• Exploring Mentoring Relationships Among Novice Nurse Faculty: A Grounded Theory 

  Busby, Katie Ruth (2021-07)

  The growing and aging population has created an increased demand for health care, resulting in a need for hundreds of thousands more nurses across the United States. As a result, additional nurse faculty are needed to teach ...
• Leadership Characteristics of Nurse Managers Associated with Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice 

  Noth-Matchett, Amanda Ann (2021-12)

  The implementation of evidence into practice is a complex process. Estimates indicate that it takes seventeen years on average for research to be translated into practice. Delay in implementation of evidence-based practice ...
• Activation in Persons with Opioid Use Disorders in Intenstive Outpatient Treatment 

  Keen, Alyson Yvonne (2021-12)

  Persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) often receive intensive outpatient treatment (IOT) but these programs are associated with low rates of completion and high rates of relapse. Enhancing patient activation - taking an ...
• Understanding of Interprofessional Communication to Impact Patient Safety in the Operating Room: A Grounded Theory Study 

  McNealy, Kimberly Renee (2021-11)

  Intraoperative adverse events (IAEs) due to interprofessional miscommunication continue to occur despite implementation of surgical checklists and focused communication trainings. Much of the previous intraoperative ...
• Evidence-Based Practive Sustainability and Nursing Professional Governance 

  Ferren, Melora Darlene (2021-10)

  Patient care that is not based on evidence-based practice (EBP) could be considered malpractice, and it threatens patient safety, quality, and fiscal performance. EBP implementation is complex, and sustainment of these ...
• Factors Associated with Home Based Self-Collection for Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Testing 

  Biederman, Erika Brooke (2021-09)

  Women who are medically underserved may be less likely to obtain provider-based cervical cancer screening because of structural and intrapersonal barriers. Self-collection for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing, a method ...
• "It's Hard!": Adolescents' School Experience and Self-Management of Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures 

  Tanner, Andrea Lynn (2021-06)

  Adolescents with a type of conversion disorder called psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) experience many school, relationship, and health care struggles as they attempt to manage their mental health condition with ...
• The Mother's Lived Experience of Breastfeeding in the First 4 Weeks Postpartum: A Heideggerian Hermeneutic Phenomenological Analysis 

  Rosales, Stacy Ann (2021-04)

  The benefits of breastfeeding are widely known and documented, yet breastfeeding rates at six months have remained well below desired levels. In order to fully understand the breastfeeding experience in the early postpartum ...
• The Attributes of Nurse Residency Programs Influencing the Newly Licensed Registered Nurse 

  Kiger, Christina Louise (2020-12)

  New nurses report feeling unprepared, incompetent, and highly stressed, contributing to first-year turnover rates of 25% in some healthcare organizations. Turnover, combined with a preparation-practice gap, has alerted ...
• Cognitive Dysfunction in Older Breast Cancer Survivors 

  Crouch, Adele Deborah Lenae (2020-09)

  Up to 75% of the more than 3.5 million breast cancer survivors (BCS) living in the United States report cognitive dysfunction. However, little is known about cognitive dysfunction among older BCS, who may be at greater ...
• Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Readmissions in Older Adults 

  Hodge, Kimberly Sue (2020-08)

  Hospital readmission is of growing importance in the healthcare industry because of associated patient and system costs, impact to the quality of patient care, and hospital Medicare payment penalties. The increasing ...
• Adoption and Implementation of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment 

  Thoele, Kelli Marie (2020-06)

  More than 20 million people in the United States have a substance use disorder, resulting in negative individual and societal outcomes. An evidence-based intervention, Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to ...
• The Health Care Encounters of Pregnant and Postpartum Women With Substance Use Disorders 

  Renbarger, Kalyn Marie (2020-06)

  Pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders (SUDs) are likely to experience adverse health care encounters that contribute to poor health outcomes for them and their infants. The purpose of this dissertation ...
• Comparing Engagement in Advance Care Planning Between Stages of Heart Failure 

  Catalano, Lori A. (2019-08)

  Heart failure is a terminal disease with an unpredictable trajectory. Family members of patients with heart failure are often called upon to make decisions about treatment and end of life care, sometimes with little ...
• Examination of the Informed Consent Process as Experienced by Patients Who Underwent a De Novo Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt, Chemoembolization or Radioembolization Procedure 

  Hughes-Gay, Marsha A. (2019-08)

  The purpose of this study is to examine the informed consent (IC) procedure as it was experienced by patients who had undergone a de novo transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS), chemoembolization (TACE), or ...
• Designing Motivational Interviewing Instruction Employing the First Principles of Instruction 

  Cook, Mary Jane (2019-03)

  Health care reform emphasizes prevention of chronic disease through the reduction of modifiable risk factors as a way to reduce health care costs, morbidity, and mortality. Motivational interviewing (MI) is an effective ...
• Investigating Health Related Quality of Life in People with Schizophrenia 

  Janela, Carlos M. (2019-02)

  Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that significantly lessens health-related quality of life (HRQoL). A better understanding of HRQoL is needed to inform holistic and patient-centered treatments for schizophrenia. ...
• Factors associated with the incidence and severity of neonatal abstinence syndrome in infants born to opioid dependent mothers 

  Scott, Lisa Anne (2018-07-13)

  Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), the constellation of withdrawal symptoms experienced by neonates exposed to opioids prenatally, is an epidemic affecting an estimated 23,580 infants each year with an annual cost of ...
• Perinatal smoking and its related factors 

  Jones, Ashley (2018-07-12)

  The smoking rate of low-income pregnant women is almost 4 times the rate for higher-income women. A better understanding of smoking within the low-income population is needed. The purpose of this dissertation was to study ...
• Observational experiential learning facilitated by debriefing for meaningful learning : exploring student roles in simulation 

  Johnson, Brandon Kyle (2018-07-25)

  Simulation is an educational strategy used in prelicensure nursing education that has been demonstrated to effectively replace selected clinical experiences. Simulation experiences may include the use of differing ...

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