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Students, faculty and staff who are part of the Frances Payne Bolton 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.
The 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.
One of the Bolton School's strategic objectives is to create
opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to partner with
institutions external to the university. Please review the selected
community projects featured here. The contact persons are available
to you for more information.
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Educators Who Make a Difference
FPB's Partnership with KISS FM
If we're going to beat the nursing shortage, we've got to spread the word about nursing!
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The Bolton School is proud to proclaim the great success of our second edition of our Educators Who Make a Difference program, a partnership with KISS FM 96.5 to connect with junior and high school students in the Cleveland area. This program recognizes outstanding area educators while familiarizing students with the Bolton School and Case. Running from October 2005 to February 2006, KISS FM listeners had an  opportunity to nominate a teacher, guidance counselor, principal, or other educator from their school on KISS FM's website. A winner was selected weekly, and both the winner and the nominator received an invitation to a party that was held on February 15, 2006 at Dave & Busters.
The winner's school was notified of the educator's accolade, and both the winner and nominee were announced live on the air. As before, both winner and their student nominees received a Dave & Busters Powercard, and the winners received a plaque to display in their school. Other prizes were raffled at the event for all the guests.
Educators Who Make a Difference is part of the Bolton School's ongoing effort to generate awareness of the nursing profession and of our school by reaching out to prospective students and the teachers and administrators who guide them along their path to higher education. Case's values on ethics, diversity, teamwork, and excellence via goodwill and community outreach are showcased in this program.
Our list of winners is now available. Also, check out Case's official news release. |
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Pizza Party at Raymond Elementary School
Sponsored by the Bolton School, KISS-FM, Dave & Busters, and Pizza Pan Pizza |
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A special pizza party was held in February 2006 for the students, faculty and staff of Raymond Elementary School in Maple Heights. The nearly 400-member student body had nominated its entire faculty as "Educators Who Make a Difference," so in thanks for their efforts, the Bolton School, Dave & Buster's, and KISS-FM selected the school for its own party. The pizza was a gift from the Bolton School and Pizza Pan Pizza of Cleveland--nearly 40 huge sheets in all! |
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The Senior Capstone Project
Contact Person: Marilyn Lotas, PhD, RN |
| 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 Australia, Chile, Denmark, St. Lucia, and the Virgin Islands.
In response to the critical need to prepare nurses to provide culturally competent care to diverse populations, last fall's capstone semester was entitled “Health in the Global Community.” |
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The Community Connection Raffle
All FPB students can donate items to submit their name for a monthly drawing to win scrub tops and bottoms, warm-ups, or stethoscopes. Three winners will be chosen monthly! The items (new school supplies, non-perishable food, and clean winter gloves and scarves) will be donated to the students at Patrick Henry Middle School in Cleveland. This raffle is sponsored by the Office of Student Services. |
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Nurses Now Club
are provided to Cleveland and suburban schools.
Contact Person: Christine
A. Hudak, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor
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| The Nurses Now Club sends FPB faculty and BSN students to speak at local high schools, where they discuss the educational path to become a nurse and describe a "day in the life" of different kinds of specialty nurses. Members tour hospitals, participate in nursing case studies, and try to raise the school and community awareness of the current nursing shortage. Meetings are held once a month at Holy Name High School in Parma. At present, there are about 10 students in the group, from high school sophomores to seniors, all of whom are interested in future careers in nursing.
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Nursing Workforce Diversity - (Health Resources and Services
Administration, Bureau of Health Professions, HP-40387-03,
2001-2004)
Contact Person: Faye Gary,
EdD, RN, FAAN, Professor
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Discover Nursing is a program created to mentor junior and senior high school students in planning for a nursing or health related professional career. It involves Garrett Morgan Middle School and the Health Careers Center magnet school in Cleveland. |
Sunbeam School
Contact Person: Noreen Brady, PhD, APN, LPCC, Director of the Sarah Cole Hirsh Institute for Best Nursing Practice Based on Evidence
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Sunbeam is the Bolton School'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.
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Contact Person: Marilyn Lotas, PhD, RN,
Associate Dean for the Undergraduate Program |
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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. |
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Clinical Learning
Contact Person: Marilyn J. Lotas, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, Associate Dean of Student Services, Director, BSN program
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Clinical learning for BSN, MSN, and DNP students occurs in over 200 Cleveland community agencies and organizations each semester. |
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