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Posted 12-20-99
John M. Clochesy has been appointed to a three-year term as the Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing Education at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. An associate professor, he also directs the school's Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program.
Clochesy, a Bolton School alumnus and former faculty member, returned to Case Western Reserve University in August after six years at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, where he served as an associate professor and associate dean. During 1998, he was acting dean for six months during the dean's sabbatical. In addition, he was a senior associate in the university's Center for Biomedical Informatics.
A nationally recognized authority on critical care nursing, Clochesy is the principal author of several books, including the textbook Critical Care Nursing, which received the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Award in 1993 and 1996. His research focus is the care of critically ill patients being weaned from mechanical ventilation
Clochesy is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Critical Care Medicine. His professional memberships also include the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the American Nurses' Association, and Sigma Theta Tau, the international honor society of nursing.
In November, Sigma Theta Tau honored Clochesy as a distinguished writer for 2000-2001 at its biennial convention in San Diego. Earlier awards include the Distinguished Alumnus Achievement Award of the Nursing Alumni Organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Distinguished Service and Outstanding Leadership Award of the Bolton School, and the Most Educating Educator Award of the AACN.
From 1989-93, Clochesy served as an instructor at the Bolton School and as an advanced clinical nurse at University Hospitals of Cleveland. He has also taught at California State University, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of South Carolina, and the University of Arizona. His clinical experience includes staff positions at the VA Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and the UCLA Medical Center, all in Los Angeles.
Clochesy earned a bachelor's degree in nursing and social work at Marian College in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in 1976; a master of science at the University of Wisconsin in 1981; and his Ph.D. in clinical nursing research at CWRU in 1993.
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