Mike Barker
School of Health and Society
Current positions
Lecturer in Adult Nursing & Admissions Tutor (Adult Nursing)
Biography
Mike qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1986 and subsequently enjoyed a clinical career in anaesthetic nursing in England and Germany. In 1991 Mike entered nurse education and in 1996 entered higher academia with the University of Salford where he has remained ever since. Mike's personal interests include football (being an avid Manchester United fan), travel and playing the guitar. Some of his proudest achievements include gaining a Private Pilot’s Licence in the USA in 2006 and being awarded the Blair Collister Memorial Academic Prize in 1996 by the University of Manchester.
Module member
- Pre-Registration Contemporary Issues in Nursing module
- Post Qualifying Clinical Decision Making
- Reasoning & Judgement module
Manual Handling trainer
- Pre-registration BSc (Hons) in Nursing
Member of Faculty
- Acute Illness Management course
International Link Lecturer
- Hochschule Fulda,
- Germany
- Personal Teacher/Academic Assessor
- University Link Lecturer to 5 clinical links at the Royal Bolton Trust
- Clinical skills development
- Admissions & recruitment
- Perioperative nursing
Qualifications
- 1986: Registered General Nurse (Rochdale School of Nursing)
- 1995: Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Nursing Education BA (Hons) (University of Manchester)
- 1995: Registered Nurse Teacher (RNT) (United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery, & Health Visiting)
- 2003: Master of Philosophy MPhil (United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery, & Health Visiting)
Perioperative nursing, anaesthetic nursing.