Nursing Leadership and Management

Patricia Kelly is Professor Emerita at Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana, where she served as Faculty and as Program Coordinator for the Associate Degree Nursing Program . She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from DePaul University and a Master's Degree from Loyola University in Chicago. She has taught Quality Improvement conferences for the Joint Commission and was the Director of Quality Improvement at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics. She has also edited and authored ten editions of textbooks on Nursing Leadership and Management, Nursing Delegation, and on the six Quality and Safety Education in Nursing(QSEN) elements, as well as authoring several nursing journal articles. She volunteers in a Level I Trauma Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois, has volunteered on health care trips to Nicaragua, and has been a Red Cross disaster relief volunteer. For most of her nursing career, she has worked part time as a staff nurse in an emergency department, as well as working full time as Nursing Education Faculty at Wesley-Passavant School of Nursing, Chicago State University, and Purdue University.