Making our mark

Located at the heart of University Circle, Cleveland's renowned health care and cultural district, Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (FPB) is a globally recognized leader in nursing education. This site presents a variety of news stories, events, publications, and announcements related to our school.

FPB News and Events
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May 2012

  • Man with Diabetes Determined to Help Others with the Disease Live Well: Tom Tobin, a Cleveland Heights resident, lost his vision at age 21 due to complications from diabetes; since then, he’s devoted himself to raising money for education programs focused on prevention. He and FPB nursing research associate Ann Williams, PhD, RN, CDE organized a Swim for Diabetes team called the VIPs—Visually Impaired Persons. Read more.
  • FPB Collaborates with AACN to Expand Access to Doctoral Education: FPB's partnership with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the world’s largest specialty nursing organization, will give AACN's more than 80,000 members eligibility for partial scholarships from FPB to explore becoming clinical leaders or researchers with an intensive FPB health policy course. Read more.

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September 2011

  • FPB Doctoral Student Examines Over-the-Counter Drug's Impact on Chemotherapy Side Effects: Nurse practitioner and PhD candidate Beth Faiman is studying whether an over-the-counter medication known as Glutamine could ease chemotherapy side effects for people with blood and bone marrow cancers. She is one of few researchers studying the drug's effectiveness. Read more.
  • DNP Thesis Finds Parents of 9/11 Victims Suffer Too: DNP student Fran McGibbon's doctoral thesis examined parents of firefighters who died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center ten years ago. "The parents always struck me as an example of people that experienced such terrible tragedy but were forgotten about in the aftermath," she says. Read more.
  • Opportunities for Nurses Are Broad and Numerous: In 201 Careers in Nursing, co-author Joyce Fitzpatrick reveals that these days nurses do much more than monitor blood pressure and take a patient's temperature. They travel the high seas, work as crime scene investigators, and serve as expert witnesses. Read more.
  • Change Your Environment to Self-Manage Diabetes: Associate Dean for Research and Mellen Professor of Nursing Shirley Moore spoke at the American Association of Diabetes Educators conference last month on a new trend in self-management programs for diabetes: SystemCHANGE. She developed it as an ecological theory that considers four main influences of environment on behavior: family, physical, social, and community. Read more.

August 2011

July 2011

  • FPB Prepares Future Nurses for the OR Environment: Beginning this fall, FPB will introduce mandatory perioperative nursing content to its undergraduate curriculum, becoming one of the first nursing schools in the country to do so. Atkinson Scholar of Perioperative Nursing Rebecca Patton and BSN Program Director and Associate Dean of the Undergraduate Program Marilyn Lotas are overseeing this innovative new program. Read more.
  • A Quick Nap Is Good for You: Assistant Professor Elizabeth Click writes this week's special NetWellness column for The Plain Dealer, in which she demonstrates how research suggests that taking naps throughout the day can be one way of recovering a bit of the sleep debt that many people live with on a daily basis. Read more.
  • More Grandparents Taking on a Second Round of Parenting: More grandparents than ever are taking on the responsibilities of parenting their grandchildren, when the grandchild’s parents are out of the picture. This new role is causing extra worry, says Professor Carol Musil in USA Today. “It’s this magnified multi-generational parenting. They’re worrying about two generations of kids,” she explains. Read the full article.
  • Five Questions with Dean Mary Kerr: After 20 years, Mary Kerr has returned to her alma mater as FPB's new dean and the inaugural holder of the May L.Wykle Endowed Professorship in Nursing. She comes to Case Western Reserve University after serving as the deputy director of the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. Get to know more about her.
  • Communicating the Importance of Environmental Hygiene to Healthcare Workers: Assistant Professor Irena Kenneley's comments on contaminated environmental surfaces in healthcare facilities are featured in Infection Control Today, in which she discusses the impact of such contamination on patients and recommends continuous training to environmental services and housekeeping personnel. Read more.
  • June Watt, Emeritus Professor at FPB, Passes Away: On the evening of July 4, FPB Associate Emeritus Professor of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing June I. Watt passed away at the age of 93. She was an invaluable mentor to Dean May Wykle and many other proud nursing alumni. Read more.
  • Dean May Wykle To Be Inducted into International Hall of Fame for Nurse Researchers: Before stepping down as dean later this month, Dean Wykle will join a distinguished group of peers in July to be inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.  She is among 15 exemplars from the field of nursing to receive the honor during the Sigma Theta Tau International’s 22nd International Nurse Research Congress, July 14, in Cancun, Mexico. Read more.

June 2011

  • Shift Workers Struggle with Getting Sleep: Assistant Professor Elizabeth Click comments in The Plain Dealer about the detrimental effects of disrupted and inadequate sleep on the millions of Americans--including nurses and other health care professionals--who regularly work outside the typical daily schedule. Read more.
  • Melissa Pinto-Foltz Studies Ways to Help Teens Overcome Fears and Stigmas of Mental Illness: A KL2 Clinical Research Scholar and instructor at FPB, Dr. Melissa Pinto-Foltz wants to find the magical elixir that helps teens speak up, seek help, and then stick with treatments that get them feeling better. Read more.
  • Linda Burnes Bolton Delivers the 2011 Schlotfeldt Lecture: Dr. Bolton, a CWRU trustee, presented on the landmark Institute of Medicine's 2010 report in her lecture entitled "The Future of Nursing: Human Caring for All" on June 4. As Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, she was recently named One of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare Magazine and was also given an Honorary Alumna Award by the FPB Alumni Association and Dean May Wykle at the end of the discussion. Watch a video of her presentation.
  • FPB Names Mary E. Kerr as New Dean: President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that Mary E. Kerr will become the new dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, effective July 18. She comes to Case Western Reserve after five and a half years as Deputy Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. Read more.

May 2011

  • First Class of MN Students Graduates from FPB: Representing a new milestone for FPB's Graduate Entry program, 32 students received their Master of Nursing (MN) degrees on May 15. They are the first class to study and complete FPB's revised and enhanced pre-licensure curriculum, which was developed under the direction of Dr. Deborah Lindell over the past two years. Read more.
  • Combating the C. diff Microbial Terrorists on the Loose in Hospitals: Irena L. Kenneley calls for a need for mandatory standards for hand-washing monitoring and antimicrobial stewardship committees to oversee use of broad-spectrum antibiotics that wipe out the good bacteria along with the bad, as well as new technologies that can detect the presence of the bacteria after rooms have been thoroughly cleaned. Read more.
  • FPB's Ann S. Williams and Shirley M. Moore Call for Changing How Research Is Done: Despite the passage of the American Disabilities Act 20 years ago, people with limiting physical issues are still being barred from research studies. Via the National Institutes of Nursing Research/National Institute of Health funded Full INclusion of persons with Disabilities in self-management (FIND) Lab, FPB researchers Ann S. Williams and Shirley M. Moore want to change that restriction. Read more.

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  • Parents of Twins Slightly More Likely to Divorce: Associate Professor Elizabeth G. Damato comments on a Boston study analyzing divorce rates among parents of twins. She adds that these parents' stress and lack of sleep may be worse than in parents with one baby, thus serving as a potential contributing factor to the higher divorce rates. Source: Reuters. Read more.
  • Conference Highlights Technologies to Keep Seniors Living Independently: The 19th Florence Cellar Conference, “Aging 2.0:  Technology, Trends and Transitions," will be held on April 8, 2011 and is one of the first conferences in northeast Ohio that brings together researchers and technology developers interested in assisting older adults. Speakers will address the landscape of health care technology targeted at older adults, emerging and future trends in technology, and related policy and ethical issues. Read more.
  • Remembering Frances Payne Bolton for Women's History Month: The Plain Dealer honors Frances Payne Bolton, the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio and the creator of the U.S. Cadet Nursing Corps, who made her mark in politics, nursing education, and philanthropy. Read more.
  • Discover Mental Health: The Forgotten Piece in Elder Care: Dean May L. Wykle is prominently featured in a special video produced by the American Academy of Nursing's geropsychiatric collaboration with the John A. Hartford Foundation, in which she discusses her legacy of research in gerontology and psychiatric/mental health. Watch the video.
  • FPB Boosts Rankings for Graduate Programs: U.S. News and World Reports released its annual rankings for graduate-level health care education programs in March 2011, and there was good news for the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. While the school itself remains at #15 across the country for its overall graduate programs, the nurse anesthesia programs rose to #7 and #11, while nurse midwifery went up to #17. Read more.
  • Taiwanese Nursing Students Visit FPB for Nursing Skills and Educational Training Program: Continuing FPB's tradition of hosting international students for extensive training programs, Taiwan's Chang Gung Institute of Technology Department of Nursing sent eight undergraduate nursing students and a faculty member to FPB to engage in an intensive month-long training program incorporating a wide variety of nursing-related educational and clinical activities. Read more.

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December 2010

  • FPB Celebrates Home for the Holidays: Home for the Holidays is the event sponsored by FPB's International Health Programs office celebrating every country represented by our many international students. Students cook traditional dishes, so everyone has the opportunity to taste various kinds of delicious food from all over the world. This year's event was held on Friday, December 17. Take a look at some photo highlights.
  • BSN Capstone Students Present Posters at Intersections 2010: The Intersections: SOURCE Undergraduate Symposium and Poster Session was held on December 3, 2010 in Adelbert Gym. The event was sponsored by SOURCE, SAGES, and the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. View a photo slideshow.
  • Stimulus Money to Establish Campus Behavior Science Resource Lab: FPB's Associate Dean for Research Shirley M. Moore, in collaboration with the School of Medicine, received a one-year, $647,000 grant from National Institutes of Health, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to establish a new lab that will merge the FIND Lab (Full Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Research), the Survey Development Lab, and the Behavioral Measurement Core Facility. Read more.

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September 2010

  • E-SMART Technologies May Help Young Adults Manage Mental Illness: Melissa Pinto-Foltz, a postdoctoral scholar and instructor, joined an FPB-based research team that is developing and testing a software program called Electronic Self-Management Resource Training to Reduce Health Disparities (e-SMART-HD). Her goal is to improve the access to mental health services and mental health self-management for adolescents and young adults. Read more.
  • Nursing Beyond Borders: FPB's nursing program doesn't just take place in classrooms and hospital settings. Rather, our students travel throughout the local community, the United States, and the globe to work hands-on with a variety of populations as part of their Senior Capstone. Select members of this year's senior class are blogging from Cameroon, China, our newest capstone site in Alaska, and other locations to share how they are putting to use in remote, real-world settings what they've learned in class and during their clinical hours. Read more.
  • Sleep Music - Helping Old Persons Slumber Effectively: Recent studies by researchers in the Buddhist Tzu-Chi Standard Hospital in Taiwan and FPB shows that by listening to delicate sounding music through bedtime, more aged adults can have longer and better get to sleep. Read more.

August 2010

July 2010

  • Dr. Joyce Fitzpatrick's new book, Giving Through Teaching — How Nurse Educators are Changing the World, is featured in the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith website. Read more.
  • Third-Year BSN Student Volunteers Nursing Services to Rural Dominican Republic Villages: Although Eduardo Locci one day plans to take to the skies as a flight nurse and care for trauma patients, this summer he spent two unforgettable weeks as a volunteer nurse/medical assistant for a clinic called A Mother’s Wish in the Dominican Republic town of Los Pajones, which is a 30-minute drive from Santiago. Read more.
  • Making It Stick: Survivors of cardiac events have a hard time sticking with exercise programs after their recovery. Assistant Professor Mary A. Dolansky's research finds that one year after completing a 12-week rehabilitation following a cardiac event-a heart attack, bypass surgery or angioplasty, only 37 percent of her subjects exercised three times a week to keep their hearts healthy. Read more.
  • Two FPB Faculty Inducted into STTI's Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame: Shirley M. Moore, Susan M. Ludington, and two FPB alumni are among 22 nurses honored as leaders, mentors, scholars, and role models by Sigma Theta Tau International in 2010. Their awards, which were conferred at the 21st International Nursing Research Congress in Orlando, Florida, “recognizes nurse researchers who are STTI members who have achieved long term, broad national and/or international recognition for their work and whose research has impacted the profession and the people it serves.” Read more.
  • Comic Book Helps Families in Migrant Camps Eat Healthier, Decrease Obesity: Families who live in migrant camps usually don't have cars, are many miles from a grocery store, and don't have the time or kitchen tools for a lot of food preparation. The "convenient" choices they make -- food high in fat, sugar, and salt -- tend to degrade their health, though they don't always realize it, says Jill Kilanowski, assistant professor of nursing, who designed a colorful new intervention tool to help families make healthier choices. Source: The Plain Dealer. Read more.
  • Making It Stick: FPB researchers checked up on 248 individuals one year after completing a 12-week rehabilitation following a cardiac event-a heart attack, bypass surgery or angioplasty -- and found that only 37 percent exercised three times a week to keep their hearts healthy. "The study points out that interventions are needed to keep people exercising," says Mary Dolansky, assistant professor of nursing and the lead investigator of the study. Read more.
  • Accurate Delivery: Adjunct faculty and researcher Ann Williams demonstrates that visually impaired people with diabetes administer their insulin properly, and in some cases they do so better than their sighted counterparts. Read more.

June 2010

  • Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Grant to Enhance Physician and Nursing Education: FPB and the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have received a $640,000 grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation for the new Interprofessional Learning Exchange and Development (I-LEAD) Program. The project will involve several experience-based components to improve communication and collaboration among nurses and physicians in the interest of public health and to reflect changes in the healthcare system.
  • Most Heart Patients Skimp on Exercise After Rehab: Only about one-third of cardiac patients were doing regular heart-healthy exercises a year after a heart attack, bypass surgery or angioplasty, researchers have found. The research team, led by Mary Dolansky, PhD, RN, followed 248 patients after they completed a 12-week cardio rehabilitation program to help train them to exercise. Exercise patterns in the longitudinal study were tracked through heart monitors worn by the patients. After one year, only 37 percent of the patients were exercising even three times a week, the investigators found. Women were less likely than men to exercise, while younger men were more likely than women or older men to stick with their exercise program, the study authors noted. Source: BusinessWeek.
  • Health Study Seeking People 65+:Two Case Western Reserve University researchers are studying the health of older women to gain an understanding as to why some women of older age with a chronic illness do better than other women with the same illness. The study is funded by the University Center on Aging and Health. Source: Sandusky Register.
  • O'Linn Receives President’s Award for Distinguished Service: Kathleen O'Linn, who joined the university in 1994 and serves as the human resources manager for FPB, is supportive of causes and programs that have a transformational effect on people's lives. This shows in her work with the school’s Food for Thought professional development program and her leadership in the university’s Staff Advisory Council. Read more.
  • Comic Book Moms are Nutrition Heroes to Guide Migrant Family Health: Two Latina mothers are heroes in the new comic book, Small Changes Big Results. Their quest is to create a healthier lifestyle for their children and families and combat obesity, just like real-life moms in Latino farm workers' families who are concerned about the growing obesity problem among young children. Assistant Professor Jill Kilanowski says the goal of the project is to help families make healthy choices. Read more.
  • Dean Wykle to Step Down After a Decade of Leadership: On Monday, June 7, Dr. May L. Wykle, the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor & Dean of Nursing, announced that she will be stepping down as dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing effective January 1, 2011. Read more.
  • Faces of Nursing: Advancing Care: Changes in advanced practice nursing over time are intertwined with the story of how Dean May L. Wykle became a leading nurse educator. Deirdre Murphy, BSN '10, is also featured. Source: Cleveland magazine.
  • Choosing the Right Baby Bottle: Bottle feeding manufacturers offer an array of products that claim to be best for babies. Associate Professor Donna Dowling has been studying bottle and nipple systems and has tips for parents.
  • Nurse Educators Changing the World Highlighted in New Book: The quiet actions of unsung heroes from the rainforest of Guatemala to the city streets of Harlem will be celebrated during the 2010 International Year of the Nurse in Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing Joyce J. Fitzpatrick's new book, Giving through Teaching: How Nurse Educators are Changing the World (Springer Publishing). Read more.
  • Improving Patient-Doc Communications: FPB is leading an interdisciplinary research team in a two-year, $1.3 million National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities study called "Electronic Self-Management Resource Training to Reduce Health Disparities (e-SMART-HD)." Professor John Clochesy, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCCM, who is director of the study, discusses its goal of effecting long-term improvements in healthcare outcomes for those with chronic illnesses by providing an interactive, culturally relevant, accessible, and easy to use computer-based simulation system. Source: ADVANCE for Nurses. Read more.

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April 2010

  • Students from University of Hong Kong embark on third annual educational tour at FPB: For three weeks in March and April 2010, ten undergraduate nursing students from the University of Hong Kong School of Nursing visited FPB on an educational mission to learn about the American health care system and nursing. Their visit was coordinated by Associate Dean for the Undergraduate Program and Associate Professor Marilyn Lotas, PhD, RN and Samira Hussney, MPH, director of International Health Programs at FPB. Read more.
  • Making Hospitals Do the Right Thing in the Equitable Treatment of Gay and Lesbian Couples: FPB student services recruiter Peter Taylor is featured in a column by Pulitzer Prize-winner journalist Connie Schultz on President Barack Obama's recent order that mandates that most hospitals respect the rights of same-sex couples. Source: The Plain Dealer. Read more.
  • Five FPB Faculty Honored at 2010 MNRS Conference: FPB faculty illuminated this year's Annual Research Conference of the Midwest Nursing Research Society on April 8-11, 2010 in Kansas City, Missouri with five award wins, including two major honors for professors Joyce Fitzpatrick and Elizabeth Madigan. Other awards went to post-doctoral student Cathy Baker and assistant professors Mary Dolansky and Jill Kilanowski. Read more.
  • FPB Researchers Show Off Medical Possibilities: FPB's SMART Center and FIND Lab made a strong showing at Case Western Reserve University's Research Showcase on April 15, demonstrating how people with disabilities can be encouraged to participate in research studies. Source: MedCity News. Read more.
  • FPB Researchers Work to Keep Cardiac Rehab Patients on Track with Healthier Lifestyles: Assistant Professor Mary Dolansky, PhD, RN is leading a study that has found that only 37 percent of people who complete a cardiac-rehabilitation program after a cardiac event stick with the exercise in the future. Study co-investigator and Associate Dean for Research Shirley Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN also comments. Source: The Plain Dealer. Read more.
  • FPB's Diverse Educational Opportunities Attract Japanese Faculty Visitors: During the second half of March 2010, three junior nursing faculty members from Kagoshima University in Japan visited FPB to take part in nurse training programs and clinical experiences that will help them boost their curriculum offerings at their home institution. Read more.
  • New Study Examines Effectiveness of Telemonitoring Vital Signs: FPB's University Center on Aging and Health awarded a one-year pilot grant to Dr. Elizabeth Madigan and two others to work with 40 patients under the care of the Cleveland Visiting Nurses Association (VNA) of Ohio. They will examine how effective TeleCare, a home monitoring device the size of an alarm clock, is in keeping individuals with complex health issues healthy and out of the hospital. "We hope to find out which patients benefit the most from telehealth monitoring," Madigan says. Read more.
  • FPB's University Center on Aging and Health Funds New Project: Researchers throughout Case Western Reserve University will look for evidence within the brain for human beta defensin peptide function—proteins important to the peripheral body's natural defense system against infection from the outside environment. They will examine brain tissues to explore the possibility that the beta defensins contribute to degenerative brain diseases and in particular Alzheimer's disease (AD). Read more.

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  • A life forever changed by a flash of TV fame: The Plain Dealer presents a snapshot of former Survivor contestant and 2000 MSN alum Margaret Bobonich, who has led FPB students on three nursing missions to San Raymundo, Guatemala. (PDF)
  • Nursing instructor Valerie Toly, MSN, RN, CPNP will present her abstract, "Families of Children Who Are Technology Dependent" at the 2009 American Thoracic Society International Conference. The conference takes place on May 15-20 in San Diego, California and serves as one of the largest gatherings of pulmonary and critical care clinicians and researchers in the world.
  • Assistant Professor Evelyn Duffy, DNP, ANP/GNP-BC, FAANP, has been appointed to the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association's (GAPNA) expert panel on "Transitioning to Adult-Gerontology APRN Education: Ensuring the APRN Workforce Is Prepared to Care for Older Adults." GAPNA is "the organization of choice for advanced practice nurses who want to pursue continuing education in gerontological care and who seek peer support from experienced clinicians."
  • "Audio Instruction for Use of Insulin Pens by Blind People," a research project developed by post-doctoral student Ann Williams, PhD, RN, CDE, receives funding from the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) and Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). Dr. Williams' recent article, "Diabetes and Visual Impairment: Identifying Needs, Ensuring Full Accessibility," is available online at DiabetesVoice.org.
  • Post-Doctoral student Alberta Bee, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, CPNP receives grant funding from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Her research study is titled, "The Stress and Health of African American Women Transitioning from Motherhood to Early Grandmotherhood."
  • Assistant Professor Amy Zhang, MS, PhD receives funding for her research project Improving Urinary Continence and Quality of Life in Prostate Cancer Patients from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute.