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…
Recent News
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July 10, 2019
Two rising seniors at Case Western Reserve University—William
"Sam" Nutt, a biochemistry and Chinese major, and Christine Smothers,
a nursing student—are 2019 recipients of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship.
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education
Foundation, established by Congr...
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June 25, 2019
Our new medical students arrive in a few short weeks and our graduate students will start at various times throughout the summer. All our students possess the intellectual capability to succeed. What we provide is a challenging curriculum to train their minds. But equally important is what we impa...
June 18, 2019
Congratulations to the FPB alumni selected as inductees for the 2019 Class of American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Fellows.
Aliza Bitton Ben-Zacharia, DNP, ANP-BC
Associate Co-Director of Research and Innovation at Mount Sinai Hospital and Adjunct Professor at New York University Rory Meyers Colleg...
June 12, 2019
AAN Living Legend Ruby L. Wilson, EdD, MSN, RN, FAAN, reflects on how effective leadership drives progress
Ruby Wilson's resume reads like a 60-year history of nurse leadership and innovation. Before she earned her master's degree at Case Western Reserve University in 1959, she had already worked w...
June 12, 2019
By Michelle Koski with Helen Jones-Toms | Forefront Magazine, Spring 2019
Sixty years ago, the BSN Class of 1959 graduated from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and headed out into the world with their newly minted nursing degrees. Over the decades, they have had careers, families and adv...
June 12, 2019
By Caitlin Fertal | Forefront Magazine, Spring 2019
As a trainer for the Stop the Bleed program at Case Western Reserve University, second-year nursing student James Sobieski has taught life-saving skills to hundreds of students with Case Western Reserve University Emergency Medical Service (CWRU E...
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June 11, 2019
How do you get there from here? Nurse leaders share how to set new sights in your professional horizon.
By Elizabeth Lundblad | Forefront Magazine, Spring 2019
Policymakers, entrepreneurs, academicians, and philanthropists joined fellow alumni on campus last fall to kick-off the Marian K. Shaughne...
June 10, 2019
By Jessica Ullian Lacount | Forefront Magazine, Spring 2019
During her April 2012 “Leadership in Organizations and Systems” DNP course, Joyce Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN gave her students an assignment she offers each year: write a letter to yourself, dated one year from today, saying what you’...
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May 24, 2019
Experts look to technology to address third-leading cause of U.S. deaths: medical error
Nurses are poised to take the lead on ensuring patient safety in an American health care system, where they already make up 35% of the workforce, according to Mary Dolansky, co-chair of an international nursing ...
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May 17, 2019
This Sunday, May 19, approximately 2,000 Case Western
Reserve University students will take part in commencement ceremonies, beginning
with the university-wide
convocation at 9:30 a.m. in the Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic
Center and followed by diploma
ceremonies throughout the day.
Be...