Mrs Rachel Price
School of Health & Society
Mary Seacole Building
Frederick Road Campus
Salford
M6 6PU
Current positions
Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing
Biography
Registered mental health nurse, educator and researcher with a career spanning three decades across clinical practice, education, strategic leadership and research.
Since qualification in 1996 experience has been gained in acute adult mental health, community mental health nursing and severe mental illness in older adults, the work in this field shaped specific interests in dementia care especially vascular dementia and the care of people dying with dementia. Appointed as the lead for older peoples mental health liaison nursing in 2009, provided an opportunity to develop services in social care, crisis response, intermediate care, care homes and palliative care in addition to leading on the older peoples offer for an integration vanguard project and delivery of substantive mental health care provision.
Transitioning to academia in 2019 as a mental health lecturer at Salford University, as a programme lead and senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University before returning to Salford in 2025 contributions include curriculum development, safeguarding lead roles, creation of research informed inclusive teaching, curriculum redesign, student progression, admissions, interprofessional collaboration and the development of mental health nursing simulation programmes.
Returning to Salford University in 2025 teaching continues across pre and post graduate nursing and allied professional programmes in addition to maintaining academic contribution to research.
Areas of Research
My research interests have focused on health improvement interventions for people living with a diagnosis of vascular dementia, palliative care for people dying with a diagnosis of dementia and since moving into higher education I have developed a research interest in dementia education for undergraduate nursing students.
Qualifications
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Fellow of the Higher Education Authority
2019 - 2020 -
Dementia Care
2007 - 2009 -
Specialist Practitioner in Mental Health
2001 - 2003 -
Mental Health Nursing
1993 - 1996
Publications
- Student Nurse Simulation: Preparedness for the care of people living with dementia - A review
- Exploring what progress is being made in the development of health promotion material for vascular dementia: A systematic review of the evidence
- Systematic Review: Role of health promotion in vascular dementia
- Proposing a cardiac model for Vascular dementia