Students, faculty, and staff at the FPB School of Nursing incorporate community outreach into their educational curriculum on a regular basis as part of the university's overall mission of valuing social responsibility.
Outreach ranges from sharing information about nursing careers with youths to training caregivers of elderly, from assessing health policy and finance among Cleveland communities to preparing to provide disaster relief across the country.
Please review the selected community projects featured here. The contact persons are available to you for more information.
Clinical LearningContact: Dr. Marilyn Lotas
FPB students graduate with the advantage of experience. BSN, Graduate Entry, MSN, and DNP students engage in clinical learning at more than 200 Cleveland-area community agencies and organizations each semester.
These premier healthcare organizations include:
Discover NursingContact Dr. Faye Gary
The Discover Nursing program's mission is to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, helping them acquire the knowledge and skills needed to improve health and reduce suffering in the global community.
Discover Nursing students acquire advanced degrees in nursing, business, public health, law or some other related field during the early stages of their careers. These students come from Garrett Morgan Middle School and the Health Careers Center magnet school in Cleveland.
BSN Senior Capstone ProjectContact Dr. Marilyn Lotas
The Senior Capstone Project is a practicum that provides senior BSN students with the opportunity to analyze the concepts of health and health care, health policy and finance, culture, and ethics.
The preceptored, 10-week community-based immersion experience is held during the fall semester in local, national, or international settings. Students apply epidemiological techniques, the skills of negotiation, partnership building, community assessment, and nursing science in the identification and analysis of a health problem leading to the development of an intervention. Recent projects have taken students to local Cleveland schools as well as to international sites in Australia, Chile, Denmark, St. Lucia, and the Virgin Islands.
Community Engagement through Service LearningContact: Dr. Marilyn Lotas
For service learning, BSN, MSN, and DNP students are matched with a community agency to conduct an agency-identified service project.
Students engaged in service learning provide community service in response to community identified concerns and learn about the context in which service is provided, the connection between their service and the academic course work, and their roles as citizens and health care professionals.
International Health ProgramsContact: Samira Hussney
FPB has a strong legacy and many current activities in international health. We host one of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centers in Nursing in the United States.
We welcome international students and scholars who wish to come study with our faculty and visit premier clinical sites. In addition, there are a number of opportunities for our students to study abroad in international locations.
Sunbeam is FPB's partner school in the Cleveland municipal school district. Faculty and staff are volunteer tutors at the school. BSN students provide nursing care to Sunbeam students who have complex health problems.
Children at Sunbeam School continue to be in need of tutors in reading and mathematics. Several of our faculty who have participated in the past can attest to the gratifying nature of both the relationships established and the experience itself. Sunbeam School is located close to campus, and the children and staff are most grateful for our participation.
