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 窪蹋勛圖厙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 nations top nursing schools.
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Nursings Susan Painter offers intentional support to combat unintentional overdoses
Since the nations 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 heartbreakand insufficient support for families and healthcare providers grieving these deaths
Recent News
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September 11, 2017
The university community is invited to the Advanced Management Issues in HIV Care conference Sept. 1415.
The conference will offer an advanced focus on the management of patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
The conference will be of interest to health care professionals ...
September 01, 2017
Story by Jessica Ullian
Photographs by Gary Yasaki
Nursing has long occupied a unique position in health care around the globe, combining expertise in clinical research with commitment to patient well-being. Now, with unprecedented technology and data collection tools, the health care industry is t...
September 01, 2017
Neurocritical Care Boot Camp Prepares Future Advanced Care Practitioners
Story by Helen Jones-Toms
Photographs by Roger Mastroianni
Amid the antiseptic stillness of the cadaver lab is a quiet hum of conversation. Students and instructors huddle around two tables...
September 01, 2017
Alumni Spotlight: Elizabeth Madigan (GRS '92)
By Michelle Koski
This fall, Elizabeth Madigan, PhD, RN, FAAN, heads to Indianapolis for her new role as chief executive officer of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). Madigan, who became the Independence Foundation Prof...
September 01, 2017
In Pursuit of Nursing Research
By Shelly Koski
The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing is known for educating the most innovative nurse scientists in the nation. Forefront asked to four of the schools post-doctoral fellows what inspired them to become a nurse scientist and what advice they wou...
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August 30, 2017
Shirley Moore cant recall a time in her life, even as a girl on the familys Ashtabula, Ohio, dairy farm, when she didnt want to be a nurse, to care for others.
But Moore, the Edward J. and Louise Mellen Professor of Nursing and associate dean for research at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nu...
August 16, 2017
Convocation is coming up in a week, signaling the formal start of the 窪蹋勛圖厙 academic year, but things are already gathering momentum. Our new medical students have begun Block 1 and our physician assistant students have had their anatomy final exam. Our bioethics masters program is headed for record ...
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August 04, 2017
A program that partially forgives student loans for doctoral students who go on to teach nursing is expanding at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at 窪蹋勛圖厙, thanks to a new $1.5 million federal grant.
The grant from the Health Resources and Service Administration (...
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July 07, 2017
Julia Blanchette (CWR 14), a PhD student at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, still remembers how distressed she was when she was first diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 7.
She also has never forgotten how much better she felt about living with diabetes when she attended a summer cam...
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July 03, 2017
I saw in the New York Times that Larry Weed, aged 93, passed away on June 3rd. In case you dont recognize the name, he was the father of the problem-oriented medical record (POMR). I am old enough to recall POMR as novel when I was in medical school, and like most innovations, it had supporters and...