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Elliane Irani found herself with lots of questions after she started working as a nurse in an intensive care unit. How do patients recover following an intensive care event? What does it mean for them when they return home? How does the environment of an ICU affect a person’s ability to get enough...

In this Crain's Cleveland Business article, assistant professors Eric Barbato and Stephanie Griggs weighed in on how poor sleep habits are linked to hypertension, impaired immune functioning and cardiovascular disease. Despite sleep’s significance to health, it is still a relatively new area of rese...

Each month, the Center for Research and Scholarship at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing sends an internal research newsletter to faculty, staff, students and researchers. A recap is posted here. Distinguished Dissertation Award Maura McCall, postdoctoral fellow, was honored by the Counci...

For patients with cancer and their caregivers, high quality end-of-life care is incredibly important, as one expert explained. “There has been a fair amount of research done that has shown that when patients do not receive what is considered quality end of life care ... not only are there poor pati...

Anne Gaglioti, Colin Crowe, Carolyn Still and Adam Perzynski from Case Western Reserve University’s medical and nursing schools published an article in Capsules, a publication from the Ohio Cardiovascular and Diabetes Health Collaborative (Cardi-OH). The article, “Tips to Improve Family Support for ...

As interest grows around artificial intelligence, experts believe emerging technologies could lead to big changes in health care. Development in AI could provide assistive tools to busy caregivers and all for medicine to be tailored to a patient's specific needs. Conversations around the potential ...

Each month, the Center for Research and Scholarship at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing sends an internal research newsletter to faculty, staff, students and researchers. A recap is posted here. A Message from the Associate Dean for Research November is National Gratitude Month, and our ...

Ronald Hickman, the Ruth M. Anderson Endowed Professor and associate dean for research at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, was recently elected a board member of the American Academy of Nursing. Hickman is regarded for his work leveraging technology in decisions related to end-of-life care a...

Intervention could play a critical role in improving the physical and emotional well-being of parents with technology-dependent children, according to the preliminary analysis of a recent study by a Case Western researcher. Dr. Valerie Boebel Toly, an associate professor at the Frances Payne Bolton...

Bootan Ahmed’s world changed forever on Feb. 1, 2004. It was the day his father was killed in a suicide bombing attack in Hawler, Iraq. It was also the day the now second-year PhD student at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing envisioned a future as a nurse. “I was looking to find my dad at th...