Dissertations from 2017
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Readmission Factors of Patients with Type II Diabetes, Veronica Santos Timple
Dissertation: USD Users Only: The Relationship Between Hospital Construction and High Risk Infant Auditory Function at NICU Discharge: A Retrospective Descriptive Cohort Study, Valerie Willis
Dissertations from 2016
Dissertation: Open Access: Latina Principals in Southern California: A Phenomenological Look into their Journey Towards Leadership, Fabiola Bagula
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Utilizing Clinical Decision Support within the Electronic Health Record to Screen for Palliative Care, Tanja Baum
Dissertation: Open Access: Symptom Experience and Influenza-Like Illness in a Military Population, Monique Bouvier
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Human Papillomavirus Knowledge and Human Papillomavirus Uptake Among U.S. Navy Personnel 18 to 26 Years of Age, Jennifer Jean Buechel
Dissertation: Open Access: Spinning Straw into Gold: A Study of Resource Creation, Flow, and Conversion in a Nonprofit Collaboration, Elizabeth A. Castillo
Dissertation: Open Access: The Multiple Meanings of San Diego's Little Italy: A Study of the Impact of Real and Symbolic Space and Boundaries on the Ethnic Identities of Eight Italian Americans, Thomas Joseph Cesarini
Dissertation: Open Access: School Nurse Perceptions and Decisions about Children Self-Carrying Inhalers in School, Lisa Anne Dominguez Jaurigue
Dissertation: Open Access: Use of Video Games in Patients' Self-management of Pain: A Feasibility Study, Janet Donnelly PhD(c), RN-BC, ACNS-BC, PCCN
Dissertation: Open Access: Avoiding Hospital-Acquired Conditions: A Qualitative Analysis of Early Top Performers, Tammy Doolittle
Dissertation: Open Access: Curricular Instruction of Global Leadership at Colleges and Universities in the United States, Tara L. Edberg
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Interprofessional Team Training in the Pediatric Life Support Program: Effects on Teamwork and Quality of Resuscitations, Mary J. Fagan
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Predictors of Septic Patient Outcomes, Kim Reina Failla
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Lived Experience of Male-To-Female Transgender Youth Accessing Trans-Related Healthcare in Los Angeles, Marcel Fomotar
Dissertation: Open Access: Implementation of Operational Excellence: Challenges Related to Employee Perception and Organizational Culture, Ruben Fontes
Dissertation: Open Access: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Minority Resource Eligibility for Half White Multiracial College Students, Nicholas Reyes Franco
Dissertation: Open Access: Meaning-Making in Student Conduct Administration: A Developmental Perspective, Sean Robert Horrigan
Dissertation: Open Access: Building and Maintaining Relationships Between Superintendents and School Board Members: The Approach of Two Public School Superintendents, Lamont Alexander Jackson
Dissertation: Open Access: Campus Mental Health Practices and the Stigma of Mental Illness: A Quantitative Analysis of Student Affairs Professionals, Megan Krone
Dissertation: Open Access: Clients as Voting Board Members: A Mixed Methods Examination of San Diego County Nonprofit Human Services Organizations, Elaine Marie Lewis
Dissertation: USD Users Only: The Impact of Electronic Health Records on the Quality Outcomes of the Adult Intensive Care Unit, Ahmad Madie
Dissertation: Open Access: Access and Barriers to Care During Transition from Active Duty to Veteran Status in Veterans with Diabetes: A Look at Health Literacy, Change, and Ongoing Diabetes Self-Management Education, Mark R. Malebranche
Dissertation: USD Users Only: A Narrative Inquiry of Student Engagement and Learning in a University-Based Social Venture Plan Competition, Peter Gitonga Maribei
Dissertation: Open Access: Transformative Models in K-12 Education: The Impact of a Blended Universal Design for Learning Intervention, Kai Monet Mathews
Dissertation: Open Access: When Worlds Collide: Bringing the Native/Indigenous Transnational Nonprofit Leader to the Conversation, Christina E. Mitchell
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Leadership Developmental Networks of Professionals of Color: Contemporary Conceptions of Mentoring Relationships, Mai-Anh Tran Ngo
Dissertation: Open Access: In-hospital Factors Associated with Supplementation among Healthy, Full-term, Breastfed Infants, Jodi Kae O'Brien
Dissertation: Open Access: Clones in the MBA Classroom: Understanding the Relationship Between Culture and MBA Students’ Attitudes Toward Socially Responsible Business Leadership: A Mixed Methods Cross-National Study, Juan F. Roche
Dissertation: Open Access: Transitions to Assisted Living Within a Continuing Care Retirement Community, Judith H. Scott
Dissertation: Open Access: A Grounded Theory Approach to Healthy Work Environment: Its Impact on Nurses, Patient Safety, and Significance in Healthcare Settings, Nicole Sevilla-Zeigen
Dissertation: Open Access: "Intonations of their Own Language": An Analysis of Leadership and Resonance in Two Progressive Young-Adult-Filled Congregations in the Pacific Northwest., D. Bethan Theunissen
Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding the Role of Women as Leaders in Mexican Politics: Looking Back and Moving Forward, Rafael Tovar y Lopez-Portillo
Dissertation: Open Access: Who Leads Nonprofit Organizations and What Does it Matter? A Mixed Methods Study of the Impact of Different Sector Experience on Nonprofit Leadership, Darrent Robert Tune
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Julie A. Vignato PhD, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding Women Leaders in a Male-Dominated Profession: A Study of the United States Marine Corps' Women Generals, Marianne S. Waldrop
Dissertation: Open Access: The Effect of Organizational Commitment, Organizational Based Self Esteem and Work Engagement on Nurses' Perception of Medication Errors, Vanessa V. Wertheim
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Intersection of Fat+Wom*n+Leadership: An Action Research Study, Jessica Jamese Williams
Dissertation: USD Users Only: A Phenomenological Study of Young Women With Fibromyalgia: "It's Not All In My Head", Kathryn A. Yates
Dissertation: Open Access: An Exploration of the Use of Photovoice-Inspired Techniques to Facilitate Narrative Leadership in a Small Group of Middle-Aged Women, Michelle M. Zive
Dissertations from 2015
Dissertation: Open Access: Moral Development and Public Health Nursing, Margaret Avila
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring Strategies for Effective Advocacy: The Lived Experience of Leaders of Pakistani Non-Governmental Organizations, Rubina F. Bhatti
Dissertation: Open Access: American Indian Women’s Health Perceptions and Health Promotion Behaviors, Sharon Boothe-Kepple
Dissertation: Open Access: Women Experiencing Aggression From Women: A Mixed Methods Study of How Women Experience Aggression, How it Impacts Leader Efficacy, and How They Navigate Through it, Karen Kitchen Briggs
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Urgent Care Nurse Data Capture: Impact on Diabetes Outcomes, Leslie D. Dela Cruz-Torio
Dissertation: Open Access: Psychoneuroimmunology and Chronic Pain, Sarah E. Giron
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors Associated with High Risk Infant Follow-Up Attendance, Martha Grant Fuller
Dissertation: Open Access: Blended Learning and Bottlenecks in the California State University System: An Empirical Look at the Importance of Demographic and Performance Analytics, Maureen Augusta Guarcello
Dissertation: Open Access: The Relationship Between Toxic Leadership, Organizational Citizenship, and Turnover Behaviors Among San Diego Nonprofit Paid Staff, Melanie J. Hitchcock
Dissertation: Open Access: Motivation for Seeking a Nurse Manager Position: A Qualitative Study, Judy L. Jarnigan White
Dissertation: Open Access: Beyond Generosity: The Action Logics in Philanthropy, Jennifer Amanda Jones
Dissertation: Open Access: The Patient Experience as Rated By Consumers, Barbara Jean Kelley
Dissertation: Open Access: Perinatal Depression and Preterm Birth, Elizabeth C. Light
Dissertation: Open Access: Antepartum, Intrapartum, and Postpartum Predictors of Readiness for Hospital Discharge and Post-Discharge Outcomes, Gabriella Malagon-Maldonado
Dissertation: Open Access: Patients' Perception of Feeling Known by Their Nurses and the Nurse Practice Environment, Deene' L. Mollon
Dissertation: Open Access: Sleep Disordered Breathing and Pregnancy: Prevalence and Outcomes at Delivery, Ryan Lyle Nations
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring Unintended Pregnancy in the United States Military: A Phenomenological Approach, Mary Kathryn Phillips
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Responses of Children Living with Peanut Allergy: The Need to See Beyond the Peanut-Free Lunch Table, Chiarina P. Piazza
Dissertation: Open Access: The Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (RDOS), Pain, and Agitation, Karen Reavis
Dissertation: Open Access: Knowledge of Stroke Symptom and Risk Factors and Acculturation Among Cambodian Immigrants Living in Southern California, Samantha N. Sangsanoi-Terkchareon
Dissertation: Open Access: The Development of Intercultural Maturity in Second Year College Students, Nicole A. Schuessler
Dissertation: Open Access: Hope, Uncertainty, and Coping among Parents of Children with Cancer, Christine Ann Sloan
Dissertation: Open Access: Socially Responsible and Small: A Quantitative Study of Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Medium Organizations in the United States, Abigail Sorenson Berk
Dissertation: Open Access: A Phenomenological Study of Health Professionals’ Perceptions of Good and Bad Pediatric Hospital Deaths, Self-Care Needs and Lingering Distress, Carmen Nichole Spalding
Dissertation: Open Access: Aspiring and Doing Activism Under Repressive Systems: A Narrative Inquiry of Former Student Activists, Kedir Assefa Tessema
Dissertation: Open Access: Home Telehealth in Heat Failure Patients, Tanna R. Thomason
Dissertation: Open Access: Hispanic Mothers’ Narratives: Experiences of Parenting a Child with Cystic Fibrosis, Health Beliefs, and Health Care Experiences Related to Cystic Fibrosis, Linda Tirabassi-Mathis
Dissertation: Open Access: On Moral Imagination and Indigenous Wisdom: How Leaders Approach Moral-Ethical Tension in Post-Modern Bali, Alan James Yu
Dissertations from 2014
Dissertation: Open Access: Determinants of Physical Activity in Arab American Children, Wearn Alkhatib PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring a Diabetic Registry for Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Mary C. Anziano PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Nurse Practice Environment and Peripheral Intravenous Infiltrations in a Pediatric Hospital on the Magnet Journey, Jannise Topacio Baclig PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Facilitating Comprehension and Motivation by Engaging Adolescents as iPad Readers, Virginia M. Bauman EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Is Combat Exposure Predictive of Higher Preoperative Stress in Military Members?, Eric J. Bopp PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Skin Cancer Risk Perception and Sunscreen Use in Adolescent Female Soccer Athletes, Cheryl L. Butera PhD, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, NP-C, PHN
Dissertation: Open Access: Services for Parentally Placed Catholic School Students under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, Julie Cantillon PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Efficacy of Mantram Repetition Program on Sleep in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Lindsay Cosco Holt PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Role of Chief Diversity Officers in Institutionalizing Diversity and Inclusion: A Multiple Case Study of Three Exemplar Universities, Cynthia D. Dávalos PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Fetal Heart Monitoring, Nursing Surveillance, and Cesarean Birth, María del Carmen Colombo PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Relationship between Horizontal Violence among Registered Nurses and Falls, Elizabeth Densford Rocha PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Delirium Rate and Risk Factors in Palliative Care Outpatients and Caregiver Coping Strategies, Sarah Deur Livermore PhD, FNP
Dissertation: Open Access: The Relationship between Perceived Toxic Leadership Styles, Leader Effectiveness, and Organizational Cynicism, James M. Dobbs PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Professional Quality of Life and Emergency Department Nurses' Communication Patterns, Elvira Dominguez-Gomez PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Multi-Level Investigation of Leadership Effectiveness and Systems Awareness in the Leadership Circle Profile, Crystal L. Dujowich PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: We are Not Mahogany an Exploration of the Social Construction of Masculinity in Ugandan Meaning-Making, Nathaniel P. Dunigan PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Gestational Weight Gain Patterns, Hope R. Farquharson PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Does Participation in a Multi-Modal Activity-Based Program Impacts on Functional Recovery, and Quality of Life in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury?, Carolyn S. Gerber PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Comparing Factors of Bachelor's Degree Attainment for First and Continuing Generation Students, Holly Gilbertson Hoffman PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Relationship between Age and Pre-End Stage Renal Disease Care in Elderly Hemodialysis Patients, Rubette Harford PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Decision making and creativity: A qualitative study of MacArthur fellows, Leslie Hennessy Ph.D.
Dissertation: Open Access: Convergence or Divergence of Values? A Comparison Case Study of Teacher Credentialing Programs, Rachel Homel Rice PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Depressive Symptomatology and Perceived Social Support in Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes, Kristiana Gay Huffman Cullum PhD, CPNP
Dissertation: Open Access: Transitioning Adolescents with Type I Diabetes to Adult Care, Kathyann Kenny Marsh PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors Affecting Health Promotion Lifestyle Behaviors among Arab American Women, Kholoud Khalil PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Beyond Biracial: The Complexity of Identity Construction for Women with One Black and One White Parent, Roxanne Kymaani
Dissertation: Open Access: Engineering, Teaching, and Technology: A Nationwide Assessment of Instructional Internet Use by Engineering Faculty, Alexander Lehman PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Study Abroad as a Multifaceted Approach to Supporting College Sophomores: Creating Optimal Environments to Promote Intercultural Maturity, Jessica Luchesi PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Symptom Burden and Healthcare Utilization in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Catherina Anne Madani PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding the Development of Global Leadership Competencies, Andrea L. McMullen PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Case of Reintegration of Women Post Incarceration, Deana Raley Noble PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Phenomenological Study of Acceptability of Preexposure Prophylaxis Therapy within the Lived Experiences of HIV Negative Male-to-Female Transgender Young Adults, Gloria N. Nwagwu PhD