Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

2121 Abington Road
Phone 368-2526; Fax 368-3542
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick

• Philosophy
  • Individuals and Groups
  • Learning
  • Health
  • Health Care
• Accreditation
• Instructional Facilities
• Administration
• Faculty
  • Associated Faculty
• Programs of Study
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Doctor of Nursing Degree
• Master of Science in Nursing Degree
• Doctor of Philosophy Degree
• Student Services
• Academic Regulations
• Nursing Courses
  • Nursing (NUND)
  • Nursing (NURS)
  • Nursing Anesthesia (NUAN)
  • Nurse Practitioner (NUNP)
  • M.S.N./M.B.A. Joint Degree Program

The present Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing traces its heritage to the Lakeside Hospital Training School for Nurses which was established in 1898. Largely as the result of a generous endowment from Frances Payne Bolton, the present School of Nursing was established in 1923, on an equal basis with other schools and colleges of the University.

Students who are the future professional practitioners and investigators of the discipline of nursing are educated entirely under the aegis of the university. The faculty of the School of Nursing perceives its responsibilities to include teaching, scholarly inquiry, and professional service.

The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing is an integral component of Case Western Reserve University and the Health Sciences Center. The school assumes responsibility for the preparation of individuals committed to excellence and leadership in professional nursing. The faculty of the school accepts the responsibility for teaching and scholarly inquiry as integral parts of the educational process.

The purpose of the educational institution is to provide an environment that permits individuals to develop their personal and professional capabilities, including a sense of responsibility for continued learning; to learn as efficiently and effectively as possible; to find enjoyment, excitement and challenge in the pursuit of knowledge and its application; and to develop behaviors that enable them to function in a changing, complex society.

PHILOSOPHY

Nursing as an academic discipline is a distinctive branch of human knowledge fundamental to nursing practice, nursing education, and nursing administration, and to the continuous development of the profession. The distinctive perspective of nursing includes a focus on the metaparadigm concepts of persons, environment, and nursing. The specific conceptual focus within the Bolton School is the health-seeking mechanisms and behaviors of human beings. Some of those mechanisms and behaviors are innate; others are learned or developed and may be subject to the influence of nurses' knowledgeable ministrations. The body of nursing knowledge is continuously advanced, structured, and restructured as a consequence of a range of methods including scientific inquiry, philosophic inquiry, historical inquiry, and clinical evaluation.

1. Scientific inquiry within nursing is designed to discover, advance, and clarify knowledge about determinants and correlates of optimal biological, psychological, and social functioning; physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort; and individual and group attainment of health goals in multiple environments and under a variety of circumstances (including illness and injury) attendant to birth, living, development, decline, and death.
2. Philosophic inquiry is undertaken to clarify the values that underlie consumers' and nurses' responsibilities for human health promotion, the ethics of nursing practice, and the nature of the body of knowledge known as nursing.
3. Historical inquiry is undertaken to document significant influences (by events and individuals) on the development of nursing over time as a body of knowledge and as a profession.
4. Clinical evaluation is designed to test and verify the relative efficacy of strategies used in nursing administration, consultation, education, and practice, and the means employed to advance nursing knowledge.

The nurse's professional goal is to appraise accurately and to enhance effectively the health status, health assets, and health potentials of individuals, groups, families, and communities and to promote the initiative and independence of those they serve in the attainment of reasonable health goals, mutually agreed upon by consumers and by nurses as their health care providers.

Nursing practice includes assisting persons in the maintenance of health, detecting deviations from health, assisting persons in the restoration of health, and supporting persons during life. These responsibilities are accomplished through a systematic and deliberative process. Nursing practice includes independent and interdependent functions. Nursing is an integral part of the health care system.

Other beliefs essential to nursing which are shared by the faculty are stated below.

Individuals and Groups

• Individuals have common qualities, but each person is unique and has worth.
• Individuals are in constant interaction with the environment.
• Individuals have a capacity to grow and develop.
• Human behavior is purposeful and involves choices that are directed toward meeting the individual's needs.
• Individuals and groups have rights and responsibilities in relation to the promotion of optimal health.
• Individuals have the responsibility for making decisions about their health and have the potential to act on these decisions.
• Most individuals possess the capability for making appropriate decisions, although there are times when these abilities are diminished or absent.

Learning

• Individuals are capable of changing their behavior through the process of learning.
• The need and ability to learn continues throughout life.
• Learning is affected by interaction between the individual and the environment.
• Learning is enhanced when consideration is given to individual differences in cognitive styles.
• The responsibility for learning resides in the individual learner.
• The learning process is an individual endeavor; stimulation of the process is a joint responsibility of teacher and learner working toward common goals.

Health

• Health is a dynamic, ever-changing state.
• Health is influenced by an individual's heredity, environment, and lifestyle.
• Individuals may manifest simultaneously states of health and illness.
• Individuals differ in the ways they value and define health.
• Individuals have the potential to grow as a result of an experience with illness.

Health Care

• Health care encompasses all activities necessary to promote optimal physiologic, psychologic, and social functioning.
• Health care is rendered by the individual alone or in collaboration with health care providers, including nurses, and extends throughout the life span of the individual.
• Health care is complex and depends on the skills, resources, and cooperative efforts of consumers and health care providers.
• A recognized need exists in society to organize effectively the delivery of health care services.
• A variety of providers, each offering a unique and specific service, may be present in an organized health care system.
• The primary contribution of nursing to the health care system is to assist individuals and groups to attain, maintain, and regain optimal health.
• Health care professionals (including nurses) and consumers collaborate to define health; to identify factors inimical to health; to limit, reduce, or eliminate threats to health; to determine human and material resources necessary to provide health care services; and to evaluate and improve health services.
• Collaboration among health professionals and consumers can lead to the achievement of health care delivery systems that provide care that is available, accessible, feasible, acceptable, of optimal quality, sustained, and cost effective.

ACCREDITATION

INSTRUCTIONAL FACILITIES

Students have opportunities for instruction through the use of modern research facilities, including a computer laboratory, observation rooms, audiovisual recording equipment, and physiological recording equipment. Instructional facilities are abundant and varied. The University Hospitals of Cleveland is an aggregate of specialized hospitals with more than 900 beds that includes Lakeside Hospital and Hanna House (general medical-surgical), Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital, MacDonald Hospital for Women (maternity and gynecology), Hanna Pavilion (psychiatric), and an ambulatory care center. These hospitals are adjacent to the School of Nursing and serve as its major clinical resource. Additional opportunities for observation and patient care are available for students in a variety of health, social, and educational agencies including Akron City Hospital, the American Red Cross, the Benjamin Rose Institute, Margaret Wagner House, the Western Reserve Agency on Long Term Care, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the Cleveland Psychiatric Institute, the Helen S. Brown Senior Citizens Center, the Kenneth W. Clement Center for Family Health Care, MetroHealth Medical Center, the Federation for Catholic Community Services, the Federation for Community Planning, the Judson Park Retirement Community, Lakewood Hospital, Lorain County Community Hospital, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, the Ohio Department of Health and Cuyahoga County District Board of Health, St. Vincent Charity Hospital and Health Center, the Veterans Administration Medical Center, the Visiting Nurse Association of Cleveland, and the Western Reserve Habilitation Center.

The Health Center Library of the Cleveland Health Sciences Library serves all students of the health professions and is an integral part of the Health Sciences Center. On request students can become members of the Cleveland Medical Library Association at no charge to them. This allows them to borrow materials from the Allen Memorial Library of the Cleveland Health Sciences Library, at the corner of Adelbert Road and Euclid Avenue. Students have free access to Allen's materials, except for circulation, whether or not they become Cleveland Medical Library Association members. They also have access to the Case Western Reserve University libraries and the Cleveland Public Library, whose Martin Luther King, Jr., branch serves the University Circle area.

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