Dissertations from 2008
Dissertation: Open Access: Asian American Children's Literature: A Qualitative Study of Cultural Authenticity, Virginia S. Loh EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry into Moral Distress, Compassion Fatigue, Medication Error, and Critical Care Nursing, Jeanne Maiden PhD, MS, RN, CNS
Dissertation: Open Access: The Effects of Flaxseed SDG on Perimenopausal Women with Mild Hyperlipidemia, Bonnie Marblestone PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Teachers' Beliefs about the Factors that Support Successful Second Language Acquisition of Elementary School Students, Joann M. McDonald EdD
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Cancer Related Symptom Clusters, Alice E. Noquez PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Contemporary Perspective of Wellness through the Voices of the Kūpuna, Anne P. Odell PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Sense of Humor, Stress and Coping, and Outcomes in Children's Lives, Lambertha Okhuizen-Stier PhD, MPH, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Roots of Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Education, Patricia Ottow Keen EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Provosts in Building a Student Learning Assessment-Supportive Organizational Culture: A Multiple-Site Evaluation within the California State University System, Chris Procello PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Obesity Risk Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Physical Activity in Families of Adolescents, Elaine M. Rutkowski PhD, MSN, RN, CNS
Dissertation: Open Access: An Ethnography Study of HIV Positive Midlife Black Women, Charlotte Stoudmire PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Dyspnea: Effect of Auricular Acupressure in End Stage Lung Cancer Patients, a Pilot Feasibility Study, Roger Alan Strong PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Use of Healing Touch in Adults with Hepatitis C Virus Receiving Interferon and Ribavirin: A Pilot Study, Margaret Ann Taylor PhD, MSN, CNS, HTCP/I
Dissertation: Open Access: E-Coaching in Organizations: A Study of Features, Practices, and Determinants of Use, Rebecca Vaughan Frazee EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Developing an Instrument to Measure School Community Engagement with Implementation of Information Literacy Curriculum, Candace Wexler Aiani EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Transformations with Tai Chi: The Experience of Community-Dwelling Tai Chi Practitioners, Sunny Yim Alperson PhD
Dissertations from 2007
Dissertation: Open Access: Navy Nurses' Experiences during Operation Unified Assistance Aboard the USNS MERCY: A Grounded Theory Study, Angelica L.C. Almonte PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Validating the Experiences of Male Mexican American Community College Transfer Students Studying at Catholic Universities, Eliazer Ayala-Austin EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Examining Stage Theories and the Predisposition to Lead within the Homosexual Community, David Robert Blair EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Lived Experience of Wives and Husbands with Coronary Heart Disease, Patricia A. Bradley PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Psychometric Testing of the Walker's Feelings and Thoughts About Weight Scale in Taiwan, Shu-wen Chang PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Teachers' Perceptions of a 360-Degree Feedback Process, Catriona Collins Moran EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Communication and Leadership: Faculty Perceptions of the Department Chair, Kathleen Czech EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Composite Cognition Instrument for Nursing Care of Combat Casualties, Patricia Frohock Hanes PhD, MSN, MAED, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Pedagogy in Online Graduate Business Learning Environments, Alicia Maria Gallegos Butters EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Transition to Nursing Home of Korean-American Elders, Myungja Kim Hahm PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Stakeholders’ Perspectives of a Catholic K-8 School as a Caring Community, Marci-Anne Hanks EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Emerging Elements of Leadership in a Complex System: A Cognitivist Approach, Kirsten Suzanne Hanson EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Families Moving Forward: Homeless Women with Children Transitioning to Independent Living, Kristin Elizabeth Hoyt PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Integrating Total Disability Management in a Climate of Change: A Case Study, Mary E. Jesko EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Concerns-Based Adoption Model Study of University Instructors Engaged in Faculty Development for Enhancing Learning With Technology, James W. Julius EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Symptom Burden at End of Life in Patients with Terminal and Life-Threatening Illness in Intensive Care Units, Peggy G. Kalowes PhD, MSN, RN, CNS
Dissertation: Open Access: Parental Decision Making in the Administration of Stimulant Medication for their Latency Age Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Randye Kay PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors that Motivate or Discourage Movement into School Leadership Positions and the Implications for Recruitment Policy and Practice, Ginger Lee Blackmon EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: An Empirical Study of Employee Relations and Managerial Malpractice Risks in a Four-Year Public Higher Education System, Robert Lee Brown EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Building Management Bench Strength: A Qualitative Look at a Job Rotation Program, Paige Litton Creager PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Politics and the Glass Ceiling in American Law Enforcement: Why Not More Women Chiefs of Police?, Madeline G. Meistrich EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Experiences of Sacramental Marriage, James Patrick O'Brien EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Adapted Physical Education Enrollment Issues and Exercise Mediators for Students with Disabilities in San Diego County Community Colleges, Toni M. Pfister EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: An Investigation of the Community-Based English Tutoring Program (CBET), Barbara J. Pongsrikul EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Wherry Revisited: An Empirical Examination of the Nonperformance Factors that Influence Variation in a Performance Rating, Raymond B. Roll EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: I Teach What I Do, I Do What I Teach: The Experiences and Impacts of Teaching Artists, Patricia L. Saraniero EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Effects of Instructor Immediacy in Online Learning Environments, Maria Schutt EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Mixed Methods Study on CBAM and the Adoption of Thin Client Computers by Adolescents, Cynthia Sistek-Chandler EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: What’s So Hard About Algebra? A Grounded Theory Study of Adult Algebra Learners, Michael Steele Reese EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Effect of Computer-Aided Instruction on Grades in Middle School Algebra, Patricia A. Taepke EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Relationship between Nurse Manager Leadership Attributes and Nurse Clinical Autonomy: Magnet Versus Non-Magnet Hospitals, Catherine A. Verkaaik PhD
Dissertations from 2006
Dissertation: Open Access: The Effects of Participating in Youth Theater, Mark Plato Arapostathis EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Reconsidering Academic Dishonesty: A Critical Examination of a Complex Organizational Problem, Tricia Bertram Gallant PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Gender Influences in the Graduate Classroom: An Investigation of Female and Male Student Perceptions, Gerald B. Blanton EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: What are they Saying: Voices from the Inner City? Lived Experience of Inner City African American Adolescents with Asthma, Othello Childress PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Resilience and Quality of Life in Taiwanese Survivors of Childhood Cancer, Li-Na Chou PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Beholding the Beauty of Self: The Psychological Integration of the Afrocentric-Self among African-American Females Socialized in a Eurocentric Aesthetic, Donna Lynn Cook PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Acts 2:42 in 2006: Examining Small Group Discussion in an American Mega-Church, Sheri Guseman EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Officers' Use of Leadership Skills Learned in the Navy's Intermediate Officer Leadership Training Course: A Replication Study, Terrence Eugene Hammond EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Older Single Women in Transition: Moving to a Supportive Retirement Community, Linda L. Hansen-Kyle PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Investigating Professional Development in Technology for Literacy Teachers, Michanne Hoctor EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Healthcare Encounters of Formerly Incarcerated Women: A Grounded Theory Study, Karen Sue Hoyt PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Personalization for English Learners at a Small Conversion High School, Mary Jewell EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Nurse Practitioner Adoption of Clinical Innovations, Rhoberta Jones Haley PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: They Who Persist: A Longitudinal Quantitative Case Study of a University Student Cohort, Kenneth J. Marra PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: So You Think It's Inclusion…Think Again: A Quantitative Analysis of Stakeholder Perceptions in Community Youth Organizations, Mary McAllister Shea EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Mentoring of Special Education Administrators, Deborah McDonald Toups EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Changes in Functional Status of Home Health Cardiac Patients from Admission to Discharge, Mary Rita McGoldrick PhD, MPH, MSN, RN, ANP-BC
Dissertation: Open Access: Clients' Expectations of Public Health Nurses' Home Visits, Eva G. Miller DNSc, MS, RN, PHN
Dissertation: Open Access: Creativity Fostering Behaviors in the Nurse Educator, Barbara Neher Taylor PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: African American Father-Child Reproductive Health Communication, Nnenna Ohalete PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Connecting Art and Science: An Interdisciplinary Strategy and its Impact on the Affective Domain of Community College Human Anatomy Students, Kevin Petti PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Defining Health and Health-Related Behaviors Following a Near-Death Experience, Suzanne C. Robertson PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: An Exploration of Supportive Relationships in the Lives of Academically Successful Individuals with Autism, Jodi Ann Robledo PhD
Dissertation: USD Users Only: How teachers define "highly qualified" for themselves and their profession, Johanna Kristine Rodenberg
Dissertation: Open Access: Access to Care: The Experience of Community-Dwelling Older Adults Receiving Medicare and Medicaid, Mary Ann Simanello PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: The Reluctant Sorority: Stories of American Wives of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, 1965–1973. Lessons in Exercising Leadership in the Absence of Power, Steven L. Smith EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Dilemma of Disclosure for College Students with Attention Deficit Disorder, Teresa L. Spoulos EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Retrospective Evaluation of the Planetree Patient Centered Model of Care Program's Impact on Inpatient Quality Outcomes, Susan Stone PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Navigating the Rules of Clinical Practicum Work: An Interpretive Study of the Experiences of Associate Degree Nursing Students, Leonie L. Sutherland PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Relationship between Coping, Anxiety, and Quality of Life for Taiwanese Post-Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Patients, Heng-Hsin Tung PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Effects of Organizational Trust, Pablo Velez PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Exercise Self-Efficacy, Stages of Exercise Change, Health Promotion Behaviors, and Physical Activity in Postmenopausal Hispanic Women, Pamela Wolfe Kohlbry PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Male Arab-Muslims Health and Health Promotion Perceptions and Practices, Abdel-Raheem O. Yosef PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Homeless Mothers' Perceptions of Parenting in Shelters, Sarah E. Young Whitaker DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertations from 2005
Dissertation: Open Access: Confronting the Intra-Racial Gender Gap: A Quantitative Study of the Impact of Gender on African American Students' Perceptions of Campus Climate at a Predominantly White Institution, Tiffany N. Carpenter EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Asian American Females in Educational Leadership in K-12 Public Schools, Dina Castillo Pacis EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Seeking Life Balance: The Perceptions of Health of Cambodian Women in Resettlement, Olivia Catolico PhD, MSN
Dissertation: Open Access: Unintended Pregnancy Prevention and Active Duty Women, Min S. Chung-Park PhD, MSN, WHNP
Dissertation: Open Access: Culture and Motivation in Online Learning Environments, Frances A. Clem EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Chronically Ill Adolescents' Involvement in Health Treatment Decision Making, Edna B. Domingo PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Linking Succession Planning to Employee Training: A Study of Federal Employees, Douglas E. Fenner EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: How School Counselors Gain Support to Implement Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Programs, Jo Ann Grant EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Enhancing Motivation Using the Constructs of Flow in Museum Education Activities, Maria C. Grant EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: An Examination of the Media's Framing of the Illegal Street Racing Issue, Kevin Andrew Igasaki EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Courage to Change: Striving for Magnet Hospital Recognition, Janet M. Jones EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: From Presence to “E-Presence” in Online Nursing Education, Lisa M. Kaiser PhD, MSN, BSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: High School Principals' Values and their Symbolic and Cultural Leadership Approaches to Character Education in China, T.C. Kao EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Incidence and Clinical Predictors of Risk Factors for Inappropriate Shock in Patients with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators, Shu-Ling Lo PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Reconciling Temporalities: A Substantive Explanation of the Origins of Difficulty in the Nurse Patient Encounter, Marilyn Theresa Macdonald PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Essential Features of Cultural Proficiency in American International Schools in Latin America: A Delphi Study, Rebecca McBride Bustamante EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Facing the Leadership Challenges on Decommissioning United States Navy Ships, Darren J. McGlynn EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Navigating the Change of Life: The Menopausal Transition of Thai Immigrant Women, Bulaporn Natipagon-Shah PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Connecting the Dots: A Study of an Innovative Principal Preparation Program's Impact on the Mental Models and On-The-Job Behaviors of Aspiring School Leaders, Rich Newman EdD