Dr Frances Hughes - UTS:Health graduate and the Chief Executive Officer of the International Council of Nurses [opens an external link] - was the recipient of the UTS Chancellor’s Award for Excellence at the 2016 UTS Alumni Awards last night.
Dr Hughes completed a Doctor of Nursing at UTS in 2003.
Since then, she has made a significant impact across the globe in general and mental health nursing leadership roles; she was the first nurse to be awarded the Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy by the Commonwealth Fund in New York, was a Fulbright Scholar and, in 2005, she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to mental health as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
“It is a great honour", says Hughes, who travelled from her home in Geneva, Switzerland, to receive the award.
Personally, it has meant stepping up and challenging myself, my philosophies, my beliefs and my knowledge of nursing and health.
The UTS Alumni Awards recognise the university’s most outstanding and inspiring alumni.
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