Claire M. Andrews, PhD, CNM, FAAN

Arline H. and Curtis F. Garvin Professorship in Nursing Excellence

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email
cma4@case.edu
phone
216.368.5992

 

Program of Research

  • Maternal Posture and Fetal Position/Presentation
  • Frontier Nursing Service: Practice Outcome Analysis

Research Projects

  • Nurse-Midwifery at the Frontier Nursing Service (1925-1987): Historical, Longitudinal, and Practice Outcome Analysis.
  • Maternal Postures Strengthened by Physics Theory to Correct Fetal Malposition/Malpresentation

Training Projects

  • Core Faculty, "Childbearing, Childrearing, Caregiving Research Training," May Wykle, National Institute of Nursing Research, 1999-2005.
  • Founder of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Nurse Midwifery Program and Project Director for Nurse Midwifery and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Training Programs (4 federally funded).
  • Pioneer for CNEP (Community Based Nurse Midwifery Education Program), the 1st Distance Nurse Midwifery Educational Program.
  • Project Director, "Strengthening and Expanding Nursing Services and Starting the 1st BScN in Nurse Midwifery in Uganda," Rockefeller funded.

Education Interests

  • Nurse Midwifery
  • Research
  • Underserved Populations/International Health

Educational Background

  • BSN, Nursing, St. John College, Cleveland, OH
  • MS, Maternal Newborn Nursing (Nurse-Midwifery), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  • PhD, Nursing, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI