Kelly Hughes RPN, BScMH, MN, RN(NP)
Assistant Professor - Academic Programming

Kelly Hughes is dually qualified as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse and a Registered Nurse, completing a BScMH from Brandon University in 2001. She completed a Master of Nursing - Nurse Practitioner from the University of Saskatchewan (USask) in 2008.

Kelly has spent most of her nursing career providing care to vulnerable populations in a variety of roles including acute and community mental health and addictions, in correctional settings and inner- city health clinics.  Nursing education has been an important part of her work, teaching in the Psychiatric Nursing Program at Brandon University and Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Saskatchewan.

• Mental health and addiction
• Infectious disease management
• Women's health
• Primary health care delivery models
• Palliative care

• NURS 878: Practicum III Advanced Practice Nursing with Vulnerable Populations
• NURS 879: Advanced Health Assessment & Diagnostic Reasoning II
• NURS 880: Practicum I Advanced Nursing Practice in Primary Health Care
• NURS 883: Theory for Advanced Practice Nursing Roles and Primary Health Care
• NURS 888: Practicum II Nursing Therapeutics and Advanced Management