News and Events: FPB School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University

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.

April 2012

How to Keep Diabetes from Affecting Your Hearing: Addressing NIH figures showing that hearing-loss rates double among people with diabetes, research associate Ann Williams discusses this connection on the website Everydayhealth.com. Read more.
Stopping Workplace Bullying: Lucy Jo Atkinson Professor in Perioperative Nursing Rebecca M. Patton addresses how workplace bullying can adversely affect nursing staff dynamics and patient safety in a new publication by the American Nurses Association. Read more.
FPB Receives Prestigious Jonas Fellowship to Provide Leadership Development Support for PhD Candidates: Selected PhD students committed to careers in research receive $10,000 grants matched by the FPB School of Nursing; the awards help prepare them to address the needs of future patients. Read more.
A Global Commitment to Health: Visiting undergraduate nursing students from Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan took part in numerous educational and cultural activities at FPB throughout the spring semester, further advancing FPB's international health programs. Read more.
FPB Study Identifies the Point When Negative Thoughts Turn into Depression: A research survey tool called the Depression Cognition Scale (DCS), developed by Kate Hanna Harvey Professor in Community Health Nursing Jaclene Zauszniewski, is being used to determine when negative thinking establishes a pattern for the onset of clinical depression. Read more.

March 2012

Five Questions with Brandon Pach, Ohio Nursing Students Association President: Brandon, a junior in FPB's BSN program, discusses some of his career goals and busy extracurricular activities around the Case Western Reserve University campus. Learn more about him.
Diabetes Patients Benefit from Weight-Loss Surgery: Marla Evans, a department assistant at FPB, talked to NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams about her immediate drop in blood sugar after taking part as a volunteer in a recent study at the Cleveland Clinic focusing on the effects that weight loss surgery have on patients with type 2 diabetes. Read more.
High-Flying Nursing Professor Provides Life-Saving Support: Professor Elizabeth Madigan was on a red-eye flight from Bogota, Colombia to New York City when a fellow passenger required emergency assistance. Madigan stabilized him and stayed close until their plane arrived at its gate, where paramedics were waiting. Read more.
"Miracle Baby" Was Revived by Mother's Hug: Carl W. and Margaret Davis Walter Professor of Pediatric Nursing Susan Ludington speaks to The Today Show about the likely role kangaroo care played two years ago in the life of little Jamie Ogg, who had been born premature and declared dead. Read more.
Quality-of-Life Discussions Are Important for ICU Patients: Professor Barbara Daly and Associate Professor Sara Douglas led a research study that emphasizes the importance of patients having discussions related to quality of life before they become chronically critically ill. Read more.
BSN Students Help Cleveland School Nurses Monitor Children’s Health: As part of a project funded by the Prentiss Foundation to combat child obesity and hypertension, BSN students measured heights and weights and read blood pressures of more than 75 fifth-graders at Harvey Rice School and George Washington Carver School. This aspect of the BSN program's ongoing community service learning requirement is set to reach 3,000 kids in 70 schools throughout Cleveland by mid-April. Read more.

February 2012

FPB Project Manager Meets with U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services: Jeanne Hitch, a project manager at FPB, was among a small group who gathered at a local home with Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Senator Sherrod Brown, and representatives from local health care organizations to hear experiences from area women about how the Affordable Care Act has already helped them. Read more.
FPB Students Work with Cleveland Youth in Music and Heart Program: Instructor Laurine Gajkowski's BSN students collaborated with Miles at Cranwood School teachers and administrators in a hands-on service learning experience to teach kids about heart health, blood pressure, and obesity. Read more.
In Time for American Heart Month, Dr. Shirley Moore Recommends Experimenting with Environmental Changes to Boost Heart Health: As you think about your special Valentine today—and the way he or she makes your heart flutter—it’s a good time to remember that a few changes in diet and exercise can improve heart health for people of all ages, Associate Dean for Research and Professor Shirley M. Moore says. Read more.
FPB Senior Erika Cheung Helps Treat and Prevent STIs in Alaska: As part of her senior year BSN Capstone project, Erika Cheung found herself on the Alaskan tundra spearheading community efforts to combat a major health problem among the area's youth: sexually transmitted infections. Read more.
Social Roles such as Motherhood or AIDS Advocacy Can Help Women Cope with HIV: A small research study conducted by Instructor Allison R. Webel suggests that the different roles played by HIV-positive women in society can influence how they manage their disease. Read more.

January 2012

FPB Study Finds the Love of a Dog or Cat Helps Women Cope with HIV/AIDS [video]: Instructor Allison R. Webel discusses her research, which appears as an article entitled "The Relationship Between Social Roles and Self-Management Behavior in Women Living with HIV/AIDS" in the online journal Women's Health Issues. Read more.
Focusing on Family Helps Mothers of Technology-Dependent Children Function: Assistant Professor Valerie Toly's research on mothers of technology-dependent children finds that successful integration of these children into life's day-to-day functions and events improves the overall cohesion of the family. Read more.

December 2011

Moving the Needle Through Team Science [video]: Watch the new video about Shirley Moore's IMPACT study, which encourages parents and adolescents to change together. Click here.
FPB Alum and WWII Pilot Gives $2 Million to Flight Nursing Program: Dorothy E. Ebersbach '54, who served as one of the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II and then worked for years as a public health nurse, combined her love of flight and her dedication to nursing in a $2 million gift to establish the Dorothy Ebersbach Academic Center for Flight Nursing. Read more.

November 2011

Costa Rican Nursing Student Aims to Build Her Country's Pool of Nurse Scientists: PhD student Ana Laura Solano Lopez is one of four graduates of the University of Costa Rica with special scholarship support to attain a doctoral degree outside her country in order to enhance Costa Rica's nursing research programs. Read more.
Nursing Student Working to Create Mobile Health Care Clinic in Haiti: As a means to improve healthcare access for those affected by last year's damaging earthquake, dual doctorate (DNP/PhD) student and family nurse practitioner Monique Balthazar plans to create a mobile health clinic to reach inhabitants of the remote, mountainous areas of Haiti as well as people in tent cities around Port-au-Prince. Read more.

October 2011

Finding True Student-Athletes at Case Western Reserve Is Easy...Unlike Their Classes: The Plain Dealer features an article about the CWRU football team, which includes BSN nursing student Dale English: "When I tell people that I'm in nursing, they don't say much at first. They're surprised. But then they say, 'Wow, you'll have a job for the rest of your life.' That's true, and I love it." Read more.
Just Say "Ahhh...": [Video] That is what Case Western Reserve University student doctors and nurses were telling patients with sore throats and other health problems Saturday, Oct. 22, during the grand opening of the Student-Run Free Clinic at The Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland. Read more.
Joyce Fitzpatrick Welcomed as New Chair of American Nurses Foundation: Effective October 3, Dr. Fitzpatrick will help lead and broaden the ANF's philanthropic work in nursing and healthcare. Read more.
Making a Healthy Living While You're Working 9 to 5: Assistant Professor Elizabeth R. Click is the guest columnist for The Plain Dealer's NetWellness column, in which she discusses balancing the demands of work and family with our own personal needs. Read more.

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

Calling Nurses to Exercise as Role Models for Their Patients: Elizabeth Ford Brooks Professor of Nursing Joyce Fitzpatrick is an author of a new study in the International Journal of Nursing Practice that examines how nurses' attitudes towards exercise can influence their patients' commitments to a healthy lifestyle. Read more.
FPB's Nurse Faculty Loan Program Receives New Funding for 2011-2012: As a response to the ongoing worldwide nursing shortage that extends to nurse faculty and via the efforts of Dr. Jaclene Zauszniewski, FPB has acquired nearly $1.5 million in new federal funds from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for U.S. students in graduate nursing programs who include in their program of study courses that prepare them to become future nurse educators. Read more.
Associate Professor Marilyn Lotas Heads to Lebanon as Fulbright Scholar: Dr. Lotas has sent many undergraduates abroad for field study. Now she will cross international borders herself as a Fulbright Scholar at the Alice Ramez Chagoury School of Nursing at the Lebanese American University of Beirut (LAU) in Lebanon. Read more.
FPB Study Finds Distance Caregivers for Advanced Cancer Patients Have Special Needs: Assistant Professor Polly Mazanec is the lead investigator on a study funded by the National Institutes of Health that analyzes the increasing role and challenges that distance caregivers--those living 100 miles or more from a sick family member--are demonstrating in the care of advanced cancer patients. Read more.

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.

April 2011

FPB Nursing and School of Medicine Students Team Up to Provide Free Primary Care to the Underserved: Students from the FPB School of Nursing and School of Medicine have been training together to provide primary care at a student-run clinic for the city's underserved. Supervised primarily by family physicians, the interprofessional teams participating in this pilot manage all aspects of patient care, from preliminary intake and assessment of vitals to clinical evaluation and plan of care. Read more.
Taking to the Air, Flight Nurse Urges New Training for Air Care: To meet the growing demand to fly patients from an accident or disaster scene or from one hospital to another, flight nurse and nursing PhD alum Andrew Reimer '09 and Associate Dean for Research Shirley Moore call for new competencies and training for flight nurses in their article for the Journal of Advanced Nursing, “Flight Nursing Expertise: Towards a Middle-Range Theory.” Read more.
Making the Move to Exercise for Overweight and Obese People: Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, FPB's Elizabeth Ford Professor of Nursing, and Assistant Professor Mary Quinn Griffin collaborated with Deborah Walton Smith of Gonzaga University on an exercise study, whose findings are reported in the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners article, "Exercise and exercise intentions among obese and overweight individuals." Read more.
FPB Participates in Interprofessional Team Case Competition: A student team represented Case Western Reserve University in the CLARION Interdisciplinary Case Competition on April 16-17 in Minneapolis. Read more.
FPB Continues Its Transformative Collaboration with Japan's Aichi Medical University College of Nursing: Further solidifying the FPB School of Nursing's close partnership with Japan's Aichi Medical University College of Nursing, a group of undergraduate nursing students from Japan arrived with two faculty members to Cleveland on March 12 to embark on a ten-day training program designed to enhance their first-hand knowledge of American nursing education and healthcare systems. Read more.

March 2011

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.

February 2011

BSN Students from South Korea Find New Inspiration in FPB Training Program: Four BSN students from South Korea's ChoonHae College of Health Sciences, along with Professor of Nursing Kyongrin Lee, visited the FPB School of Nursing for a two-week training program in January and February intended to boost the level of nursing education in their home country. Read more.
CWRU Receives Funding for Post-doctoral Training in Papua New Guinea: Professor Elizabeth Madigan is one of the principal investigators on the new, one-year $228,000 grant from the National Institute of Health's Fogarty International Center and the National Institute of Nursing Research, which will support three post-doctoral trainees in anthropology, epidemiology, and nursing from Case Western Reserve University. Read more.
[Video] Reducing the Number of Falls in Nursing Homes: Assistant Professor Evelyn Duffy speaks to WKYC Channel 3 News about patients' risk of falling in nursing homes, and how many may be preventable. Read more.

January 2011

Second Opinion on Bed Rest: Professor Judith Maloni reports that despite the fact that doctors recommend bed rest for nearly a million pregnant women each year, this might not be the healthiest practice for them and their babies. Read more.
- Read the Chicago Tribune article, "Value of Bed Rest for Pregnant Women Questioned"
Past ANA president Rebecca M. Patton joins FPB as Visiting Instructor: FPB alum and immediate past president of the American Nurses Association Rebecca M. Patton, MSN'98, RN, FAAN is bringing her extensive perioperative nursing experience to FPB by filling the newly-created faculty position initially called the Atkinson Visiting Instructor in Perioperative Nursing. Her new role began on January 4, 2011. Read more.
Barbara Daly and Sara Douglas's ICU Communication Study Reveals Complexities of Family Decision-Making: While a much hailed communication intervention works for families making decisions for chronically-ill loved ones in medical intensive care units, the two FPB nurse faculty researchers found the intervention was less effective for surgical and neurological ICU patients. Read more.

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.

November 2010

FPB Announces Its 14th Endowed Professorship: Emerita professor and former administrator Ruth Anderson, MN '45, MSN '54, PhD has made a commitment to endow a faculty chair at FPB and support the next generation of teaching. The Ruth Anderson Professorship — an unrestricted chair to be appointed at the dean’s discretion — is the school’s 14th endowed chair. Read more.
Dittrick Medical History Center Has Exhibit on Childbirth and Midwifery: Gretchen Mettler, director of FPB's nurse midwifery program, comments on the new exhibit of an obstetric manikin Case Western Reserve University's Dittrick Medical History Center. Read more.
CWRU Receives $12.5 Million Grant to Fight Obesity in Cleveland’s Urban Youth: Associate Dean for Research and SMART Center Director Shirley M. Moore is one of the principal investigators of the Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment Research (COPTR) initiative, funded by the National Institutes of Health as a major new intervention to reduce overweight and obesity rates in children. Read more.
Bed Rest for Pregnant Women May Be Harmful: Although millions of pregnant women in the United States have been put on bed rest or restricted activity to treat or prevent pregnancy complications over the past few decades, a new research article by Judith A. Maloni indicates that bed rest can be detrimental in terms of bone loss, fatigue, boredom, loss of muscle function and muscle atrophy, sleep problems, sore muscles, weight loss by the mother, lower fetal weight, depression both during pregnancy and postpartum, nasal congestion, reflux, indigestion, and back and muscle aches. Read more.

October 2010

Testing Lifestyle Changes to Improve Health for People with HIV Infections: Allison R. Webel, a clinical research scholar and instructor at FPB, has received a one-year grant from Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center for AIDS Research to test ways to promote lifestyle changes in women infected with HIV. Read more.
FPB's BEST Center Launches New Faculty Projects: Joining a group of about 20 university researchers focused on end-of-life issues throughout Case Western Reserve, faculty members Maryjo Prince-Paul, Jacquelyn Slomka, and Jung-Won Lim are set to launch pilot research projects at FPB's Building End-of-life Science through Positive Human Strengths and Traits (BEST) Center to improve the quality of life for those with advanced or terminal illnesses. Each has received $30,000 to launch a new project, and over the next year they will concentrate 75 percent of their time on research. Read more.
BSN Students to Combat Obesity and Hypertension in Cleveland Schools: Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs Marilyn Lotas has secured a grant from the Prentiss Foundation that will enable third-year nursing students to implement blood pressure screenings and obesity-reducing interventions over the next five years at a demonstration school in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Read more.
- Listen to Dr. Lotas discuss the new Prentiss grant on NPR's 90.3 WCPN
Joint Commission Reports Big Improvements in Hospital Care: Katherine Jones discusses new findings from the Joint Commission that more widely available evidence-based practice resources have led to better care in America's hospitals. Read more.

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

A Commitment to Improve the Human Condition: Recently, Medical Mutual of Ohio Kent W. Clapp Chair and Professor of Nursing Faye Gary has been named FPB’s first Associate Dean for Minority Affairs and Health Disparities. She discusses her vision for this new position in the following interview. Read more.
FPB's New Dual Doctorate DNP/PhD Program Welcomes Its First Student: Eric Baum, a DNP student focusing on educational leadership, plans to take on a number of courses and a dissertation project to attain his nursing PhD. His career goal is to teach nursing at the faculty level in an effort to ease the nationwide shortage of nursing educators—and, subsequently, the shortage of practicing nurses. Read more.
- Read the article in Case News
Detecting Depression in Caretakers of Mentally Ill Adults: Dr. Jaclene Zauszniewski has designed the Depressive Cognition Scale (DCS) to help determine the level of stress and depression on adult caretakers caring for a family member afflicted with a serious mental illness such as depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Read more.

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.
- Kalamazoo Gazette
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.
- Science Daily

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.
- Crain's Cleveland Business
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.
- FirstScience News
- Spreading a Healthy Message: think: The Magazine of Case Western Reserve University
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.

May 2010

Hashing Out Healthcare -- Arguments on Different Sides of the Issue Show There's Nothing Black and White about Reform: Think talks to 1998 FPB alum and current American Nurses Association president Rebecca Patton, MSN, RN about the merits of healthcare reform. Read more.
In-home Palliative Care Serves as a Vital Link for Patients Managing Illness: Assistant Professor Maryjo Prince-Paul, PhD ’07, MSN ’96, and alumnus Eric Baum, CERT '06, MSN '09, were featured in the Plain Dealer for their work in palliative care. The article discusses Prince-Paul's research and details a day in the life of Baum. Source: The Plain Dealer. Read more.
FPB's Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Relations Nora Hennessy, MNO has received a sponsorship from the University's Office of the Provost and the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women to attend the 2010 HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute, which prepares and advances women for leadership in higher education. Read more.
FPB School of Nursing and Kent State University awarded $2.7 million grant for heart failure study: Co-investigators Mary Dolansky of FPB and Joel Hughes of Kent State will use the grant to assess how the mental status of a group of 400 patients with heart failure affects the way they manage their complex condition. They hope that the NIH-funded study, called “Heart ABC: Adherence, Behavior and Cognition,” will help identify which types of cognitive impairment are related to specific problems in managing heart failure. Source: The Plain Dealer. Read more.
Robert H. Binstock to Receive Hovorka Prize: The winner of this year's Frank and Dorothy Humel Hovorka Prize is Robert H. Binstock, who is professor of aging, health and society for both the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Medicine and in FPB. Throughout his distinguished career, Binstock has established himself as a leader in his field, with a record of exemplary achievement in research, scholarship and contributions to the university and broader local and national communities. Read more.
Nurse Certification Linked to Job Satisfaction: Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing Joyce Fitzpatrick's study, “Certification, Empowerment, and Intent to Leave Current Position and the Profession Among Critical Care Nurses,” uses a national online survey of more than 6,500 members of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) to examine job satisfaction and empowerment. The study appears in the May issue of American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC). Read about her key findings here.
Two BSN students take top prize at undergraduate research poster session: Amy Catalani and Emily Konen, who showcased their research poster entitled "Are You Positive You Are Negative: HIV Awareness in Parma, Ohio," at Intersections: SOURCE Undergraduate Symposium and Poster Session on Friday, April 16, won First Place. View their poster presentation here.

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.

March 2010

Practicing Teamwork: Nursing and medical students at Case Western Reserve University are learning a new way to assess patients and then talk to each other about it, with the goal of improved patient safety and treatment outcomes. Source: The Plain Dealer. Read more (scroll to end of the Vital Signs column).
FPB Study Finds Poor Exercise Adherence after a Cardiac Event: Dr. Mary Dolansky is the lead investigator of an NIH-funded study that found that one year after 248 individuals completed a 12-week cardiac rehabilitation program following a heart attack, bypass surgery or angioplasty, only 37 percent exercised three times a week to keep their hearts healthy. Read more.
Choosing the Right Baby Bottle: Many moms who start off breastfeeding ponder bottle issues, as they have to return to work or need to spend several hours away from the baby. Breastfeeding expert and associate professor of nursing Dr. Donna Dowling and senior BSN student Laura Tycon wrote about their research on bottle design in a paper published online last month in the journal Nursing for Women's Health. Read more.
- RedOrbit.com
- NewsWise.com
- Medical News Today
- UPI.com
- The Times Colonist (British Columbia, Canada)
Free Online Course about Caring for Older Adults in Critical Care Hospital Units: Medical News Today reports that the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and American Academy of Nursing (AAN) recently launched "Best Practices for Elder Care," a free online continuing education course that focuses on the complex needs of older patients in acute and critical-care hospital units. Past and present AACN members who served on the AAN panel include FPB professor of nursing Shirley Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN. Source: Medical News Today. Read more.
FPB Grad Students Teach Guatemalan Midwives How to Save Lives of New Mothers, Babies: Earlier this March, nurse practitioner and DNP student Kimberly Garcia traveled to Sarstun, a small village in Guatemala accessible only by boat, with a team of nursing students and medical students. They were on a medical mission organized by Texas-based Refuge International, which operates four sites in Guatemala and one in Kenya. Garcia was one of three health-care providers who saw nearly 700 patients at two rural clinics. Source: The Plain Dealer. Read more.
- Read more about FPB's MSN Nurse Midwifery major
Drs. Jaclene Zauszniewski and May L Wykle Receive ANA Honors: Dr. Wykle is the recipient of the Mary Mahoney Award, which honors those who raise the status of African American nurses in professional life. Dr. Zauszniewski has received the Hildegard Peplau Award, awarded to nurses who have made significant contributions to the psychosocial and psychiatric aspects of nursing practice. Read more.
Turning Research into Headline News: Tips from the Reporters: Approximately 75 researchers in the field of nursing from around the region learned tips about how to turn their research into headline news during the SMART Center at FPB's daylong conference, "Research into Policy: Making the Journey," on Friday, March 12. Read more.
Dorothy Ebersbach '54 and Her Fellow WASPs Receive the Congressional Gold Medal: Known as Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP, they were the first women to fly U.S. military planes. About 200 of these female aviators, mostly in their late 80s and early 90s and some in wheelchairs, came to the Capitol to accept the medal, the highest civilian honor bestowed by Congress. Bay News 9 interviewed Ebersbach at her home in Tampa, Florida.
- Read and listen to the story on NPR's All Things Considered
MSN Graduate Makes the Who's Who List: FPB alumna JoAnn C. Green, MSN '01, RN, a critical care nursing consultant and Clinical Education Specialist at Tampa General Hospital, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in nursing consultancy services and clinical education. Read more.
What's in a Color?: Dr. Patricia Higgins and her ongoing research on whether new fluorescent lighting developed by GE can synchronize hospitalized patients’ sleep-wake cycles is featured in an article for Environmental Health Perspectives about the "unique human health effects of blue light." Read more.

February 2010

Four faculty visitors from Wuhan University Schoolof Nursing (Hubei, China) came to FPB during the month of February. During their stay they enhanced their nursing skills by observing FPB faculty members with their students in the classroom, lab, and various clinical sites. Their training program, which was designed specifically for their needs, will allow them to return to Wuhan University and make significant changes to the curriculum. Read more.
Nurses Day at the Statehouse: Marilyn Lotas, Sr. Rita McNulty, Kathleen Montgomery, and Susan Tullai-McGuinnesswere among the FPB faculty who attended the annual Nurses Day at the Statehouse program in Columbus on Wednesday, February 24. They and several FPB students joined their peers from nursing education programs and professional organizations from across Ohio. Maryjo Prince-Paul and Polly Mazanec, as well as other advanced practice nurses, met with legislators to discuss a house bill that aims to enhance the ability of APNs to prescribe Schedule II controlled medications. The Statehouse event also created an awareness of issues such as the nurse faculty shortage, funding for programs to address childhood obesity, and assuring quality home health care.
An Effort to Broaden the Research Universe: Both Crain's Cleveland Business and The Plain Dealer report on the FIND Lab's recent workshop to discuss methods of including people with disabilities in research studies. They also mention the FIND Lab's two-year, $400,000 grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research.
- Crain's Cleveland Business (PDF)
- The Plain Dealer (starts from "Include me")
A New Way to Advance Your Career in Nursing: Holders of the Certificate of Professional Nursing can now apply for the Master of Nursing (MN), which is now awarded to students who complete the pre-licensure phase of the Graduate Entry program. Nurses with an MN can go on to earn an MSN (Master of Science in Nursing), DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice), or a PhD. Download the CPN to MN application packet to learn more.
Scaling Symptoms and Self-Efficacy for HIV: FPB clinical research scholar Allison R. Webel, RN, PhD discusses how she adapted the well-known Chronic Disease Self-Efficacy Scale (a questioning tool used by clinicians) to be effective for people living with HIV/AIDS. Read more.
[Audio] The Stimulus Bill Is One Year Old... and Case Western Reserve University has more than 150 different projects that are being paid for, at least in part, with stimulus money. This includes FPB's six grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), one of which helped to create the new FIND Lab. 90.3 WCPN radio mentions the FIND Lab's "focus...on figuring out how to accommodate people with disabilities so they can participate in research trials." Source: WCPN News. Read more.
[Video] Dance Program Makes a Difference: It was the perfect combination -- video games and dance. The students at Mayfair Elementary in East Cleveland took part in a study led by Peg Heinzer, PhD, PNP-BC, CRNP, last year. The community partnership not only aimed to improve health and wellness, but also to improve the students' academic performance in class. Nine of the chosen students had significant improvements in their physical fitness and classroom behavior. Source: WKYC Channel 3 (Cleveland).
FPB Wins a Gold Medal: FPB received a Gold Medal and placed fifth in the nation in CollegeSurfing.com's Web 2.0 College Olympics. The editors of the online college guidebook developed the contest to highlight "top social media innovators among the nation's colleges and universities." The site commended FPB for its live Twitter feed of the 2009 Flight Nursing Summer Camp disaster drill in August, in which the school tweeted a continuous stream of commentary while students cared for victims throughout the simulated earthquake and gas main explosion. FPB's YouTube channel was also mentioned as a factor in receiving the award.
Raising the Bar for Nursing Education: Dean May Wykle talks to NurseZone.com about the merits of increasing the educational standards for nurses to provide them with better tools to care for the growing needs of elder and acutely ill patients. Read more.
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. Source: Minority Nurse. 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.
Kevin's Blog: Read the authentic musings of a freshman nursing student as he tackles the day-to-day challenges and experiences of being in FPB's BSN program. Go to his blog.
Nurse practitioners hone their investigative skills: Jennifer Andrey never planned on becoming a nurse even though she grew up with a mother who was a nurse. After trying theater and business at the University of Toledo, Andrey took an aptitude test. It turned out that nursing was a good fit. Source: The Plain Dealer. Read more.

January 2010

'Survivor' Margaret Bobonich of Chardon to attend reunion of all former cast members: MSN alum and "Survivor: Guatemala" cast member Margaret Bobonich plans to be part of a 10th anniversary "Survivor" cast reunion. Source: The Plain Dealer. Read more.
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. Source: whitehouse.gov.
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. Source: cleveland.com.
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. Source: The Plain Dealer. 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. Source: nursezone.com. 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
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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. Source: discusssleep.com. 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. Source: Reuters.
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 Observerreports
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.
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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 Conferenceis 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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April 2012

How to Keep Diabetes from Affecting Your Hearing: Addressing NIH figures showing that hearing-loss rates double among people with diabetes, research associate Ann Williams discusses this connection on the website Everydayhealth.com. Read more.

Stopping Workplace Bullying: Lucy Jo Atkinson Professor in Perioperative Nursing Rebecca M. Patton addresses how workplace bullying can adversely affect nursing staff dynamics and patient safety in a new publication by the American Nurses Association. Read more.

A Global Commitment to Health: Visiting undergraduate nursing students from Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan took part in numerous educational and cultural activities at FPB throughout the spring semester, further advancing FPB's international health programs. Read more.

March 2012

Five Questions with Brandon Pach, Ohio Nursing Students Association President: Brandon, a junior in FPB's BSN program, discusses some of his career goals and busy extracurricular activities around the Case Western Reserve University campus. Learn more about him.

"Miracle Baby" Was Revived by Mother's Hug: Carl W. and Margaret Davis Walter Professor of Pediatric Nursing Susan Ludington speaks to The Today Show about the likely role kangaroo care played two years ago in the life of little Jamie Ogg, who had been born premature and declared dead. Read more.

Quality-of-Life Discussions Are Important for ICU Patients: Professor Barbara Daly and Associate Professor Sara Douglas led a research study that emphasizes the importance of patients having discussions related to quality of life before they become chronically critically ill. Read more.

February 2012

FPB Students Work with Cleveland Youth in Music and Heart Program: Instructor Laurine Gajkowski's BSN students collaborated with Miles at Cranwood School teachers and administrators in a hands-on service learning experience to teach kids about heart health, blood pressure, and obesity. Read more.

FPB Senior Erika Cheung Helps Treat and Prevent STIs in Alaska: As part of her senior year BSN Capstone project, Erika Cheung found herself on the Alaskan tundra spearheading community efforts to combat a major health problem among the area's youth: sexually transmitted infections. Read more.

Social Roles such as Motherhood or AIDS Advocacy Can Help Women Cope with HIV: A small research study conducted by Instructor Allison R. Webel suggests that the different roles played by HIV-positive women in society can influence how they manage their disease. Read more.

January 2012

December 2011

Moving the Needle Through Team Science [video]: Watch the new video about Shirley Moore's IMPACT study, which encourages parents and adolescents to change together. Click here.

November 2011

October 2011

Joyce Fitzpatrick Welcomed as New Chair of American Nurses Foundation: Effective October 3, Dr. Fitzpatrick will help lead and broaden the ANF's philanthropic work in nursing and healthcare. Read more.

Making a Healthy Living While You're Working 9 to 5: Assistant Professor Elizabeth R. Click is the guest columnist for The Plain Dealer's NetWellness column, in which she discusses balancing the demands of work and family with our own personal needs. Read more.

September 2011