Lisbeth Turner

Assistant Professor

Nursing

Biography

Lisbeth Turner, MSN, RN, PNP-BC joined the Wilkes Faculty as an Assistant Professor of Nursing in the spring of 2012. Her area of expertise is in acute and primary care pediatrics. Lisbeth earned the B.S.N. from Hahnemann University where she was accepted into the International Honor Society of Nursing- Sigma Theta Tau.   She then earned the M.S.N. degree from the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization as a Nurse Practitioner in Pediatric Primary Care. She maintains national board certification as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Past experience includes employment by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) as a Registered Nurse in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for nearly a decade and as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in the Children’s Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at CHOP. After spending many years in the acute care setting, she branched out into the pediatric primary care setting throughout the surrounding Philadelphia region. This coming semester, she will be co-teaching Nursing 210 “Fundamentals of Nursing” to undergraduate nursing students. She will continue to teach “Care of the Childrearing Family” as it is offered throughout the nursing curriculum. One of her future goals is to earn a terminal degree in nursing education.