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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 ϳԹ’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.

Recent News

ϳԹ finds more men arriving for class to become nurses
It appears that men have figured out what women have known for years: nursing is a great profession. Just ask the current class in ϳԹ's master entry-nursing program. While the number of men in nursing has increased in recent years, ϳԹ has se...
University installs nation’s first critical-care transport helicopter simulator for flight nurse training
Acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP) students, specializing in flight nursing at ϳԹ, 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...
Nursing PhD student wins local entrepreneurial pitch contest
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 ...
Nursing school awarded grant to study link between brain and health behavior change
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 ϳԹ to study how brain activity motivates the chronically il...
New book, ”Nurses Making Policy,” urges nursing profession to speak up
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...
Lunchtime presentation to address oral health for aging adults
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....
Nursing school receives Innovations in Professional Nursing Education award
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...
Nursing school receives nation’s largest Nurse Faculty Loan Program grant
For many students at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at ϳԹ, 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) ...
Nursing school receives grant to study how cancer patients make end-of-life decisions
The choice to die at home surrounded by loved ones comes too late for some cancer patients. Why that happens and how to change the process so more patients may die as they wish is the focus of new research individuals at ϳԹ's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will p...
Nursing school to give away cupcakes tomorrow in recognition of National Midwifery Week
For the third straight year, the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at ϳԹ is celebrating National Midwifery Week by giving away 1,000 mini cupcakes—one for every 10 babies born annually into the hands of certified nurse midwives in Ohio. The event starts at Thursday...