• 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 Manuel (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 ...
• The unfolding depressive symptoms, disease self-management, and treatment utilization for Latina adolescents 

  Stafford, Allison McCord (2018-06-18)

  Latina adolescents are more likely to suffer from depressive symptoms and less likely to receive mental health services for depression than their White peers, and this mental health disparity is poorly understood. The ...
• The multidimensional kidney transplant self-management scale : development and psychometric testing 

  Chung, Shu-Yu (2018-04-03)

  Poor long-term kidney transplant outcomes are a significant problem in the U.S. Interventions must focus on preserving allograft function by managing modifiable risk factors. An instrument capable of identifying problems ...
• The experience of post-craniotomy pain among persons with brain tumors 

  Foust, Rebecca Elizabeth (2018-04-16)

  Post-craniotomy brain tumor patients often experience pain in the post-surgical period which can negatively affect recovery and surgical outcomes. Research with this population has focused on pharmacological treatments ...
• Evaluating local skin heating as an early detection method for small-fiber neuropathy in women with breast cancer receiving paclitaxel (Taxol®) 

  Zanville, Noah Robert (2018-04-18)

  The purpose of this prospective, observational study was to determine if a technique used to detect early signs of small-fiber neuropathy (local skin heating) could detect signs of small-fiber taxane-induced peripheral ...
• Qualitative analysis of older adults' experiences with sepsis 

  Hancock, Rebecca Diane (2018-04-04)

  Atypical symptoms, multiple co-morbidities and a lack of public awareness make it difficult for older adults to know when to seek help for sepsis. Diagnosis delays contribute to older adults’ higher sepsis mortality rates. ...
• Becoming an RN : a hermeneutic phenomenology study of the socialization of graduate RNs 

  Hostutler, Jennifer J. (2017-08-30)

  Nationwide, there has been a trend for acute care facilities to hire a greater percentage of new graduate registered nurses (GRNs). It has been estimated that in acute care 42% of newly hired Registered Nurses (RNs) ...
• Participant experiences in phase I pediatric oncology clinical trials 

  Crane, Stacey M. (2017-08-31)

  Phase I clinical trials (P1Ts) are the first step in testing new medical therapies in humans, and are essential for developing new and innovative therapies for children with cancer. P1Ts are ethically controversial as they ...
• Social capital and human capital of nurse managers and registered nurses 

  Gilbert, Jason Howard (2017-07-13)

  Nurse managers and the teams of registered nurses they lead play a major role in the provision of healthcare outcomes nationally. Nursing leadership models have evolved with contemporary society and have shifted from ...
• The experience and communication of symptoms in advanced pancreatic cancer patients and their families 

  Tang, Chia-Chun (2017-06-13)

  Symptom management is the main focus of care for patients living with advanced pancreatic cancer (APC). However, evidence shows that symptom management is far from satisfactory for this population. Poorly managed ...
• Hospital-associated functional status decline in pulmonary patients 

  Shay, Amy Cornett (2017-06-26)

  Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a significant worldwide cause of chronic illness and mortality and one of the most common admitting diagnoses in the United States. Persons with COPD are at increased ...
• Taxanie-induced musculoskeletal pain in women with ovarian cancer 

  Davis, Lorie Lynn (2017-04-18)

  Taxane-induced musculoskeletal pain (TIMP) is musculoskeletal pain that includes myalgia (i.e., diffuse muscle pain, usually accompanied by malaise) and/or arthralgia (i.e., joint pain) that occurs following treatment ...
• The decision making process in women diagnosed with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer experiencing side effects related to oral endocrine therapy 

  Milata, Jennifer Lynn (2017-02-06)

  Oral endocrine therapy (OET) is standard therapy for millions of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer survivors (ER+BCS). OET reduces recurrence, mortality, and metastasis. ER+BCS often do not take their OET as ...
• Master's degree and post-master's certificate preparation for the academic nurse educator role : the use of the National League for Nursing Core Competencies of nurse educators as a curriculum guide 

  Fitzgerald, Ann (2016-11-08)

  This study described the education courses in Master of Science in Nursing Education (MSN Ed) degree and post-master’s certificate (PMC) in nursing education programs and determined which of the eight NLN Core Competencies, ...

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