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Kimberly N. Hughes, DNP, RNC-OB, CNS

Associate Professor/Clinical

Dr. Hughes is an Associate Professor/Clinical and has worked at UT School of Nursing since Summer of 2015. As a perinatal clinical nurse specialist, Dr. Hughes is an expert in maternal care practices from conception through the early postpartum period. Dr. Hughes is certified in inpatient obstetric care. Dr. Hughes teaches in Care of the Childbearing Family Clinical (N3208) and is the course coordinator and primary instructor for Care of the Childbearing Family theory course (N3207). She also periodically teaches some OB content in the accelerated Family Nursing clinical course (N3373). Dr. Hughes is the primary instructor for the OB content within the Disease Management theory courses (N4502) and teaches in the corresponding clinical course (N4533). Dr. Hughes engages students in community health promotion activities such as breastfeeding education, infant safe sleep and shaken baby prevention thereby increasing knowledge within the community and fostering understanding about the importance of patient education for the nursing students.  Dr. Hughes also mentors DNP students on their final project in the DNP project implementation and dissemination courses (N7305, N7306 and N7307) and guest lectures in the DNP Dissemination course (N7307)