Catherine Turner
Part-Time Lecturer
Research interests
- Nursing/nursing informatics
- Healthcare informatics
- Electronic health records
Education
- MBA, Plymouth State University
- BS in Nursing, College of Saint Teresa
Biography
Catherine Turner is a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University. She earned her bachelor’s in nursing from the College of Saint Teresa and her master’s in business administration from Plymouth State University. Turner is an adjunct professor at Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Health Informatics Program, and School of Nursing.
As associate vice president of MEDITECH, Catherine Turner is responsible for all clinical implementations, working closely with healthcare executives to ensure electronic health record (EHR) adoption is in accordance with best practices. She is an advisor on the Patient Safety Review Board and Customer Patient Safety Advisory Board and is passionate about ensuring that clinicians take advantage of technology to provide safer care while optimizing workflows.
Additionally, Turner is well-known as a leader in the nursing informatics community. She is the director of MEDITECH’s Nurse Informatics Program and spearheads the annual Nurse Conference. She is an active member of the HIMSS CNO-CNIO Vendor Roundtable Summit, a member of the Healthcare Information Management System Society and the American Nursing Informatics Association. Turner is a regular reviewer for the publications of MEDITECH’s Nursing Informatics Program for the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, as well as a popular presenter at nationwide conferences and past content expert for AHIMA publications.
Turner has over a decade’s worth of experience as a licensed registered nurse in both the acute and outpatient settings. As nurse manager at Concord Hospital, she helped lead the implementation of a patient care system and later became manager of mammography clinics in Bedford and Dover. Turner was invited to join the Gamma Epsilon chapter of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International.