Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Whether they're starting clinicals in their first semester as undergrads or helping patients through research and care, the members of Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing work together and across disciplines to drive positive impact in world-class hospital systems and our surrounding communities. Follow along with the latest news from one of the nation’s top nursing schools.
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Nursing’s Susan Painter offers intentional support to combat unintentional overdoses
Since the nation’s opioid crisis began in the 1990s, unintentional overdose deaths have claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Americans annually. And through the years, Susan Painter has seen the heartbreak—and insufficient support for families and healthcare providers grieving these deaths…
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February 08, 2022
In taking over the role of editor-in-chief of Applied Nursing Research (ANR), four-time Case Western Reserve University alumnus Ronald Hickman, PhD, keeps the nursing academic journal at the university where it began 33 years ago.
Hickman (CWR ‘00; NUR ‘02, ‘06; GRS ‘08, nursing) has served as asso...
January 26, 2022
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January 20, 2022
The American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Awards 2021 have been announced. Congratulations to the following Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing alumni for their outstanding work.
Luminaries of the Past: Stories of Fifty Extraordinary Nurses
By Mary Beth Modic (NUR '13) and Joyce J. F...
January 12, 2022
How one alumna works to create lasting change in her community
Mary Louise Tatum (NUR ‘20) is a lifelong learner. In addition to holding two bachelor’s and two master’s degrees, she has used her 26-year career as a behavioral health nurse to learn “what makes people tick.”
“I would have been an a...
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January 10, 2022
With focused curricula and an alumna’s creation of a $2 million endowed fund with MetroHealth, the nursing school homes in on community health
By Mark Oprea
In early 2020, Melissa Kline, DNP, RN, experienced what may have been her greatest career lesson on the power of community health nursing. A...
January 06, 2022
Armed with a $3.4M grant, an alumna, assistant professor and new fellow of the American Academy of Nursing is on a mission to improve Black Americans’ health.
By Emily Mayock
Carolyn Harmon Still, PhD, CNP (GRS ’10, nursing; MGT ’16), was 14 when she began cari...
December 27, 2021
Deborah Lindell, DNP (NUR ’03), the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, follows one particular piece of advice in her life: “When you see a possible opportunity show up, take it. You never know what might happen.” It’s that mantra that led her to depa...
December 20, 2021
Eight hours a night has long been touted as the optimal amount of sleep to feel rested and restored. Now, a Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing researcher is studying if this same credo could help better control Type 1 diabetes in young adults.
“We know that sleep is important for all of us, of ...