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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August 06, 2013
ӰƵ’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing received a $2.5 million federal grant to provide loans that encourage students pursuing advanced degrees to become nurse educators.
Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) introduced the Nurse Faculty Loan Program (...
July 25, 2013
Researchers at ӰƵ’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will assess the effectiveness of palliative care home health visits in treating people with HIV and other chronic illnesses in a new four-year, $1.7 million study funded by the National Institute of Nursing Resea...
July 21, 2013
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...
July 19, 2013
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...
July 03, 2013
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...
June 27, 2013
Having a job helps women with HIV manage their illnesses, according to researchers from ӰƵ 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...
June 25, 2013
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, ӰƵ’s Frances Payne Bo...
June 13, 2013
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 ӰƵ’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and Tennessee State University.
“Almost from birth, we quickly saw this growth patte...
May 29, 2013
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...
May 14, 2013
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 ӰƵ.
“I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness. So I never said the ...