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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CWRU now #1 fastest-growing research university in AAU
Case Western Reserve is the #1 fastest-growing research university in the Association of American Universities, according to the latest data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on research expenditure growth. The university's research and development expenditures surged by 37.5% between…
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January 29, 2021
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is once again hosting the Cancer Disparities Symposium, March 4-5, 2021. The symposium will take place virtually due to COVID restrictions. However, attendees can expect the same level of high-caliber research and an overall dedication to conquering health…
January 29, 2021
Researchers at Cleveland Clinic's Ob/Gyn & Women's Health Institute and Lerner Research Institute recently published a retrospective study in Gynecologic Oncology which found that women with newly diagnosed stage III or IV epithelial ovarian cancer and received antibiotics following cytoreductive…
January 29, 2021
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to attend an interactive Master of Nursing webinar with the program director and recruitment team Feb. 4, at 1 p.m. This program is for students who have a non-nursing bachelor's degree and are ready for a career in nursing. This…
January 28, 2021
The School of Nursing’s earliest male graduate credits his BSN with launching career success. Russell C. Swansburg got his first nursing job by mail—sight unseen, voice unheard. It was shortly after World War II, and nurses were in high demand in the United…
January 28, 2021
Thirty years ago, D. Todd Smith, PhD, loaded a crash victim into a medical helicopter and helped the flight nurse manage the patient’s airway with an endotracheal tube. It was at that moment—thousands of feet above the ground—that Smith found his footing in flight nursing. Throughout his career,…
January 28, 2021
Double alumna and associate professor Valerie Boebel Toly’s successful career started with a scholarship. Many Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing students know Valerie Boebel Toly, PhD, RN, CPNP, for her impact in the classroom, where the associate professor…
January 28, 2021
In 2019, the World Health Organization Declared 2020 the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”—a Prediction that Proved Prescient Amid the Pandemic Janine Galeski has long helped families say goodbye to their loved ones. As a family nurse practitioner on a palliative care team in a Northeast Ohio…
January 20, 2021
FPB Faculty, Jesse Honsky, DNP, MPH, RN, PHNA-BC and Shannon Wong, CPNP, MSN, BSN, RN, have been volunteering at the Phase 1A vaccination clinics, also called Points of Dispensing (POD). Led by the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and Cleveland Department of Public Health, Honsky and Wong have…
January 15, 2021
Researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute have developed an improved approach to treating actinic keratosis, a pre-cancerous skin condition usually treated with photodynamic therapy that patients often report as painful. Findings from a…
December 21, 2020
As we end December, I, for one, am glad to see 2020 fade into the rear-view mirror. Almost like the Alfred Hitchcock movie (rear window), the whole year looked and felt wrong—unlike anything we have ever experienced. It threw immense challenges at us, pushed many to our limits, and tested us in…