Dissertations from 2017
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring Factors Impacting Veterans' Hypertension Control, Jian Hua Liu
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Patient Knowledge, Perceived Self-Efficacy, and Self-Management Among Patients with Type II Diabetes Mellitus, Razel Bacuetes Milo
Dissertation: USD Users Only: A Feasibility Study Utilizing Clinical Simulation as Pedagogical Praxis for Promoting Caring Behaviors with Associate Degree Nursing Students, Kathleen Marie Rosales
Dissertation: USD Users Only: The Effect of the Military Character of Discharge on Reintegration into the Civilian Community: A Phenomenological Study, Ali Reza Tayyeb
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Open Access: In-hospital Factors Associated with Supplementation among Healthy, Full-term, Breastfed Infants, Jodi Kae O'Brien
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: USD Users Only: Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Julie A. Vignato PhD, RN
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: USD Users Only: A Phenomenological Study of Young Women With Fibromyalgia: "It's Not All In My Head", Kathryn A. Yates
Dissertations from 2015
Dissertation: Open Access: Moral Development and Public Health Nursing, Margaret Avila
Dissertation: Open Access: American Indian Women’s Health Perceptions and Health Promotion Behaviors, Sharon Boothe-Kepple
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: Motivation for Seeking a Nurse Manager Position: A Qualitative Study, Judy L. Jarnigan White
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: Hope, Uncertainty, and Coping among Parents of Children with Cancer, Christine Ann Sloan
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: 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
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: 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: Efficacy of Mantram Repetition Program on Sleep in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Lindsay Cosco Holt 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: Professional Quality of Life and Emergency Department Nurses' Communication Patterns, Elvira Dominguez-Gomez 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: Relationship between Age and Pre-End Stage Renal Disease Care in Elderly Hemodialysis Patients, Rubette Harford PhD, MSN, RN
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: Symptom Burden and Healthcare Utilization in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Catherina Anne Madani 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
Dissertation: Open Access: Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer: Quality of Life and Perception of Dyspnea, Barbara A. Roces PhD, MSN, NP, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Relationship between Participation in Nurse Externship Program and RN Retention and Quality Care, Lourdes C. Salandanan PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Onsite Integrative Clinics: Acupuncture, Positive Patient Outcomes, and Frequency of Provider Office Visits, Sherry Shoemaker PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Hospital Fall Prevention Using Interactive Patient Care Technology, Verna A. Sitzer PhD, MN, RN, CNS
Dissertation: Open Access: Patient Care Technology and the Nurse-Patient Relationship, Belinda M. Toole PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Identification of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Post-ICU Patients, Heather Warlan PhD, RN, CCRN
Dissertations from 2013
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Patients' and Health Care Providers' Perception of Stressors in the Critical Care Units, Alham Abuatiq PhD, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Developing a Clinical Nurse Leader Practice Model: An Interpretive Synthesis, Miriam Bender PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Case Study Exploring Restraint and Seclusion Use in School-Age Children on an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, Michelle Buckman PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Descriptive Exploratory Study of the Experience of Gay Partners of HIV-Positive Men, Jon Christensen PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Nutritional Status of Patients with End Stage Liver Disease: An Outpatient Assessment, Anna Marie Cumming-Browne Hefner PhD, MSN, CPNP, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Caregivers of Older Adults: Burden, Perception of Strain, and Health, Juana Ferrerosa PhD, MSN, RN, PHN
Dissertation: Open Access: Early Identification of At-Risk LPN-to-RN Students, Lisa K. Hawthorne PhD, MSN, RN, PHN, CNE,
Dissertation: Open Access: Effects of Acculturation on Mammography Utilization among Korean American Women, Jungeun K. Kim PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances in Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Heather C. King PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Relationship of Internet-Delivered Mantram Repetition Program to Burnout, Stress of Conscience, Spiritual Wellbeing, and Mindfulness in Healthcare Workers, Sheryl Leary PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Psychometric Properties of Standardized Patient and Faculty Rater's Evaluations of Pre-Licensure Nursing Student Competencies, Karen A. Macauley PhD, DNP, FNP-BC, GNP, BC
Dissertation: Open Access: Description of Medical-Surgical Nurses Care of Patients at Risk for Pressure Ulcers, Barbara Jean Mayer PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Elevated Blood Glucose Levels in the Emergency Department: Missed Opportunity for Informing and Referring, Melissa D. Rouse PhD, RN, CNS-BC, CEN, HACP, CPHQ
Dissertation: Open Access: Quality of Life among Southwest American Indians and Alaska Natives Living with the Hepatitis C Virus, Rydell Todicheeney-Mannes PhD, RN, ACNS-BC
Dissertation: Open Access: Risk-Appropriate Maternal Care: Identifying Risk Factors that Effect Maternal Outcome, Lucy R. Van Otterloo PhD, MSN, RNC, CNS
Dissertation: Open Access: Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life in Arab American Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Yousef Zakarni PhD
Dissertations from 2012
Dissertation: Open Access: Oncology Nurses' Cultural Competence, Knowledge, and Attitudes Toward Cancer Pain, Ayman Alnems PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Pain Management in Triage and Reducing Percentage of Left without Being Seen in an Overcrowded ED, Christina Ballejos-Campos PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Nurse Manager Transformational Leadership Practices and Patient Outcomes Among Magnet and Non-Magnet Hospitals, Bridgett Byrd Sellars PhD, MSN, MA, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Case Study of Parents Caring for a Child Having Type-1 Diabetes With Optimal HgA1c, Elizabeth Ciaccio PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Documentation: Delirium in the Hospitalized Older Adult, Jacqueline Fitzgerald Close PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Health Literacy, Cognitive Impairment, and Medication Adherence in Veterans with Heart Failure, Lee Ann Hawkins PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Breast Health and Mammography Screening in Older Women, Martha A. Ibarra PhD, MSN, ANP, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Inpatient Glycemic Management: Glucose Control Relationship with Hospital Variables, Discharge Planning and Education, Crisamar Javellana-Anunciado PhD, FNP-BC, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Obstructive Sleep Apnea and the Effects of Co-Existing Factors on PACU Stay Time, Shari F. Jones PhD, CRNA
Dissertation: Open Access: Tobacco-Use Promotional Environment and Intrapersonal Environment: Predictors of Smoking Intention Among Young Southern California Thai-American Adolescents, Arpakorn Magkunthod PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: California School Nurses' Knowledge, Attitude, and Intention to Participate in Sexuality Education, Maria G. Matza PhD, MSN, RNC
Dissertation: Open Access: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of the Work of Nurses in Interventional Radiology, Brenda Naef Boone PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Impact of Guided Imagery on Sleep Quality in Mothers of Preterm Infants, Linda M. Schaffer PhD, MN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Relationship between Delirium and Night-Time Interruptions in ICU, Amy R. Stuck PhD, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors and Health Promoting Behaviors that Influence Maternal and Infant Outcomes in Older Pregnant Thai Women, Supawadee Thaewpia PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Public Health Nurse Decisions Regarding At-Risk Postpartum Case Closure, Denise K. Thompson PhD
Dissertations from 2011
Dissertation: Open Access: Lived Experience: East African Somali Speaking Women Accessing the U.S. Healthcare System, Shukri Adam PhD