BRET BARKER

My name is Bret Alan Barker, I am a Doctor of Nursing practice and family nurse practitioner. I am a registered nurse public health nurse and critical care registered nurse. I am a member of the Sigma Theta Tau international nursing Honor Society. I worked full time while going to college for over 12 years. I have earned five degrees while working full time in healthcare. From the intensive care unit to the emergency room, trauma, surgical, medical, and cardiac ICU. I have circulated and assisted in the operating room, step-down units progressive care units, and in surgery. I have cared for infants, children, and adults from premature babies at a Children's Hospital how to adults in their 90s for the past 16 years. I have worked the entire time while going to school while researching trying to help others. I am a seasoned ICU nurse CCRN, OR and ER nurse, Tele/Stepdown, CCU, Trauma ICU, Medical ICU. I taught nursing theory and clinical since 2008 in an associate degree nursing program at Gavilan College from 2008 to 2018 and was the assistant director of their registered nursing program. I taught RN to BSN at a local California State University from 2018 TO 2019. To my students in the past, please keep it up, you know how I am. Think, and talk to your patients and do it right. You make a difference. I am so glad to keep it touch with so many I know in healthcare. We rock.