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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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Master of Nursing information session
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…
A Series of Firsts
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…
Taking Flight
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,…
Paying It Forward
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…
Year of the Nurse in the Era of COVID-19
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…
FPB Faculty and Alumni Volunteer for COVID-19 Phase 1A Vaccination Initiative
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…
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Study Reveals How Improved Type of Light Therapy Kills Pre-Cancerous Cells
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…
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Thank You: A Message from Dr. Stan Gerson
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…
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Nursing’s Jaclene Zauszniewski awarded $2.6M grant to study stress management in caregivers of people with dementia
Jaclene Zauszniewski Jaclene Zauszniewski, the Kate Hanna Harvey Professor in Community Health Nursing and one of Case Western Reserve University’s 2020 Faculty Distinguished Research Award winners, and her research team received $2.6 million to study stress management in caregivers of people with…
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Newly diagnosed cancer patients, African Americans more at risk for COVID-19 infection
Cancer patients, especially newly diagnosed and African American patients, are significantly at risk for COVID-19 infection, hospitalization and mortality, according to a new study published in JAMA Oncology by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Case…