Rate My Professor Barb Hooper

Dr. Barbara Hooper serves as Associate Professor and Traditional BSN Program Director in the Kirkhof College of Nursing at Grand Valley State University, where she has been faculty since 2008. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in Nursing from Grand Valley State University in 2012 and holds a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), along with credentials as a Registered Nurse (RN), Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE), and Nurse Executive Board Certified (NE-BC). Earlier in her career at GVSU, Hooper was Assistant Professor in the Occupational Therapy Program, holding a Master of Science (MS) and Occupational Therapist Registered (OTR) designation. Her scholarly work includes the publication 'Pragmatism and Structuralism in Occupational Therapy: The Long Conversation' in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy in 2002, exploring foundational philosophical tensions in the field. More recently, she authored 'An Evidence-Based Review of Educational Strategies to Facilitate Novice Nurses’ Transition to Practice' available through ScholarWorks@GVSU, and contributed to research on 'Knowledge Acquisition Based on Participant Role Assignment in a High-Fidelity Simulation,' published in Nursing Education Perspectives.