News and Announcements
Below are some recent announcements and special events related to FPB's International Health Programs. Please contact Samira Hussney for more information.
April 2012
April 2011
Undergraduate nursing students from the University of Hong Kong visit Cleveland and FPB
March 2011
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.
Taiwanese Nursing Students Visit FPB for Nursing Skills and Educational Training Program: Continuing the FPB School of Nursing'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.
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 faculty member Dr. Kyongri 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.
December 2010
Home for the Holidays is the event where FPB celebrates every country represented by its 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 from 3-5pm in the First Floor Lounge. Here are some photo highlights:
October 2010
Dean May Wykle visited South Korea as a keynote speaker at the 20th Anniversary Conference for Eulji University Nursing School. Accompanied by Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing Joyce Fitzpatrick and Director of International Health Programs Samira Hussney, she met with a number of FPB alums and other nursing professors at a special dinner reception. Click the photos below to enlarge.
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Eulji School of Nursing 20th Anniversary Conference |
Dean Wykle giving her new book, Aging Well, to our alum Gwi-Ryung Son |
FPB dinner reception for our alums and other nursing professors |
Dean Wykle with alums (L to R): Chae-Weon Chung, Rhayun Song, Hae-Jung Lee, Dean Wykle, Gwi-Ryung Son and Jia Lee |
August 2010
Zahide Tuna, a previous international visiting scholar to FPB from Turkey, writes:
As you know I gain many useful experinces from CWRU. When I joined the class in sim lab, I dreamed the same lab for my school. And now my dream comes true. I want to share my happiness with you. We have applied for a European Union project to build up a sim lab. The EU accepted our project. We have to do too much work, but I am so happy that I could use my experiences gained from your faculty. Thank you so much for accepting me as visiting scholar and give me a chance to learn many things.
Zahide adds that the title of her project in Turkey is "Use of Simulation: An Educational Strategy to Develop Clinically Competent Nurses," which will take 24 months to perform.
April 2010
Ten undergraduate nursing students from the University of Hong Kong School of Nursing visited FPB on an educational mission for three weeks in March and April 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 and Samira Hussney, director of International Health Programs at FPB. Read more.
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Visiting Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson at City Hall |
Clinical visit with FPB
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Lunch near campus |
March 2010
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.
Tomoko Sugino, MSN, RN, PHN, Nao Yoshimoto, RN, PHN, and Maki Shirakawa, RN represented the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine at Kagoshima University in southern Japan. Their two-week visit was filled with activity: nursing course observations, tours and student shadowing at FPB’s clinical partners, meetings with FPB faculty, and visits to nursing organizations and schools throughout the Cleveland area. Read more.
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Nao Yoshimoto, Tomoko Sugino, and Maki Shirakawa
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Group at the farewell certificate ceremony
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February 2010
Four faculty visitors from Wuhan University School of 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.
FPB and Wuhan University are in the process of arranging for a BSN student exchange program, which will hopefully be implemented in fall 2010.
January 2010
Representatives from Choonhae College of Health Sciences, FPB's newest South Korean partner institution, pay a visit to FPB. Article excerpt:
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 the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, 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. FPB PhD student Eunsuk Lee is serving as their enthusiastic interpreter and intrepid guide. Read more.
December 2009
FPB Home for the Holidays was held on December 18. Please click here for a photo slideshow.
November 2009
PhD alum Dr. Joshua Muliira writes:
Greetings from Uganda and the department of nursing faculty. I would like to share with you and all my friends at FPB that, based on my DNP from FPB, I have been promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Nursing at Makerere University. That means I am only ten publications away from the Associate Professor rank. Long live FPB! The research and writing skills I developed while at FPB are really paying off.
In addition, PhD alum Dr. Emily Liou has taken the position of Chief of the Clinical Practicum Division of the Nursing Department at Chang Gung Institute of Technology.
Congratulations, Drs. Muliira and Liou!
July 2009
Ten Junior BSN students from Eulji University, South Korea visited FPB for a period of two weeks with their dean, Dr. Heeyoung Oh. During their stay they shadowed our BSN students in the classroom, lab, and clinicals at the hospital. They also visited Hospice of the Western Reserve and learned about the end-of-life facility. Each one of them had the opportunity to accompany one of our nurses on a home care visit.
Their visit was very successful. They were very impressed with the continuity of FPB's nursing program, from classroom to lab assessment to clinicals at the hospital. Certificates were presented to them at the end of the program by Dean May Wykle.
March 2009
We are pleased to announce the arrival of our second group of eight senior students from our student exchange program with the University of Hong Kong. They studied at FPB for four weeks starting March 16, 2009. A special welcome reception, coordinated by Dr. Marilyn Lotas and Samira Hussney, was held for them in FPB's first floor lounge.
Dr. Elizabeth Madigan completed a trip to Japan, where she was the Keynote Speaker at the 1st Kagoshima International Nursing Forum. Her presentation was entitled "The Role of Nurses in Collaboration between the Hospital and the Community."
Ms. Satomi Suzuki, a nursing faculty member from Aichi Medical University College of Nursing in Japan, is visiting FPB for the months of February and March 2009. She is working alongside Christopher Manacci and gathering research and information to establish Japan's first graduate-level acute care/flight nursing program. This marks an official collaboration between FPB and her institution. For more information, click here.
(To see the video, click the "Global" thumbnail on the bottom right of the "Speed of Ideas" page and then "watch now.")
February 2009
Dr. Heeyoung Oh, Dean of the school of nursing at Eulji University, South Korea visited FPB on February 23rd and met with Dean Wykle and Dr. Underwood to discuss the curriculum, academic programs, and future collaboration with our school. A memo of understanding (MOU) was drafted and is now in the process of getting signed by both universities. Here is a picture of Dr. Oh standing next to the welcome sign.
Six faculty members from Wuhan University, China came to visit FPB for two weeks in February 2009 to take part in a Faculty Training Program.
Here they are posing for a photograph with Dean May Wykle. Click photos to enlarge.
