Welcome Post-Master's DNP Students

The faculty and staff of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing welcome you to the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, Case, and Cleveland. We will be posting all information that will assist in most aspects of your student life on this site.

One of the first things you should do is e-mail your advisor to introduce yourself. Tell your advisor about yourself and your research interests and see if you can make an appointment for when you are at Case for an intensive class. We welcome your questions and ask that you contact one of our recruitment and retention specialists for more information.

Important Links

About the Campus

• Visiting Campus

• Map of Campus

• Campus Tours

  • Health Sciences Tour

  • Case Campus Tour

  • Case Quad Tour

  • Historical Buildings Tour

  • Mather Quad Tour

• University Circle (Campus neighborhood)

• Little Italy (Nearby neighborhood)

• Positively Cleveland (Visitors bureau)

• Off-Campus Living Info for Graduate Students

• About Frances Payne Bolton

• History of Case Western Reserve University (video)

Important Items

• Pick Up your Case ID card: The card is needed to access certain labs and rooms within the school and to enter the building on weekends.

• Activate Your Case Network ID: You will need this to access the registrar, Blackboard, libraries, computer systems, as well as your student e-mail account.

• Download VPN to your home computer: This is a virtual network that allows you to access the Case network from off-campus.

Classroom and Coursework Tips

• Suggested Reading for all DNP Students: The Doctor of Nursing Practice by Lisa Astalos Chism

• Cleveland Health Sciences Library

  • Conducting basic searches (PowerPoint presentation)

  • Conducting advanced searches (PowerPoint presentation)

• Databases: Here you can access important databases for research and scholarship purposes, such as 
  CINHAL, Pubmed, ERIC, Psych Info, Soc, Cochrane, and dissertation abstracts.

• E-Journals: Access hundreds of online /electronic journals.

• Creating PowerPoint Presentations: Here are some useful tutorials

  • http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/techcomm8e/tutorials/presentationslides/index.html

  • http://www.students.ucs.ed.ac.uk/helpdesk/student/system/show.cfm?documentID=2239

• Learning, re-learning, and using the sixth edition of the APA style manual

  • http://apastyle.org/learn/index.aspx

  • http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

• Message Board for Graduate Students (registration required to post messages)