FPB Nursing Magazine's 2009 Reunion Issue

Featuring fond memories from Alumni Celebration 2009, the BSN Stimulus Package, Research at FPB, FPB Feats, Class Notes, and much more!

Study Looks at Link Between Oral Health and Pneumonia in Patients on Ventilators

Think, the Magazine of Case Western Reserve University, reports on the NIH-funded research of doctoral student Gina Luciano. An ICU surgical nurse practitioner, Luciano has witnessed firsthand the impact of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) on her patients. She will investigate whether there is a link between poor oral health and the development of VAP. Read more.

Virtual Coaching to Help Patients Talk to Doctors

John Clochesy, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCCM, Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing Education, is leading an interdisciplinary research team for the two-year, $1.3 million National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities study, "Electronic Self-Management Resource Training to Reduce Health Disparities" (e-SMART-HD).  The goal of this stimulus grant-funded project is to improve communications between minority patients and their doctors. Read more.

Finding Ways for Disabled People to Participate in Research is Goal of New Study

Shirley M. Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Dean for Research and director of the SMART Center, is the lead investigator of a National Institute for Nursing Research-funded project, "Full Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities (FIND) in Self-Management Research." She was inspired by the work of her co- investigator, Ann Williams, PhD, RN, to search for ways to involve more disabled persons in the subject side of research activities. Read more.

Nursing students staff campus H1N1 nasal spray clinics; dispel myths about the virus and the vaccine

No strangers to community service, FPB students are administering the H1H1 influenza nasal spray vaccine to Case Western Reserve students, staff, and faculty at a series of clinics held all over campus. The nursing students are learning first-hand that their role is to educate as well as vaccinate. Read more.

Dean Wykle receives university’s distinguished alumni award

A triple alumna of Case Western Reserve and an advocate and leader within the global healthcare community, FPB Dean May L. Wykle was presented with the university’s 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award during the Grand Classes Luncheon and Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University during the recent Alumni Weekend and Homecoming. Read more.

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