Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
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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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November 08, 2021
As the fall semester winds down, it’s officially time to start thinking about spring. Registration for the spring semester begins today (Nov. 8) for undergraduate students; depending on the school, graduate program registration may already have started or may begin in the coming weeks.
Whether you’...
November 04, 2021
Nov. 7-13, 2021, is National Nurse Practitioner Week, which brings recognition to the role and increases awareness of the exemplary care nurse practitioners provide. A double alumna of Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Tina Resser (NUR ‘97, ‘99), was recently ...
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October 29, 2021
October is Health Literacy Month—a good time for faculty and staff at Case Western Reserve to learn more about their health through the university’s Wellness Program.
Each fall, all benefits-eligible faculty and staff are encouraged to complete three activities: the Health Risk Assessment (HRA), a...
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October 28, 2021
On Oct. 21, graduate nursing student Takiyah Smith (NUR ’19), a registered nurse and sexual assault nurse examiner, testified as a proponent of Ohio House Bill 3 (HB 3) which seeks to make strangulation a felony in Ohio.
“A sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) is a registered nurse that is an exper...
October 21, 2021
Keeping a quick and steady beat is imperative when performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Junior nursing student Sampada Arora, 20, has taken first aid/CPR training six times in the last five years working as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) in her home state of New Jersey.
She took h...
October 11, 2021
First-year undergraduate nursing student Valeria Rivera knew she would be studying at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.
After moving to Cleveland from Puerto Rico as a child, Rivera said she had always been aware of the university.
“Since high school, I kn...
October 11, 2021
While working in research for Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) since 2019, Carlos Padilla made the shift to the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing from the CWRU School of Medicine this Spring.
A research assistant, Padilla works with Professor Jaclene Zauszniewski’s team on a dementia ca...
October 10, 2021
Minneapolis, Minnesota, along with neighboring St. Paul, Minnesota, are known the Twin Cities. Despite growing up in Minneapolis, for undergraduate nursing student Isabela Alvarez Harris, it’s Cuenca, Ecuador, not St. Paul, that is her personal twin city.
“There are two places I call home. One of t...
October 08, 2021
To celebrate National Nurse Midwifery Week 2021, the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing asked our Nurse Midwifery community members to share their stories and tell us a little bit about themselves.
This year has been a year of accomplishments for Mary R. Fra...
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October 08, 2021
Joyce Fitzpatrick, the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing and Distinguished University Professor, recently discussed challenges facing the nursing profession in an episode of the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s podcast titled “The future of the clinical workforce.”
Fitzpatrick...