Virtual Coaching to Help Patients Talk to Doctors

John Clochesy, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCCM, Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing Education, is leading an interdisciplinary research team for the two-year, $1.3 million National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities study, "Electronic Self-Management Resource Training to Reduce Health Disparities" (e-SMART-HD).  The goal of this stimulus grant-funded project is to improve communications between minority patients and their doctors. Read more.

Finding Ways for Disabled People to Participate in Research is Goal of New Study

Shirley M. Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Dean for Research and director of the SMART Center, is the lead investigator of a National Institute for Nursing Research-funded project, "Full Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities (FIND) in Self-Management Research." She was inspired by the work of her co- investigator, Ann Williams, PhD, RN, to search for ways to involve more disabled persons in the subject side of research activities. Read more.

Nursing students staff campus H1N1 nasal spray clinics; dispel myths about the virus and the vaccine

No strangers to community service, FPB students are administering the H1H1 influenza nasal spray vaccine to Case Western Reserve students, staff, and faculty at a series of clinics held all over campus. The nursing students are learning first-hand that their role is to educate as well as vaccinate. Read more.

Dean Wykle receives university’s distinguished alumni award

A triple alumna of Case Western Reserve and an advocate and leader within the global healthcare community, FPB Dean May L. Wykle was presented with the university’s 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award during the Grand Classes Luncheon and Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University during the recent Alumni Weekend and Homecoming. Read more.

ICU patients on ventilators to flex and stretch in study

Chris Winkelman, assistant professor of nursing, will study the benefits of a range of exercises for people bed-bound, awake or comatose, and hooked to ventilators for breathing, to see if the workouts improve their physical and mental health. She will lead a two-year, $431,000 National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Nursing Research study funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

FPB receives $3.7 million in federal stimulus funding

FPB was recently awarded six grants from various federal offices to establish a new center of excellence and expand an existing one, fund new research efforts to investigate reducing health disparities and test the effects of early therapeutic mobility among hospital patients, and combat the nursing faculty shortage. Read more.

FPB receives re-designation as a WHO Collaborating Center for Research & Clinical Training in Home Care Nursing

Silvina Malvárez of the Pan American Health Organization/WHO in Washington, DC remarks:

"We are very proud of this Institution and thank our colleagues for the will to collaborate with the development of nursing in our region and in the world. We congratulate all our colleagues in the schools that make these contributions happen, and we celebrate this event and look forward to working together."

approximate number of service hours BSN students provide to local schools each year

number of clinical hours (nearly twice the national average) each BSN student fulfills before graduating

Endowed in 1923 and named after Frances Payne Bolton (1885-1977)

The most endowed professorships of any nursing school in the country

FPB alums have served as presidents of all major nursing organizations

Over 7,000 living alumni, with 40% living in Ohio

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