Celebrating Teaching: Nancy Barnes

Nancy Barnes is a faculty lecturer at the University of Alberta Faculty of Nursing. Photo: Supplied.

Faculty Lecturer Nancy Barnes has been teaching with the Faculty of Nursing since 2008 and has worked in nursing education since 2002. She has taught a variety of courses including obstetrics clinical, surgery clinical, community-based clinical, theory courses and several labs. She views her teaching practice as an honour, a privilege and a means of providing nursing service to the public.

Learn more about Barnes in this Q & A.

What do you teach? 

I mainly teach the N323/433 community health clinical. I also periodically teach the N323/433 perinatal nursing lecture and lab and the N323/433 community lecture.

What do you love about Nursing?

I love the vast range of opportunities in this career. I have worked in labour and delivery in Canada, the Middle East and the U.S., as well as having been a home care case manager, teaching a variety of courses at MacEwan (2002-2008) and at the UA FON (2004-present) and in the Internationally Educated Nurse program at Mount Royal for one term in 2010. Currently, I also work in a casual position with AHS providing COVID-19 immunizations.

What inspires your passion for Nursing?

The opportunity for health promotion and illness prevention—to help people maximize their personal capacity to be well and healthy in their home setting.

What is one thing your students or colleagues don’t know about you?

I had straight hair until I got a perm when I was 15 years old—it never went back to straight!

Where is your favourite place on campus?

I love going to HUB Mall—it reminds me of my own student days in the late '80s.

If you had one piece of advice to give yourself as a student what would it be?

Look for opportunities to build up others

Anything you’d like to add? 

Nursing has been an awesome career choice.