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 ӰƵ’s 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…
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March 09, 2015
Susan Mazanec
After studying cancer survivors and their family caregivers, researchers at ӰƵ concluded that the period between the final cancer treatment and first post-treatment checkup may be an ideal time for the entire household to jumpstart a healthy lifestyle.
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January 06, 2015
Fatigue and pain, along with other symptoms, prevent many people with multiple sclerosis (MS) from exercising. But a new how-to guide for a home-based exercise program, tested by researchers at ӰƵ’s nursing school and the Lerner Research Institute at Cleveland Clinic, of...
January 05, 2015
It appears that men have figured out what women have known for years: nursing is a great profession. Just ask the current class in ӰƵ's master entry-nursing program.
While the number of men in nursing has increased in recent years, ӰƵ has se...
December 22, 2014
Acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP) students, specializing in flight nursing at ӰƵ, will soon be training in the nation’s first state-of-the-art simulator built in an actual helicopter. The simulator creates the sense of treating critically injured patients from takeoff...
December 12, 2014
Shanina Knighton, a PhD student in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, placed first in Girl Power Pitch Night—an event geared toward college-aged, female entrepreneurs—on Wednesday, Nov. 19.
Knighton’s project is a product aimed to improve hand hygiene for patients. The event was hosted by ...
December 01, 2014
A five-year, $2.35 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research will allow researchers from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine at ӰƵ to study how brain activity motivates the chronically il...
November 26, 2014
The new book Nurses Making Policy: From Bedside to Boardroom (Springer Publishing, 2014) implores nurses to speak up and be heard, from the hospital corridors to the floors of Congress.
Be the voice for change, advised Rebecca M. Patton, the past two-term president of the American Nurses Associatio...
November 12, 2014
The campus community is invited to attend a University Center on Aging and Health brown bag lunch presentation on systemic oral health care in the older adult population.
The lunch will take place Friday, Nov. 14, from noon to 1 p.m. on the first floor of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing....
October 31, 2014
The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing received the Innovations in Professional Nursing Education award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).
The nursing school won the award in the category of Academic Health Centers, and it was given in recognition of a number of the nu...
October 28, 2014
For many students at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at ӰƵ, finding a way to pay for their advanced nursing degrees just got easier.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded the nursing school a $3.16 million Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) ...