Try to Relax: Dr. Judith Maloni's pregnancy bed rest research featured in Australian magazine

Babble Australia asks, "Bed rest is prescribed by 90 percent of obstetricians, but does it do any good?" Dr. Maloni responds:

“The body of evidence shows that bed rest has minimal or no benefit,” she says. “That might be no big deal if bed rest didn’t hurt you, but it does.”

Visit FPB's pregnancy bed rest website for more details.

Carol Savrin, DNP, CPNP, FNP, BC selected as Fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)

Dr. Savrin received the honor on June 20, 2009 at the AANP annual conference. AANP is the first national organization created for nurse practitioners of all specialties, and the Fellows program recognizes "nurse practitioner leaders who have made outstanding contributions to health care through nurse practitioner clinical practice, research, education, or policy."

Research for Complex Problems: Read the 2009 edition of FPB's research magazine

This year's Research at the FPB School of Nursing focuses on issues of multiple morbidities, vulnerable populations, health disparities, and the complexity of care. View the PDF edition now.

Challenges of Raising Technology-Dependent Children

Advance for Nurses features FPB instructor Valerie Toly, MSN, CPNP, RN, who is researching how families cope with children dependent on technology for their breathing, nutrition, and cardiovascular function.

She recalls that during her years as a pediatric home health nurse in the 1980s:

"The mothers of those children faced so many challenges to coordinate and deliver care for the child while providing a home life that was as normal as possible for the rest of the family. I found myself wondering why some families are resilient and others flounder when facing the same situation."

Giving Patients Brighter Days to Help Them Sleep at Night (Plain Dealer: June 9, 2009)

Dr. Patricia Higgins is part of a Case Western Reserve-led collaboration that tests whether new fluorescent lighting developed by GE can synchronize hospitalized patients’ sleep-wake cycles.

• A ‘Light Bulb’ Moment for People with Dementia

FPB is joined with the School of Medicine, the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center (GRECC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center, and GE Consumer & Industrial on this exciting project.

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The most endowed professorships of any nursing school in the country

Double the national average of BSN clinical hours by graduation

FPB alums have served as presidents of all major nursing organizations

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