by Jeff Bendix

CWRU's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will celebrate National Nurses Week this year by hearing an address from Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell.

Campbell, as well as others from the Bolton School, will speak at noon May 8 in room NOA31, the main lecture hall on the ground floor of the school. The event is sponsored by the Ph.D. Nursing Student Association.

"We know that Mayor Campbell is very committed to issues important to nursing and health care, and we felt having her as a speaker would be an appropriate way to mark a week that celebrates nursing," said Jacquelyn Russek, president of the association.

At the conclusion of the mayor's remarks, the Ph.D. Nursing Student Association and the Graduate Student Nurses Association will present her with a $1,000 check for the Mayor Jane Campbell GAP Scholarship program for a student pursuing a career in nursing.

This program, managed by the Cleveland Scholarship Programs, makes awards of up to $5,000 to students graduating from Cleveland public schools to help pay for postsecondary education.

Others speaking at the event will be May Wykle, dean of the Bolton School and Florence Cellar Professor of Nursing; Jaclene Zauszniewski, associate professor and director of the doctorate nursing program; and Bette Idemoto, a council member of the Ph.D. Nursing Student Association.

Celebrated annually, National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6, which is RN recognition day, and ends on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale. The week highlights the diverse ways in which registered nurses, the largest health care profession, work to improve health care.

 

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