Dissertations from 2000
Dissertation: Open Access: Comparison of Health Promotion Behaviors and Performance on the Navy Physical Readiness Test among Active Duty Shipboard Personnel with and without Anterior Knee Pain, Robin Theresa McKenzie PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: A Comparative Study of Leadership Characteristics of Principals in Charter Schools and Traditional Schools, Roger M. Mestinsek EdD
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Historical Perspective on the Implementation of Inclusive Education in Selected Schools in the Diocese of San Diego, Jennifer Preimesberger EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Noneconomic Barriers to Health Care Utilization by African-Americans, Johnie M. Tarver PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Adolescent Perceptions of Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Pregnancy, Susan L. Tohm Lloyd PhD, MS, RN
Dissertations from 1999
Dissertation: Open Access: Giving Up and Giving In: Young Adolescents' Dilemmas when Caring for a Grandparent with Alzheimer's Disease, Diane Lee Beach EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Crossing the Line: Experiences of the Formerly Homeless Living Past Homelessness, Susan Marie Bennett DNSc, MSN, FNP, RN, CS
Dissertation: Open Access: The Community College Coach: Leadership Practices and Athlete Satisfaction, Jodi P. Coffman EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Games Leaders Play: Collaborative Leadership Development through Simulations in Knowledge-Based Organizations, John Paul Dentico EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors Related to Stage at Diagnosis in African-American and Caucasian Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer in the Military Health System, Sandra C. Garmon Bibb DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Story as a Means to Distributed Cognition in Dispute Mediation, Mary Lindsay EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Professional Competency Survey of Organizational Consultants in San Diego County, Angie Mays EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Relationship of Principal Leadership Styles and School-Site Conditions to Stress Levels of Elementary School Teachers, Mark Nicholas Remy EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Diversity, Collaboration, Reflective Practice, and Technology in Professional Education Programs: Strategic Choices for Higher Education, Caren L. Sax EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Towards a New Theory of Personal Teaching Efficacy: The Development and Testing of a New Model and Scale Using Teachers and Student Teachers Participating in a Reflective Practitioner Model Practicum, Jan Shields EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Lifting the Veil off Widowhood: Portraits of Transformation, Louise A. Stanger EdD
Dissertations from 1998
Dissertation: Open Access: A Theoretical Perspective of Factors that Relate to the Functional Independence of Mature Adults, Richard N. Ashden EdD,DC
Dissertation: Open Access: Teachers' Perspectives from within a School Leadership Team: A Phenomenological Study, Sheridan L. Barker EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Major Trauma Outcomes: At What Cost? And for Whom? A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, A. Elaine Bond DNSc, MSN, APRN, CCRN
Dissertation: Open Access: Confronting First Nations Cultural Genocide: Showcasing Perspective of Cree Elders for Identity and Leadership Renewal, Phyllis S.A. Cardinal EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Being Alone: The Experience of Elderly Homebound Females, Sharon Davis Burt DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Shared Governance in the British Columbia Post-Secondary Education System: The Boards' Role in Decision-Making, Edwin Deas EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: An Analysis of Dialogue for Understanding Educators' Stress: Implications for Voice, Listening and Leadership, Joanna R. Doonan EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: California African-American Infant Mortality Prevention: A Prospective Study, Clara H. Eder EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Relationships between Posttraumatic Stress, Acculturation, and Maternal Sensitivity in Vietnamese and Hmong Mothers, Gwendolyn F. Foss DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: Transborder Economic Development: A Collaborative Partnership in the San Diego-Tijuana Region, Piedad Garcia EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Acts of Resistance: Nurses' Personal Narratives, Maryanne Garon DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: Observing the Spirit of Resilience: The Relationship between Life Experiences and Success in Higher Education for African-American Students, Cheryl Getz EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Conceptual Metaphor in the Health Care Culture, Cheryl D. Glennon DNSc, MS, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: An Analysis of the Pedagogical Methods of Hindu Gurus, Pearl Anjanee Gyan EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Journey through Perspective Transformation: Learning Nursing Theory, Judith R. Heggie DNSc, MS, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Reflections of Reflections of Reflections: A Multi-Case Study of Women Educators' Callings to the High Arctic, Judith Knapp EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Market Values in Education: A Case Study of its Effect on the Principal's Model for School Governance in Alberta, Dean G. Lindquist EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Toward Cooperative Ethics: A Ricoeurian Reading of the Educational Aim of Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta Founder of the Mondragon Cooperatives, Virgil Lorenzo EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Collaborative Teaching Practices for a New Century: A Descriptive Case Study of Peer Coaching, Nance Maguire EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Experience of Decision-Making among Telephone Advice/Triage Nurses, Ann Mayo DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: The Relationship of Self-Esteem, Learned Resourcefulness and Social Support to Health-Related Quality of Life in Long-Term Cancer Survivors, Leli W. Pedro DNSc, MS, RNC, OCN
Dissertation: Open Access: Ethnographic Inquiry of Social Support throughout Women's Labor and Childbirth Experiences, Nancy Jane Pinder Saks DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Testing a Theoretical Model of Critical Thinking and Cognitive Development, Jane Rapps DNSc, MS, MSEd, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: The Role of the Site Facilitator in the New Directions in Distance Learning Project, Isabel Ries EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Voices Against Discrimination and Exclusion: Latino School Leaders' Narratives for Change, Jaime J. Romo EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Development of an Instrument to Identify Differing Views of Leadership within Organizations, Robert W. Siciliani EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Storytelling in Project Heart to Heart: A Means to Bridge Generational Gap in Post-1965 Filipino Immigrant Families, Juanita Toledo Santos Nacu EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: History of the United States Air Force Nurse Corps, 1949-1954, Sharon A. Vairo DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: Identification of Core Multidisciplinary Competencies in an Integrated Public Health and Human Service System, Brian Winslow Thomas Moffitt EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Leadership Responses to Change in 21st Century California State University Physical Education/Kinesiology Departments, Paulette Wong Hopkins EdD
Dissertations from 1997
Dissertation: Open Access: Common Higher Callings to Social Compassion: A Phenomenological Study of Civic Praxis, Herbert J. Barker EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Empowering Teachers, Empowering Leadership: A Multisite Case Study of School Restructuring and Accountability for Student Achievement, Sally Jean Bennett EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Political Behavior of California Community College Nursing Facilities in Response to Budget Cutbacks, 1982-1987, Karen J. Berger EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Perspectives of the Woman/Nurse/Executive Working in the Managed Care Environment of Southern California, Cheryl Lynn Brandi DNSc, MS, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Total Quality Management: Bridging Theory to Practice, Richard Ross Brydges EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Romanticizing Leadership: A Historical and Cultural Critique, Elisa Maureen Sandra Carlson EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Enter the Water Carriers: Embracing Parenting Experience in Work Teams, Christine Cecil EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Experiences of Taiwanese Women Caregiving for Parents-in-Law, Shu-Yuan Chao DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: The Process of Ending Domestic Violence among Latinas: Aguantando No Mas, Nancy A. Coffin-Romig DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Teammind: A Case Study of Collective Synergism, Team Development, and Decision-Making under Time Constraints, Norina E. Finley EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Correlates of Staff Nurse Work Satisfaction in Hospitals with Shared Governance, Mary Kay Flynn DNSc, RN, CCRN
Dissertation: Open Access: Role Expectation of Chief Nurse Executive Officers in Integrated Healthcare Systems Located in Highly Managed Care Markets, Daniel L. Gross DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: The Lived Experience of Women Prior to Hospitalization for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Llamae R. Hughes DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: The Work of Living with HIV: A Study of Binational Groups, Christina Joy DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: Cultural Discovery in Nursing Practice: The Experience of Nurses' Who Work with Vietnamese, Evelyn Labun DNSc, MScN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: A Phenomenological Inquiry of Nurse Transition to Family-Centered Perinatal Nursing, Paula Kaye Lilja DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Leadership from the Perspectives of Filipino-Americans: A Delphi Study, Pablo J. Mendoza EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Measure of Perceived Power in Influencing Change among Selected Education Participants in Alberta, Frederick Arnold Preston EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Clashing Cultures or Collaborating Networks: A Study of Organization Culture in Breast Cancer Prevention, Joseph V. Raffa EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Igniting the Mind: Engaging Nursing Students in the Process of Learning, Jo-Ann L. Rossitto DNSc, MA, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: An Evaluation of the Efficacy of Selected Nonpharmacologic Pain Interventions in Infants, Cindy Smith Greenberg DNSc, MS, RN, CPNP
Dissertation: Open Access: Living with Changing Health: Perimenopause among Chinese Women in Taiwan, Lee-Ing Tsao DNSc, MNSc, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Determinants of Health-Promoting Lifestyle among Nurses in Taiwan, Chou Chuan-Chiang Yao DNSc, MS, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Implementation of Continuous Quality Improvement in a Community Mental Health Care Center: Effect on Morale, Gary Dean Zomalt EdD
Dissertations from 1996
Dissertation: Open Access: Young Adult Women's Responses to Undergoing Treatment for Early Breast Cancer, Donna Abrashoff Schutte DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: The Effect of Written Information and Reassurance on Patient Satisfaction, Anxiety, and Intent to Return for Emergency Care, June Andrea DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: Ethical Decision-Making among Critical Care Unit Nurses, Mary Ellen Bowen DNSc, MN, RN, CNAA
Dissertation: Open Access: Nursing Faculty Connecting with Students: A Heideggerian Hermenteutical Study, Debra I. Craig DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: The Role of the Principal when Parents are Increasingly Involved in Decision-Making, Inge Ellefson EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Women Mentoring Women: A Phenomenological Study, Jacqueline Jachym Fitzpatrick EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Involving Latino Parents in the Middle-Level School: A Study of First-Generation and Second-Generation Mexican and Mexican-American Parents, Elva Hernández Mora EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Experiences of Mid-Career Elementary Teachers, Susan H.L. Johnston EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Journey from Nonexerciser to Exerciser: A Grounded Theory Study, Keri Kuniyoshi Medina DNSc, MS, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Integrating Knowledge and Action: A Study of Leadership in the Development of Master's Degree Programs in Liberal Studies, Janet L. Littrell EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: School Reform: Leadership through Shared Decision-Making, Mary Juliet Martel EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: An Evaluation Case Study of the Effects of a Learning Style Awareness Program for Ninth Graders at an Independent School, Dorene Casey McLaughlin EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Children with HIV: How they Feel About What Parents Say, Susan Pease Instone DNSc, MSN, CPNP
Dissertation: Open Access: Helper Woman: A Biography of Elinor Delight Gregg, Jacqueline S. Pflaum DNSc, MPH, MS
Dissertation: Open Access: Voices of Midlife Tomboys: A Narrative Study, Jan Secrist EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Wrath of Ignorance: Schizophrenic Policies in Access to Health Care for Undocumented Latinas, Antonia J. Spadaro EdD
Dissertations from 1995
Dissertation: Open Access: The Phenomenon of Flow as Experienced by Classroom Teachers: Implications for Leadership Practice, Alyson B. Caouette EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: A History of the Concept of Creativity in Western Nursing: A Cultural Feminist Perspective, Karen K. Fritz DNSc, MS, BA, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Historical Case Study: San Diego and Tijuana Border Region Relationship with the San Diego Police Department, 1957-1994, Adolfo Gonzales EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Secondary School Assistant Principal, Victoria W. Halsey EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Decade of Home Schooling in Saskatchewan, Canada (1984-1994): A Case Study, Sandra Christine Hill EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Development and Testing of an Explanatory Model of Registered Nurse Empowerment, Marilyn D. Klakovich DNSc, MSN, RN, CNAA
Dissertation: Open Access: Development of a Participative Approach to Guide Organizational Change: Reviewing the Sawtooth Technique, Port Robert Martin EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Identification of Behavioral Indicators of a Superintendent's Leadership Success: A Delphi Study, Douglas George Player EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Impact of Community Service-Learning on Student Development, as Perceived by Student Leaders, Judith Starr Rauner EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Women and Men in Collaborative Working Partnerships: Connecting Two Disparate Modes of Experience, Steven Blue Robbins EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Awakening Intuition: A Delphi Study, Verna Veronica Schmidt EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Model of Patient Satisfaction and Behavioral Intention in Managed Care, Diane Sturdy Greeneich DNSc, MS, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Care of Aging Parents: The Experiences of Middle-Aged Filipino Women, Carmen B. Toledo Galang DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Illness Impact and Adjustment to Parkinson's Disease: Before and After Treatment with Tolcapone, Mickie D. Welsh DNSc, RN