Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing: News and Events

Healing Troubled Minds: In the most recent edition of Minority Nurse, Dr. Faye Gary discusses psychiatric-mental health nursing as a specialty in urgent need of more minority nurses from all racial and ethnic backgrounds. Read more.
Representatives from FPB's Newest South Korean Partner Institution Pay a Visit: For two weeks in January and February, a professor and five elite undergraduate nursing students from Choonhae College of Health Sciences in Ulsan, South Korea have been undergoing an activity-laden, whirlwind tour of FPB, the surrounding campus of Case Western Reserve University, and some of the clinical sites around Cleveland where their FPB counterparts rack up their clinical hours. Read more.

January 2010

FPB Study to Help Patients on Ventilators Put Some Muscle into Recovery: Few people have thought about providing an exercise regimen in the intensive care unit, especially for patients on ventilators, but Dr. Chris Winkelman will be doing some bedside coaching to get patients stretching and flexing their muscles. Read more.
Special Workshop to Focus on Bringing People with Disabilities into Research Studies: Case Daily previews the FIND Lab's February 9 workshop, Avoiding Unintended Bias: Approaches to Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Research.
CWRU Avatars to Help Patients Talk to Docs: Dr. John Clochesy's new Electronic Self-Management Resource Training to Reduce Health Disparities (eSMART-HD) project, which utilizes avatars to enable healthcare professionals and their patients communicate with each other in new ways, is featured in Crain's Cleveland Business. Download the PDF here.
- Practice Makes Patients: Read about the project in Kaye Spector's weekly "Vital Signs" column of The Plain Dealer (scroll to the end of the column).
Who Do You Trust about Health Insurance Reform?: Alum and President of the American Nurses Association Rebecca Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR explains why doctors and nurses are calling for reform in a video by Vice President Joe Biden.
Needs of Older Caregivers of Patients with Advanced Cancer: Barbara Daly, Sara Douglas, Amy Lipson, and Helen Foley contributed an article to a special issue on cancer and primary care for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
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Theresa Backman, Community Hero 2009: Post-Master's DNP student Theresa Backman is featured in The Plain Dealer for her work as a volunteer at the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center.
Reusing Respirators and Managing Supplies While Living Up to Safety and Health Expectations: Dr. Irena Kenneley addresses the issue of how small healthcare facilities such as outpatient clinics can eliminate the risk of H1N1 infection. With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) declaring support of CDC guidelines that require the use of N95 respirators over surgical masks to protect against the virus, she emphasizes the need for proactive measures.

December 2009

BSN Seniors Present Their Posters from Their Capstone Experience: The BSN Capstone project brings undergraduate nursing students directly into various underserved communities around the world, where they work both to improve public health efforts and to learn firsthand the importance of culturally competent care. Watch videos of BSN students presenting their findings.
Registered Nurses in High Demand as Well-Paying Field Continues to Grow: Dr. Patricia Underwood talks to The Plain Dealer about the nursing profession's "recession-proof" status due to the growing strain on health care from aging baby boomers and the global nursing shortage. Read more.
AAN Living Legends, Fellows Announced: Congratulations to Ruby Leila Wilson, MSN ’59, Distinguished Alumna ’96 (pictured), for being named one of the 2009 American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Living Legends. Living Legends are outstanding fellows who have made extraordinary and sustained contributions to nursing and health care. Congratulations also go to Myra Martz Huth, PhD ’02, and Judith Shamian, PhD ’88, Distinguished Alumna ’02, on being named AAN fellows at this year’s annual meeting and conference. Dr. Shamian also made history as the first international nurse to be inducted into the AAN. Read more and watch a video about Ruby Wilson’s work.
Alumna Becomes President of American Psychiatric Nurses Association: Mary D. Moller, DNP ’06, associate professor and specialty director for psychiatric-mental health nursing at the Yale University School of Nursing, became the 2009-2010 president of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association in October. “Since graduating [with the Doctor of Nursing Practice] I have been inducted into AAN and named director of the psychiatric nursing master’s program at Yale,” she says. “Neither of those professional accomplishments would have happened had I not possessed the prestigious DNP degree from Case Western Reserve University.” Read more.
BSN Capstone Students Go for the Gold: Instructor Linda Boseman and seven senior BSN students recently hosted the annual Longfellow Winter Olympics at Collinwood High School, an event that serves as both a capstone project and a demonstration to the community that fitness can be fun. Read more.
Nursing Schools ‘Go Global’ to Improve Community Health: Dr. Elizabeth Madigan, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Research and Clinical Training in Home Care Nursing at FPB, explains that the growing aging population is a worldwide phenomenon, regardless of a nation’s economic status. Read more.
Composite Outcomes of Chronically Critically Ill Patients 4 Months After Hospital Discharge: Barbara Daly, PhD, RN, FAAN, publishes a research article for the American Journal of Critical Care.
- Poor Outcomes Reported for Chronically Critically Ill Patients Leaving Hospitals on Ventilators: Doctor's Guide Channels
- Researchers report poor outcomes for CCI patients leaving hospitals on ventilators: Physorg.com
- CWRU researchers report poor outcomes for CCI patients leaving hospitals on ventilators: ScienceBlog.com
- Case Western Reserve Researchers Find Patients Discharged from Hospitals on Ventilators and With Cognitive Impairments Have Poor Outcomes: Case Western Reserve University News Center
- Visit the BEST Center website

November 2009

Taking Care of Unfinished Business at the End of Life is the Focus of Research Nursing and Psychology Collaborations: Hospice workers have watched patients emerge from comas and cling to life long enough to tell someone they love or forgive them. This phenomenon of taking care of unfinished business has been observed, but researchers from FPB and the College of Arts and Sciences will begin groundbreaking studies to understand what drives the dying to live long enough to resolve these issues. Read more.
Testing New Fluorescent Lighting for Synchronizing Older Patients' Sleep-Wake Cycles: Change the lighting; improve your health. It’s a strategy researchers from FPB and the School of Medicine, the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center (GRECC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center, and GE Consumer & Industrial have begun to test in a long-term care facility where daylight, which has proven health benefits, is not readily available. Read more.
DNP Option Keeps Nurses Focused on Bedside Care: Since FPB created the practice doctorate more than 30 years ago, close to 100 schools of nursing around the country have begun to offer the program, including eight in New York and New Jersey. This article examines how FPB has influenced the nursing profession and sent other schools scrambling to catch up.
- DNP Program website
FPB Nursing Magazine's 2009 Reunion Issue: Featuring fond memories from Alumni Celebration 2009, the BSN Stimulus Package, Research at FPB, FPB Feats, Class Notes, and much more!
DNP Option Keeps Nurses Focused on Bedside Care: Nursing Spectrum examines the positive impact of FPB's Doctor of Nursing Practice on nurse leaders in New York and New Jersey who have earned the degree. Alumni Lisa Kosits, DNP, RN-BC CCRN, CEN, CPEN, and Carol Porter, DNP, RN, comment.
Study Looks at Link Between Oral Health and Pneumonia in Patients on Ventilators: Think, the Magazine of Case Western Reserve University, reports on the NIH-funded research of doctoral student Gina Luciano. An ICU surgical nurse practitioner, Luciano has witnessed firsthand the impact of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) on her patients. She will investigate whether there is a link between poor oral health and the development of VAP.
Virtual Coaching to Help Patients Talk to Doctors: Electronic Self-Management Resource Training to Reduce Health Disparities (eSMART-HD) is a screen-based simulation using avatars to promote self-efficacy in negotiating care with healthcare providers for those from medically and socially disenfranchised groups. Its goal is improved self-management of chronic illness and a reduction in health disparities. John Clochesy, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCCM, Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing Education, will direct researchers from the schools of nursing, medicine and engineering; the Mt. Sinai Skills and Simulation Center; and Beachwood-based software company, LogicJunction, is developing technologies with avatar doctors similar to the ones found in computer games to help patients hone their communications skills. Read the full News Center story.
- Visit the eSmart-HD website.
- CWRU to develop technologies for virtual coaching to help patient-doctor communications (EurekAlert)
- Medical News Today reports
Spotlight: The Journal of Gerontological Nursing presents an "illuminating portrait" of Sarah Hall Gueldner, DSN, RN, FAAN, the Arline H. and Curtis F. Garvin Professor of Nursing.
Awards pay tribute to outstanding alumni: Think, the Magazine of Case Western Reserve University, highlights Dean May L. Wykle for receiving the university's Distinguished Alumni Award.
Lightbulb study illuminates secrets to good night's sleep: Think reports on the recent blue-white light bulb collaboration led by Dr. Patricia Higgins.

October 2009

Finding Ways for Disabled People to Participate in Research is Goal of Case Western Reserve University Nursing School Study: Reuters and other news outlets report on this new project led by Shirley M. Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Ann Williams, PhD, RN.
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.
- [Video] Channel 19, Cleveland's CBS affiliate, reports on the campus clinics.
[Video] 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.
CWRU grant of nearly $800,000 to create center for researching urban health issues: The Cleveland Plain Dealer covers a grant awarded to the Case School of Medicine, on which FPB faculty will collaborate.
Case Western Reserve announces new faculty diversity officer: John Clochesy, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCCM, Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing Education, will oversee the Office of Faculty Diversity and be responsible for faculty diversity matters related to recruitment, employment and equal opportunity, including reviewing allegations of sexual harassment or discrimination against or about faculty and facilitating Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations for faculty members.
How do we know competence?: Dean emerita and Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing Joyce J. Fitzpatrick provides commentary on measuring competencies in the latest edition of Nursing Education Perspectives.
ICU patients on ventilators to flex and stretch in study: Few people have thought about providing an exercise workout in the intensive care unit, especially for patients on ventilators— even those who are comatose —but a researcher from Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University will be doing some bedside coaching and exercising to get patients stretching and flexing their muscles. 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. "No one likes to be sick and stay in bed," says Winkelman. "It feels good when you are healthy to exercise, and we think ICU patients can also benefit from exercising." Read the rest of the article.
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.
- Crain's Cleveland Business covers the school's ARRA grants
- Healthcare industry insider Mary Vanac reports on the stimulus grants for MedCityNews
- Online newspaper The Cleveland Leader reports
- CWRU's Observer reports
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."
[Video] FPB alum and ANA president Rebecca M. Patton (MSN '98) appears with President Obama to address the American Nurses Association. From the President's speech: "I was mentioning to Becky [Patton] the first time we met that when I was in the state legislature I was the chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee, and one of my strongest allies...was the nurses association. [...] I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I just love nurses."

September 2009

Healthcare Leaders in Nursing to Meet at Case Western Reserve in October: When you think of an entrepreneur, a nurse usually isn't the first professional that comes to mind. But a panel of business-thinking graduates of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) hope to change that, the University News Center reports.
Doctoral Project Finds Poetry Transcends Life's Burdens: PhD student Lori Kidd's pilot poetry intervention project asked 20 caregivers of family members with dementia to put their pens to paper and write poetry to help them cope with their stress in a cathartic way. Summing up the project, Kidd says, "I see poetry as something that allows people to transcend their situations. Poetry can also be inspirational and motivational."
Improving Health and Raising Spirits: FPB Students Bring Fun, Education, and Encouragement to Cleveland’s Urban Youth. For five weeks during the summer of 2009, 11 BSN students at FPB participated in the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP). Mike Zebrowski, Emily Gardner, and Lauren Wilson talk about their work with 500 local schoolchildren as part of their required senior capstone experience.
It's a Jungle Out There!: FPB's Center for Research and Scholarship held its traditional celebration to recognize faculty, staff, and students who have received awards, grants, promotions, and other distinctions throughout the year.
Prescriptive power of Ohio nurses may change: Dr. Carol Savrin comments on a bill being considered by the Ohio state legislature that would expand the power of advanced practice nurses (APNs) to prescribe certain pain medications.
- Case Daily's coverage of Dr. Savrin's commentary.

August 2009

UPDATE: Loan program at FPB to help solve nursing faculty shortage: Dr. Jaclene A. Zauszniewski has been successful in obtaining funding from HRSA for the Nursing Faculty Loan Program for doctoral students at FPB since 2003. Now, with additional funds provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, MSN students interested in becoming nursing faculty can also get involved.
- [Video] WKYC-TV Channel 3 talks to Dr. Patricia Underwood, Executive Associate Dean of Academic Programs, about this program and the nursing shortage.
- Stimulus money will fuel nurse-faculty loan program (MedCity News)
Author and nurse Greg Mortenson visits FPB: Greg Mortenson, the nurse who authored the best-selling book Three Cups of Tea, visited FPB on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 to discuss how nurses can play critical roles as leaders, health advocates, and ambassadors of friendship and good will around the world. He is Case Western Reserve University's 2009 Fall Convocation speaker.
- [Audio] Greg was also interviewed on the August 26 edition of Around Noon with Dee Perry on WCPN 90.3 (NPR) and mentioned his time with FPB students.
Weigh in on the Future of Nursing: Dr. Joyce J. Fitzpatrick comments on the Initiative on the Future of Nursing, a two-year effort to find solutions to the continuing challenges facing the nursing profession.
Flight Nurses in Training to the Rescue: Case Daily reports on the August 14 disaster drill at the National Flight Nurse Academy summer camp at the university's farm in Hunting Valley, Ohio.
Tweeting from the Trenches: FPB's marketing officers live Tweeted the disaster drill at the National Flight Nurse Academy summer camp. The feed transcript details the scenario from start to finish.
[Video] Anatomy of a Disaster Drill: FPB graduate student and National Flight Nurse Academy summer camp coordinator Jonathan Wylie explains the August 14 disaster drill--the culimnation of the camp's curriculum that involved 75 volunteers posing as victims of an earthquake and gas line break for flight nursing students to triage, treat, and transport.
Interview with flight nursing's Chris Manacci: WTAM spoke with Chris Manacci live from the National Flight Nursing Academy summer camp to get the lowdown on flight nursing as a career and the camp's disaster scenario.
[Video] Disaster "victims" are needed for the planned drill at the 7th Annual Flight Nursing Summer Camp; all members of the university community are invited to participate. This YouTube video displays images of past drills as well as next steps for anyone interested in volunteering.
The latest Alumni Class Notes reveal the many contributions our graduates make to nursing practice and scholarship and to health care in general.
The International Council of Nurses, the NLN, and You and I: In her latest editorial for Nursing Education Perspectives, Dr. Joyce J. Fitzpatrick details how the innovative use of ICN's new Education Network will allow nursing faculty to share expertise and resources as well as provide students with links to other students throughout the world.
Award-winning undergraduate: The News-Leader (Portage County, Ohio) salutes BSN student Jessica E. Kuczmarski for receiving the Bolton Scholar Award for Excellence in Nursing and the the Bolton Scholar Sophomore Award for Academic Achievement.

July 2009

[Video] Looking for a new career? Dr. Deborah Lindell appears on WKYC Channel 3 to discuss the fantastic opportunities that await those who choose nursing as a profession.
Thank you! Our students salute all our generous donors for making their education at FPB and Case Western Reserve University possible.
New University Center on Aging and Health Grants Inspire New Research on Aging: FPB's University Center on Aging and Health recently received money from the President's Strategic Initiatives Fund with support from the McGregor Foundation.
American Nurses Association President & FPB alumna Rebecca M. Patton joins President Obama in the Rose Garden to Help Urge Health Care Reform: President Obama was joined by members of the ANA in the White House Rose Garden Wednesday, July 15, 2009 as he reaffirmed his commitment to reform the U.S. healthcare system.
DNP Student Ann Serenko Gets the Gold: Ann Serenko, MS, RN is currently a DNP student as well as Director of Clinical Research at UH's Lakeside Hospital. She recently returned from attending the 3rd World TaeKwanDo Culture Expo in Junju, South Korea, where she won the Gold Medal in the Women’s Black Belt division for Poomse (Forms).
Spirituality and connections may help women manage chronic illness: Principal investigators Camille Warner and Kathryn Betts Adams, via funding from the University Center on Aging and Health, are working to find out if these factors play a role in how women 65 years and older manage and cope with such chronic illnesses as arthritis, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancers, heart disease, and other health issues.
- HealthJockey.com
- Physorg.com
FPB Students and Faculty Teach Life-Saving Skills to NYSP Participants: There are some wet lessons in saving lives. Fourth-year FPB students Leslie Jones, Cindy Meng and Jacquelyn Smith are having a splash while teaching 500 campers in the National Youth Sports Program how to swim and tread water and stay healthy.

June 2009

Try to Relax: Dr. Judith Maloni's pregnancy bed rest research featured in Australian magazine: Babble Australia asks, "Bed rest is prescribed by 90 percent of obstetricians, but does it do any good?" Visit FPB's pregnancy bed rest website for more details.
Carol Savrin, DNP, CPNP, FNP, BC selected as Fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP): Dr. Savrin received the honor on June 20, 2009 at the AANP annual conference. AANP is the first national organization created for nurse practitioners of all specialties, and the Fellows program recognizes "nurse practitioner leaders who have made outstanding contributions to health care through nurse practitioner clinical practice, research, education, or policy."
Challenges of Raising Technology-Dependent Children: Advance for Nurses features FPB instructor Valerie Toly, MSN, CPNP, RN, who is researching how families cope with children dependent on technology for their breathing, nutrition, and cardiovascular function.
Giving Patients Brighter Days to Help Them Sleep at Night (Plain Dealer: June 9, 2009)
Postdoctoral fellow Ann S. Williams, PhD, RN, penned the essay My Life with Diabetes: A Play in Four Acts for the Summer 2009 issue of Think magazine. The article details how diabetes has affected her family, her life, and her research, as well as her advocacy for a proposed Ohio bill that would require health insurance companies to cover diabetes self-management education and supplies necessary to prevent complications among patients.

May 2009

A ‘Light Bulb’ Moment for People with Dementia: Dr. Patricia Higgins is part of a Case Western Reserve-led collaboration that tests whether new fluorescent lighting developed by GE can synchronize hospitalized patients’ sleep-wake cycles. FPB is joined with the School of Medicine, the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center (GRECC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center, and GE Consumer & Industrial on this exciting project.
Related articles from news centers worldwide:
Congress celebrates National Nurses Week by honoring Frances Payne Bolton's sponsorship of the Bolton Act: Congressman Steven C. LaTourette, who represents Ohio's 14th district, recognized the achievements of Frances Payne Bolton and the impact of the Bolton Act on nursing on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on May 7, 2009.
[Audio] Nurses in America Still In-Demand In Down Economy: Dean May Wykle was interviewed on radio's Voice of America to discuss the outlook of the nursing profession and the exciting opportunities that exist for nurses despite the ailing economy. She also paid tribute to the legacy of Frances Payne Bolton, who sponsored 1943's Bolton Act.
Dean May Wykle, Health Care Hero: Dean Wykle was chosen as the winner of the Health Care Hero award by Crain's Cleveland Business. For more than five decades, Dr. Wykle has consistently demonstrated her commitment to nursing research and its importance to the profession of nursing.
- See photos and video clips from the award ceremony here.
- Read this update from the University's News Center.

April 2009

Assistant Professor Dr. Irena Kenneley takes live questions about the swine flu pandemic: A clinical nurse specialist and expert on infection control and prevention, Dr. Kenneley serves as a health expert on 19ActionNews.com in a live chat format.
- A Cytokine Storm? Dr. Kenneley is featured in Advance for Nurses
Dozens of High School Students to Spend Time on Campus Gaining Exposure to Health Careers, College Life: FPB participates in the Bridging Pathways to Health Careers program, a collaborative project of Case Western Reserve University, Cuyahoga Community College, and Cleveland State University.
Psychological Distress in Mothers of Technology-Dependent Children: Instructor Dr. Valerie Toly featured in an expert interview in Medscape Today to discuss the high risk for psychological distress that mothers of technology-dependent children face. She also explains how pediatric nurse practitioners can help identify and manage psychological distress in these families.
[Audio] Raising Our Kids: Skin-to-skin contact is good for all babies, but it is especially good for infants that are born prematurely. Dr. Susan Ludington's kangaroo care study is featured on Pat Carroll's program on CBS News Radio 880.
BSN student Lauren Flaherty receives top award from the Midwest Nursing Research Society: Ms. Flaherty's poster and abstract, entitled "Relationships Among Sleep Duration, Sleep Quality, Fatigue, and Depression in Fathers of Twins" won First Place in the 2009 MNRS Undergraduate Student Poster Competition and a Citation Award for overall best abstract at the 2009 MNRS Conference.
[Video] 18th Annual Florence Cellar Conference aimed at helping caregivers: With the "baby boomer" generation aging and more children being diagnosed with special needs, there are a lot of families caring for a loved one at home. Dr. Diana Morris is interviewed by WKYC Channel 3's Maureen Kyle.
- UPDATE: FPB Presents Conference to Help Caregivers with Strategies to Stay Healthy
Dr. Jaclene Zauszniewski presented with the 2009 Melva Jo Hendrix Lectureship Award from the International Society for Psychiatric Nurses: The award recognizes psychiatric-mental health nurses "whose careers exemplify Dr. Hendrix's values and principles – her unswerving commitment to improving care for the underserved, stigmatized, or disenfranchised and her dedication to mentoring others."
Dr. Rick A. Martinez of Johnson & Johnson to speak at FPB's Commencement Reception and Ceremony: As medical director of Johnson & Johnson's Corporate Contributions and Community Relations, Dr. Martinez helps to support programs that promote the access to healthcare for women and children, disease prevention-education of youth, care & support of people living with HIV, and economic development through micro-enterprise.

March 2009

Learning about flight nursing: A profile in The Plain Dealer on FPB's special visitor during the last two months: Satomi Suzuki, a registered nurse and faculty member from Aichi Medical University in Japan.
Shirley Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN recognized at MNRS Conference: Dr. Moore was presented with the 2009 John A. Hartford Foundation/MNRS Award for Leadership in Geriatric Nursing Research at the Midwest Nursing Research Society 33rd Annual Conference. It honors those who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in geriatric nursing science and impacted quality of care for older adults through scholarship and mentorship.
Post-doctoral fellow and nurse diabetes educator Ann Williams, PhD, RN, appeared live on WKYC Channel 3’s noon news on Tuesday, March 24 to mark National Diabetes Alert Day. Anchor and senior health correspondent Monica Robins interviewed Williams, who talked about warning signs of diabetes, how to determine if someone is at risk, and her research on visually impaired people’s use of insulin pens. Along with Williams was Yoda, her service dog who responds to drops in blood sugar.
For Children With Technology Dependencies, Mothers Have Key Role In Family Life: FPB Instructor and PhD candidate Valerie Toly, RN, CPNP discusses her research on how families cope with taking care of children dependent upon technology.
Four new ways to stay connected with FPB! FPB now has a presence on social/media networking sites YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Click on the buttons below our left menu bar on any FPB webpage to get connected!
BSN student and Spartan first baseman Anneliese Fetterman ready for softball season: So why does a girl who grew up just 40 minutes south of San Francisco, California decide to go to college--and study nursing--in Cleveland, Ohio?
[Video] FPB joins up with Aichi Medical University College of Nursing to establish Japan's first graduate-level flight nursing program: Watch the video presentation on YouTube!
Diabetes Study to Test Use of Insulin Pens by Visually Impaired: Post-doctoral fellow and nurse diabetes educator Ann Williams, PhD, RN, who self-diagnosed her diabetes in 1991, explores how those who are both diabetic and visually-impaired cope with the disease.
The 18th Annual Florence Cellar Conference is Thursday, April 23, 2009. The theme this year is Intergenerational Family Caregiving: Self-Management in Caring for Each Other. Come join a gathering of community scholars and practitioners who will be examining various concepts and activities that foster and promote support and services to caregiving families.
Dr. Amy Zhang's "Stay Dry" intervention to test men with incontinence problems from prostate cancer treatments: Dr. Zhang and researchers from University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, and the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center are making use of a $2.4 million NIH grant to determine the effectiveness of teaching pelvic floor muscle exercises combined with biofeedback techniques and subsequent therapy. (EurekAlert!)
- Medical Intensive Care Keynote Lane (MICKL)

February 2009

A spirit of philanthropy: Tim Marshall, FPB's director of marketing and communications, is one of the young professionals profiled in The Plain Dealer.
FPB's new Quality and Safety website is unveiled: the Taskforce's mission is to prepare future nurses who will have the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work.
Is it safe for the blind to use insulin pens? Post-doctoral fellow Ann Williams, PhD, RN, CDE finds no evidence that insulin pen devices cannot be used by the visually impaired, and she urges insulin companies to remove all disclaimers. (Science Centric)
- News-Medical.Net (Australia)
Caring nurse knows that comfort is as simple as Cream of Wheat: FPB alumnus Kathy Kolcaba, MSN'87, PhD'97, RN and her holistic "comfort theory" for patients are featured in The Sun Courier.
Case Western Reserve basketball and FPB asking fans to think pink: As part of the Women's Basketball Coaches' Association's (WBCA) "Pink Zone" initiative, the Spartan women will be wearing pink uniforms made possible by the FPB School of Nursing to raise public awareness of breast cancer.
- Women's Basketball Coaches' Association's (WBCA) "Pink Zone" Initiative
- Story update here!
A delegation of FPB faculty and students will present their research at the 10th National Conference on Cancer Nursing Research, sponsored by the Oncology Nursing Society. Click for details.
Stories from the Heart: FPB and WKYC Channel 3 present an ongoing series of "Untold Stories of the Heart," all true personal accounts from women about their experiences with heart disease. These stories were submitted as part of FPB's "Go Red for Women Day" campaign.

January 2009

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.

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