Dissertations from 2024
Dissertation: Open Access: Verbal Abuse, Violence Prevention Climate, and Psychological Safety Among Pediatric Nurses, Donna Bigani
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Relationships Between Health Literacy and HbA1c in a Rural Border Region, Stephen Jaime
Dissertation: Open Access: Caregiver Support for Patients Diagnosed with Dementia, Michelle N. Kabakibi
Dissertation: Open Access: Reducing Maternal Morbidity from Peripartum Hemorrhage in Cesarean Delivery, Jennie Lee
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Parental Perceptions of Childhood Vaccines: A Qualitative Study, Jenna Scarafone
Dissertations from 2023
Dissertation: Open Access: Anxiety and Agitation in Adult Patients Admitted to an Emergency Room during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Doris L. Asombrado
Dissertation: Open Access: LOST IN INTERPRETATION: THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF NURSE INTERPRETERS IN THE CLINICAL SETTING, Byron Batz
Dissertation: Open Access: Nursing Education in Complementary Alternative Modalities: A Case Study, Deborah Bird
Dissertation: Open Access: ATRIAL FIBRILLATION MANAGEMENT IN HISPANIC ADULTS, Tania Borja
Dissertation: Open Access: Nurse Practitioner's Perspectives on Human Trafficking in the Emergency Department; A Narrative Inquiry, Ann Gerhart
Dissertation: USD Users Only: THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF CAREGIVING AMONG TAIWANESE CAREGIVERS OF AGING RELATIVES WITH DEMENTIA, Chiung-Mei Liu
Dissertation: USD Users Only: The Registered Nurse Experience Delivering Care to a Difficult Patient: A Qualitative Study, Stacy L. Nilsen
Dissertation: Open Access: Adherence to Antihypertensive Medications among African Americans Adults, Obiageli Obah-Mbanefo
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Latinas Lived Experience of IPV Amidst the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Los Platos Sucios se Lavan en Casa, Lorena Perez
Dissertation: Open Access: The Lived Experience of Patients with Clostridioides difficile, Andrea Scherschel
Dissertation: Open Access: MANTRAM FOR MAMAS: A PILOT STUDY FOR POSTPARTUM WOMEN, Ritamarie Smedile
Dissertation: Open Access: Social Determinants of Health and Health Confidence, Laura Truman
Dissertations from 2022
Dissertation: Open Access: Correlates of Health Literacy and Perceptions of Burden Among Caregivers of Persons Diagnosed with Chronic Illnesses, Mubarak Aldawsare
Dissertation: Open Access: TRAUMA RECIDIVISM: THREAT ORIENTATIONS AND RECURRENT INJURY PERCEPTIONS, Molly Bauer and Ann M. Mayo
Dissertation: Open Access: Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experience of New Graduate Nurses Caring for Hospitalized Patients Living with Dementia, Geline Buenconsejo
Dissertation: Open Access: REMIFENTANIL PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA USE IN LABORING WOMEN: A FEASIBILITY AND ACCEPTABILITY STUDY, Joshua Carr
Dissertation: Open Access: Cardiology Implications of ED COVID-19 Patients in an Underserved Rural Health Care Environment, Pedro Colio
Dissertation: Open Access: A Description of Impostor Phenomenon in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologists, Jeffrey R. Darna
Dissertation: Open Access: Biomarkers and Factors related to Risk of Acute Kidney Injury, Mary Ann David
Dissertation: Open Access: Interventional Radiology Procedures Without Sedation: The Nurse Experience, Catherine De Leon
Dissertation: Open Access: Patient Perception of Intensive Care Unit Discomfort, Essa Hakamy
Dissertation: Open Access: Transitioning Eating Practices of Older Adults, Michelle Lajoy Jackson
Dissertation: Open Access: Transitions in Palliative Care: Referral Time and Healthcare Utilization in Advanced Stage Colon, Rectal and Lung Cancer Patients., Ann Lawani
Dissertation: Open Access: Adults with Preexisting Diagnosis of Heart Failure in the Environment of Coronavirus Disease 2019, Ronald Phillips
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Examining the Patient Preference Aspect of the Patient Experience Amid a Pandemic, Sheree Scott
Dissertations from 2021
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Exploring the Decontamination Process for Reusable Medical Devices (RMDs), Rocelle Aglugub
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Experiences of African American Male Veterans Accessing Mental Health Treatment, catherine Baker
Dissertation: USD Users Only: A Retrospective Analysis To Determine If Obstructive Sleep Apnea During Pregnancy is a Predictor of Length of Stay in Women Who Delivered in a MilitaryTreatment Facility, Elizabeth Boulette
Dissertation: Open Access: A Qualitative Exploration of the Patient Care Experience as Perceived by Hispanic Patients Receiving Care at a Safety-net Facility, Silvinia Cuizon
Dissertation: Open Access: Suicide Mortality of Emergency Department Patients, Briony Marie DuBose MHI, RN, LSS, BB
Dissertation: Open Access: The Associations of Chronic Stress, Social Support, Health Behaviors and Metabolic Syndrome among Hispanic Women, Edna Esquer
Dissertation: Open Access: Strategies for the Improvement of Healthcare through Simulation, Roger Lankheet
Dissertation: Open Access: Feasibility of Online Nutritional Counseling and/or Remote Self Weighing in Pregnant Women With Obesity, Rebecca Mattson
Dissertation: Open Access: Food Insecure COPD Patients and Healthcare Utilization: A Retrospective Study, Kristine Mendoza
Dissertation: Open Access: Life Satisfaction: Aging Female Informal Caregivers of Persons with Dementia, Deborah Ann Monson
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Mental Health Correlates Among Pregnant Women Who Use Cannabis in the United States, My Hanh Nguyen
Dissertation: USD Users Only: The Lived Experience of Military Women with Chronic Pain: A Phenomenological Study, Sandra W. Peppard
Dissertation: Open Access: Timing of Therapeutic Hypothermia & Short-Term Infant Outcomes, Brooke Rakes
Dissertation: Open Access: Time to Medical Help-Seeking for Adults Who Experience Symptoms of Stroke in a California-Mexico Border Region, Jean Rockwell
Dissertation: Open Access: Neonatal Toxic Stress and Long-Term Neurodevelopment in Premature Infants, Rachelle Sey
Dissertation: Open Access: Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions for Adult Cancer Patients Post Outpatient Chemotherapy: Does the Oncology Nurse Navigator Make a Difference?, Sunny L. Stirling
Dissertations from 2020
Dissertation: Open Access: Health Care Access and Utilization by U.S. Farmworkers, Genesis Bojorquez
Dissertation: Open Access: Treatments for Cancer Given Orally: Patients' Perceptions of Distress Due to Financial Toxicity, Ellen Carr
Dissertation: Open Access: The Relationship between Race and Ethnicity and Serious Safety Events in Hospitalized Patients, Samantha Crandall
Dissertation: Open Access: Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in the Emergency Department, Nicole Martinez
Dissertation: Open Access: An Examination of the Night Burn Clinic Transition to Nurse Practitioner Coverage, Kevin J. Maxwell DNP, FNP-BC
Dissertation: Open Access: Patient-Specific Factors Associated with Surgical Delay in a Large Academic Hospital, Natalie Meyers
Dissertation: Open Access: Veteran Specific Risk Factors for Delirium, Allison Perkins
Dissertation: Open Access: Chronic Pain, Sleep Disruption, and Work Performance in the Military, Jeffrey Ransom
Dissertation: Open Access: Pain and Spiritual Distress at End of Life, Kathryn Lee Robinson
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Improving Perioperative Pain in Bariatric Surgery Patients with use of Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) Blocks, Leslie Washington
Dissertation: Open Access: Barriers and Facilitators to Opioid Use Treatment and Recovery Services During Pregnancy, Loralie Woods
Dissertation: Open Access: Frailty and Post-Operative Outcomes in Adult Hip Fracture Patients, Melissa Yager
Dissertations from 2019
Dissertation: Open Access: Patient’s Utilization of Health Information Technologies for Disease Self-Management, Mahmoud Hamzeh Altawalbih
Dissertation: Open Access: Early Identification and Intervention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Using an Implantable Cardiac Monitor to Significantly Improve Guideline-Based Anticoagulation Therapy in an Outpatient Cardiology Clinic, Lisa Alvarez
Dissertation: Open Access: The Lived Experience of Spiritual Well-Being Amongst Informal Caregivers of Persons with Dementia on Palliative Care Living at Home, Michael Baumgardner
Dissertation: Open Access: Nurse Family Member Perceptions of Patient Death and Nursing Care after Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment, Deena Drake
Dissertation: Open Access: Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Stigma, and Social Support among Postpartum Women, Ellen K. Fleischman
Dissertation: Open Access: Psychiatric Patients’ Perception of Involvement in the Plan of Care, Jaspal Kaur Gill
Dissertation: Open Access: The Lived Experience of Discharged and Readmitted African Americans with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease to a Safety-Net Hospital, Kiiyonna Jones
Dissertation: Open Access: The Use of Clinical Decision Support to Improve Nursing Practice, Kathleen Klimpel
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Covariates of Return of Spontaneous Circulation (ROSC) in Adults, Dorothy Lang
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Galactagogue Use, Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Insufficient Milk Supply, Michelle Tai-Chi Lee
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Factors Associated with 30-day Hospital Readmissions Among Older Adults with Dementia, Lynell Lemon
Dissertation: Open Access: Delirium in Long Term Care Rehabilitation Residents: A Correlational Retrospective Study, Rebecca Lerma-Kjonegaard
Dissertation: Open Access: Older Adults’ Implementation of Discharge Instructions Following an Acute Care Hospital Stay, Brenda Miller
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors Related to 30-Day Readmission among Hispanics with Type 2 Diabetes, Athena Mohebbi
Dissertation: Open Access: Patient Outcomes Associated With Delayed Rapid Response System Activation: A Retrospective Comparative Study, Ricardo Padilla
Dissertation: Open Access: Patient Perception of Fall Risk and High Fall Risk Screening Scores, Nicole D. Pena
Dissertation: Open Access: Adult Postoperative Open-Heart Patients: Anemia and 30-Day Hospital Readmission, Lindsey Ryan
Dissertation: Open Access: Lived Experience after Surgery among Hispanic Adults, Kimberly Sanchez
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Homeless Persons Perception of Living in a Long-Term Care Facility, Janice Woods
Dissertations from 2018
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Exploring the Journey: Overcoming the Life of Sex Trafficking, Cheryl Boyd
Dissertation: Open Access: Bariatric Surgery Regain and Long-Term Weight Loss among Women: Self-Efficacy, Social Support and Health Promotion Lifestyle Behaviors, Raelene Z. Brooks
Dissertation: Open Access: Identification of Nurse-Controlled Predictors of Pain in Patients Undergoing a Total Hip or Total Knee Arthroplasty, Melodie Ruth Daniels
Dissertation: Open Access: The Association of Kangaroo Mother Care, Energy Conservation, and Bonding in Preterm Neonates, Dorothy Forde
Dissertation: Open Access: Oxygen Consumption in Sepsis, Julie Graham
Dissertation: USD Users Only: ICU Delirium and the Relationship with Pre-Existing PTSD within the Veterans Population, Evangeline Howard
Dissertation: Open Access: Examining the Relationships Between Ethnicity, Palliative Care and Readmissions in the Heart Failure Population, Deanna Johnston
Dissertation: Open Access: The Effect of Mantram Repetition on QOL in Low-income, Urban Dwelling Older Adults, Marissa Katerina Mackiewicz
Dissertation: Open Access: Priapism Among Male Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease, Prince Ocansey
Dissertation: Open Access: Orthopedic Nurse Practitioner as a Subspecialty: A Case Study, Debra M. Palmer
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Patient Activation and Self-Management of Hemoglobin A1C among Filipinos, Arlin Ramira
Dissertation: Open Access: Barriers and Perceptions to obtaining Palliative Care in the Emergency Department, Jacqueline Lucille Saucier
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Relationship between Family Social Capital and Utilization of Well Child Preventative Health Care Services, Kristi K. Westphaln
Dissertations from 2017
Dissertation: USD Users Only: The Impact of Practice Environment and Nursing Workload on Patient Outcomes among Non-Magnet Hospitals in Saudi Arabia, Mohammed G. Alghamdi
Dissertation: Open Access: The Lived Experience of Intersectionality Among African American Women with Breast Cancer, Teri D. Armour Burton
Dissertation: Open Access: Second-Generation Thai American Women's Perceptions on Cervical Cancer Screening, Essie Asawapornmongkol
Dissertation: USD Users Only: i-MOM: Improving Maternal-fetal Outcome Monitoring, Elizabeth Blu Bamgbose
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Technology versus Touch: Targeting Heart Failure Self-Care in Older Adults, Millicent Guiaya De Jesus
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Correlates of Diabetes Self-Management Among Filipinos, Dinnah Lumibao Didulo
Dissertation: Open Access: Social Ecological Factors Associated with Parental Vaccination Decisions and Perceptions of Barriers to Childhood Immunizations, Catherine A. Ferris
Dissertation: Open Access: Mexican-Born Immigrant Decision-Making About Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes, Virginia Lynn Hart-Kepler
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Women Living with HIV/AIDS and Disclosure, Monique A. Lineback
Dissertation: Open Access: The Health of Human Trafficking Victims in San Diego, California: A Retrospective Study, Noelle Lipkin Leveque