FPB Collaborates with AACN to Expand Access to Doctoral Education

FPB's partnership with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the world’s largest specialty nursing organization, will give AACN's more than 80,000 members eligibility for partial scholarships from FPB to explore becoming clinical leaders or researchers with an intensive FPB health policy course. Read more.

How to Keep Diabetes from Affecting Your Hearing

Addressing NIH figures showing that hearing-loss rates double among people with diabetes, research associate Ann Williams discusses this connection on the website Everydayhealth.com.

“Everything you do to reduce [diabetic] complications will reduce the risk of hearing loss," she says. “You do not want both hearing and vision impaired." Read more.

Stopping Workplace Bullying

Lucy Jo Atkinson Professor in Perioperative Nursing Rebecca M. Patton addresses how workplace bullying can adversely affect nursing staff dynamics and patient safety in a new publication by the American Nurses Association.

“Studies have talked about how the culture of a work environment directly has an effect on patient outcomes and keeping the patient safe,” she says. Read more.

FPB Receives Prestigious Jonas Fellowship to Provide Leadership Development Support for PhD Candidates

Selected PhD students committed to careers in research receive $10,000 grants matched by the FPB School of Nursing; the awards help prepare them to address the needs of future patients. Read more.

A Global Commitment to Health

Visiting undergraduate nursing students from Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan took part in numerous educational and cultural activities at FPB throughout the spring semester, further advancing FPB's international health programs. Read more.

FPB Study Identifies the Point When Negative Thoughts Turn into Depression

A research survey tool called the Depression Cognition Scale (DCS), developed by Kate Hanna Harvey Professor in Community Health Nursing Jaclene Zauszniewski, is being used to determine when negative thinking establishes a pattern for the onset of clinical depression.

“Clinicians need guidelines and measures to know when negative thinking has reached a tipping point and has begun to spiral into clinical depression,” she says. Read more.

Five Questions with Brandon Pach, Ohio Nursing Students Association President

A junior in FPB's BSN program, Brandon is president of the Ohio Nursing Students’ Association, a pre-professional association for nursing students. He discusses some of his career goals and some of his many extracurricular activities that keep him busy around the Case Western Reserve University campus.

"My freshman year, I always joked that I would be able to make a difference for the better," he says. "I wasn’t sure what exactly I wanted to do and they were just words at the time, but I found my calling, and now I can’t find enough time in the day. But I really enjoy what I do." Learn more about Brandon.

High-Flying Nursing Professor Provides Life-Saving Support

Professor Elizabeth Madigan was on a red-eye flight from Bogota, Colombia to New York City when a fellow passenger required emergency assistance. Madigan stabilized him and stayed close until their plane arrived at its gate, where paramedics were waiting.

Madigan insists that she was just doing her job. “Any healthcare provider would do what I did,” she says. Read more.

"Miracle Baby" Was Revived by Mother's Hug

Carl W. and Margaret Davis Walter Professor of Pediatric Nursing Susan Ludington speaks to The Today Show about the likely role kangaroo care played in the life of little Jamie Ogg, who two years ago had been born premature and declared dead.

Kangaroo care "does not resurrect the dead," she says, but she believes that it probably made little Jamie more alert. Read more.