Register now for the Inaugural Fuld Evidence-based Practice National Summit

The Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice (EBP) in Nursing and Healthcare's first national summit, "Transforming Healthcare through EBP" will be held at the Hilton Columbus at Easton, October 18-20. Space is limited for this landmark event, so register soon! View Dean Melnyk's video about the event here.

Wine Tasting a smashing success!

Nearly 190 alumni and friends gathered for the 11th annual Wine Tasting, hosted by the College of Nursing Alumni Society. Guests enjoyed an evening of great wine and entertainment, and raised more than $12,000 to support the college's Scholarship Fund. View photos from the festivities on Flickr. Many thanks to Colleen Pelasky, who did a fantastic job organizing and coordinating this event!

Total Health & Wellness Center receives federal designation

The Total Health & Wellness Center (THW), established in late 2012 as Ohio State's first health practice to be run entirely by nurses, has been awarded Federal Qualified Health Center Look-Alike status by the Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Primary Health Care. Under this designation, THW is recognized as an organization that provides high-quality preventive and primary health care to patients regardless of their ability to pay.

Mion inducted into STTI Researcher Hall of Fame

We are proud to announce that Lorraine C. Mion, PhD, RN, FAAN, research professor at The Ohio State University College of Nursing, was inducted into the Researcher Hall of Fame of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), at STTI's 28th International Nursing Research Congress in Dublin, Ireland on Saturday, 29 July 2017.

Jeff Johnston

Ohio State degrees: BSN (1987)

Recent award: 2017 Port Clinton High School Alumni Hall of Fame

Current role: Founder / CEO of A-List Enterprises, developer of iPhone / iPad Apps A-List+ and A-ListPro. A-List+ combines weather, contacts, calendar, task list, user names & passwords, notes, projects and more in one app. A-ListPro is a business management app for personal trainers and other small appointment-based service businesses.

Professionally, I am proud of co-founding and running CPR+ Complete Patient Records, the most widely used business management software in the home infusion therapy industry. My business partner Stuart Crane and I met in 1991 and started building CPR+ while we both had full-time jobs. I was working full time as a home health RN for a local home infusion therapy company. I realized that the industry needed an easy-to-use business management software program to automate all of the time-consuming clinical documentation, inventory and billing tasks that were being done manually with pen and paper at the time. We sold our first copy of CPR+ in 1993 for $5,000, and it quickly became the #1 program on the market. We experienced 20 consecutive years of double digit growth before we sold the business in 2013, with over 800 active home care customers, tens of thousands of end users and 80 full time employees. We continue to own our office building in Westerville, Ohio, renting it to the company who acquired us. Four years later, CPR+ remains the market leading business management solution for Home Infusion Therapy and Specialty Pharmacy businesses.

Interesting fact: I met Stuart over our backyard fence in Clintonville. We started our business with $400 in cash.