

Tubbs-Cooley HL, Mara C, Carle AC, Mark B.A, Pickler RH. (2019) Association of Nurse Workload with Missed Nursing Care in the Neonatal ICU. JAMA Pediatrics. 173(1):44-51.

Wu, J-R., Mark, B.A., DeWalt, D., Dunlap, S., Chang, P., & Knafl, G. (2019). A multi-component, family-focused and literacy-sensitive intervention to improve medication adherence in patients with heart failure. Heart & Lung, 48(6):507-514.

Patel, E., Peterman, V., & Mark, B.A. (2019). Does state-level Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Regulation Affect Access to Care? Western Journal of Nursing Research, 41(4):488-518.

Invited commentary to appear with print edition: Mark, B.A. & Patel, E. (2019). Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice: What do we know and where do we go? Western Journal of Nursing Research, 41(40:483-487.

Co-investigator: Enhancing high reliability care in neonatal intensive care units. National Institute of Child Health and Development 3/20 – 2/25 1 R01 HD100455-01

• Organization and delivery of care in acute care health systems
• Using large secondary databases
• Longitudinal methods in organizational research