• 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 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 D. (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 ...

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