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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.

Recent News

”Kangaroo Care” offers developmental benefits for premature newborns
New research in the Journal of Newborns & Infant Nursing Reviews concludes that so-called “kangaroo care” (KC), the skin-to-skin and chest-to-chest touching between baby and mother, offers developmentally appropriate therapy for hospitalized preterm infants. In the article, “Kangaroo Care as a Neon...
Nursing’s Elizabeth Madigan earns grant for research on quality, safety education
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Independence Foundation Professor Elizabeth Madigan received the Ruth Corcoran and Nancy Langston Nursing Education Research Grant from the National League for Nursing. The grant will support her project, "Development o...
Instructor Rebecca Patton receives award from International Honor Society of Nursing
Rebecca Patton, the Atkinson Visiting Instructor in Perioperative Nursing, was the 2013 recipient of the Dorothy Garrigus Adams Award for Excellence in Fostering Professional Standards. The award, presented by the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, recognizes extraordinary exce...
Having a job helps women with HIV manage their illness, according to new research
Having a job helps women with HIV manage their illnesses, according to researchers from Case Western Reserve University and the University of California at San Francisco. “The routine of a work schedule, plus the job-related money and benefits, provides extra emotional support for these women,” sai...
Nursing school awarded $1.76 million grant for palliative care program
Medical advancements that extend the lives of patients with cancer, heart failure and other serious chronic diseases have created another need: more clinicians skilled in specialized care for people with terminal illnesses. Acknowledging this need, Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bo...
Obesity can be predicted from infancy, CWRU researchers find
Infants as young as 2 months old already exhibit growth patterns that can predict the child’s weight by age five, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and Tennessee State University. “Almost from birth, we quickly saw this growth patte...
CWRU researcher searches for global views of nurses’ end-of-life care for patients
Nurses will use extreme measures to save patients and their parents. But they’d prefer less aggressive life-preserving methods for themselves, according to an international survey on nurses’ end-of-life preferences. Findings from a cross-cultural survey of 1,089 nurses from five countries about the...
War’s sounds, smells and sights are too familiar for CWRU 2013 grad
The sound of a helicopter triggers memories of wounded soldiers arriving at the military field hospital in Iraq for Paula Simpson, who graduates this summer from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. “I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness. So I never said the ...
Professor Atwood Gaines named editor of two medical anthropology book series
Atwood Gaines, professor of anthropology, bioethics, nursing and psychiatry, has been selected to edit two new medical anthropology book series from Springer. The first is a series titled Cultural Studies of Science and Medicine, and the second is titled Millennial Medical Anthropology. The latter ...
Memorial service April 27 for nursing faculty member Margaret Wheatley
A memorial service will be held for Assistant Professor of Nursing Margaret A. Wheatley on Saturday, April 27, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing's first floor lounge. A mental health-psychiatric nurse for more than 30 years, she dedicated her career as a nurse, educator...