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Kathleen Hughes |
Kathleen has over 30 years experience as a nurse educator and over 40 years experience as a psychiatric/mental health nurse. She has practice experience in a variety of settings including children, adolescents, adult age groups and in acute care, long term care, residential, community and hospital settings.
Besides working as a nurse educator, Kathleen has worked in a variety of nursing roles including staff and charge nurse, Director of Nursing at a psychiatric children’s hospital, Director of Community Mental Health Program for chronic mentally ill people, and consultation work with an inpatient psychiatric unit. She has also taught in a part-time capacity for two other nursing universities in their psychiatric/mental health courses. She has been an item writer for the national nursing licensure exam and has taught review courses for NCLEX-RN exam for KAPLAN. She is a member of the American Nurse’s Association, Sigma Theta Tau, Missouri Nurse’s Association, University of Kansas Alumni Association and serves on the board of Saint Luke’s College Nursing Honor Society. She has held certification in the area of psychiatric/mental health nursing since its inception.
Her publications have included articles on teaching trans-cultural nursing, managing psychiatric emergencies in the workplace, helping employees cope with economic uncertainty, components of the short term psychiatric unit and painful rib syndrome. She has published in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, American Association of Occupational and Health Nurses Journal and the Journal of Trans-cultural Nursing. She has also published three columns in the Nursing Network, a nursing publication of the K.C. Star and Knight Ridder and served on their board and MONA District 2 board.
