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Sara L. Douglas, PhD, RN, the Gertrude Perkins Oliva Professor in Oncology Nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, has been awarded a $3.3 million Research Project Grant (RO1) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) for her research aimed at improv...

Nursing has always held health equity as a critical value in many ways. Nurses strive to deliver the best care to all patients, independent of socioeconomic status, gender, race, or other factors. Health equity arguably gets even more attention than in the past. And that attention also occurs in nu...

The technology healthcare will use in 50 years is impossible to predict, but nursing leaders agree that the one thing that will not change is the importance of caring individuals at the bedside. Many leaders predict nurses will mostly leave the hospital setting to do more community work and hospita...

Professorship leverages power of nurses to lead healthcare As healthcare systems across the country feel the mounting pressures of an aging and increasingly diverse patient population, staff burnout, a workforce shortage and rising costs – a partnership between The MetroHealth System and Case Weste...

Case Western Reserve awarded $1.4 million for Ohio’s Great Minds Fellowship initiative Eligible students may receive up to $10,000 for pursuing careers in behavioral health As part of a statewide effort to encourage more students to pursue behavioral health-related professions, the Ohio Department...

While there’s no cure for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), there are measures people can take to avoid developing the disease. One involves taking drugs called preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in 2012. A newly released statement from the...

Skin-to-skin contact—also called kangaroo care—has many benefits for babies. Learn how to practice it here. When you have a new baby, you'll undoubtedly spend a lot of time holding them. More likely than not, your health care team will advise you to practice skin-to-skin contact, also known as kang...

The Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship’s faculty fellowship program launched during the 2022–23 academic year, and continues to expand to meet the growing needs of Case Western Reserve University faculty members. Designed specifically for faculty members interested in exploring entrepreneurship a...

Melissa Kline, DNP, RN, did not intend to go into leadership when she started as a staff nurse at Cleveland-based MetroHealth. But over the last 20 years, she realized leadership is where she belonged. "I love taking care of our patients and I really liked learning about how the unit functions," sh...

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. Goldbag Research Seminar Series The School of Nursing announced the Fall 2023 lineup for the ...