Dissertations from 2004
Dissertation: Open Access: The Efficacy of a School-Based Support Group on Adolescent Self-Esteem and Social Support, Julia Ann Smith PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors Influencing Middle-Aged and Older Latin American Women's Participation in Physical Activity, Stephanie Vaughn PhD
Dissertations from 2003
Dissertation: Open Access: Managing Stigma in Planned Lesbian-Parent Families, Natalie Cheffer PhD, MN, CPNP
Dissertation: Open Access: The Lived Experience of Latina Women Giving Birth in the United States, Ana-Maria Gallo PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Effect of Professionally-Facilitated Group Support on Psychological Well-Being among Clients with Cancer, Joann C. Harper PhD, MS, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: An Interpretive Exploration of the Meaning of Being with Women during Birth for Midwives, Lauren P. Hunter PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Exercise Level and Age as Related to Self-Perceived Physical Health, Mental Health, and Social Health in Older Adults, Barbara Jean Leach PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Wikoff Spiritual Focus Questionnaire, Karen Luther Wikoff PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Justifying Coercion: Nurses' Experiences Medicating Involuntary Psychiatric Patients, Paula K. Vuckovich PhD, RN
Dissertations from 2002
Dissertation: Open Access: Resilience: The Lived Experience of Elderly Widowers Following the Death of a Spouse, Dorothy Battersby Crummy PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Role Perceptions of School Nurses Who Work with Medically Fragile Students, Cay Chapman Casey PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Getting Back: Successful Rehabilitation after a Hip Fracture, Carole Florek Hair PhD, MS, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Development of the Postpartum Smoking Questionnaire (PPSQ), Cynthia J. Gantt PhD, MSN, C-FNP, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: The Development and Psychometric Testing of an Instrument Measuring the Use of Intuition by Nursing Students, Anita Joel Smith PhD, MN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Protective Care: Mothering a Child Dependent on Parenteral Nutrition, Lorie H. Judson PhD, MN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Prenatal Maternal Attachment: The Lived Experience, Regina Ann Leva-Giroux DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: A Study of Quality of Life Issues in Community-Dwelling Elders, Kimberly S. McClane PhD
Dissertations from 2001
Dissertation: Open Access: Women's Experiences With Chronic Heart Failure, Denise M. Boren PhD, MSN, CNS
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Effects of Guilt, Spousal Support, and Role Conflict on the Psychological Well-Being of the Educated Full-Time Stay-at-Home Mother, Susan Donley DeSimone PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Therapeutic Alliance: Development, Evaluation, and Application of the Kim Alliance Scale, Son Chae Kim PhD, MSN, FNP, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Crossing Myriad Borders: A Dimensional Analysis of the Migration and Health Experiences of Indigenous Oaxacan Women, Sharon McGuire PhD, OP, MSN, RN-C
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors Related to Resilience Abilities and Self-Care Practices in Adolescents, Sandra L. Solem PhD, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Effect of Relaxation on Neuro-Immune Responses of Persons Undergoing Chemotherapy, Patricia K. Taylor Pothier PhD, MS, RN
Dissertations from 2000
Dissertation: Open Access: Missionary Nurse Dorothy Davis Cook, 1940–1972: "Mother of Swazi Nurses", Susan Elaine Elliott PhD
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: 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: Crossing the Line: Experiences of the Formerly Homeless Living Past Homelessness, Susan Marie Bennett DNSc, MSN, FNP, RN, CS
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
Dissertations from 1998
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: Being Alone: The Experience of Elderly Homebound Females, Sharon Davis Burt DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Relationships between Posttraumatic Stress, Acculturation, and Maternal Sensitivity in Vietnamese and Hmong Mothers, Gwendolyn F. Foss DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: Acts of Resistance: Nurses' Personal Narratives, Maryanne Garon DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: Conceptual Metaphor in the Health Care Culture, Cheryl D. Glennon DNSc, MS, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: The Journey through Perspective Transformation: Learning Nursing Theory, Judith R. Heggie DNSc, MS, RN
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: History of the United States Air Force Nurse Corps, 1949-1954, Sharon A. Vairo DNSc
Dissertations from 1997
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: 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: 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: 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
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 Journey from Nonexerciser to Exerciser: A Grounded Theory Study, Keri Kuniyoshi Medina DNSc, MS, RN
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
Dissertations from 1995
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: Development and Testing of an Explanatory Model of Registered Nurse Empowerment, Marilyn D. Klakovich DNSc, MSN, RN, CNAA
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
Dissertations from 1994
Dissertation: Open Access: Effects of Family Stress, Family Social Support, and Family Balance on Maternal Adaptation in Post Birth Families, Constance H. Blake Hansen DNSc, MN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: "Well-Growness" of the Newborn and Factors Contributing to Low Birth Weight, Diane Buck Kruse DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors Associated with Women's Decisions to Obtain Routine Cervical Cancer Screening in a Prepaid Health Care System, Vicki DeBaca DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: The Environment: Alive, Whole, Interconnected and Interacting, Dorothy Kleffel DNSc, MPH, BSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Integrating Chronic Illness into One's Life: A Phenomenological Inquiry, Susan Rush Michael DNSc, MS, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: The Lived Experiences of Nurses' Interactions with Ethnically Diverse Clients: A Phenomenological Perspective, Colette R. York DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertations from 1993
Dissertation: Open Access: From Untrained Nurses Toward Professional Preparation in Montana, 1912-1987, A. Gretchen McNeely DNSc, MSN, RNC
Dissertations from 1992
Dissertation: Open Access: Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Nurse Practitioner Practice: A Question of Power, Merrily J. Allen DNSc, MN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Being Pregnant and Using Drugs: A Retrospective Phenomenological Inquiry, Merry A. Armstrong DNSc, MSN
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors Influencing a Battered Woman's Perception of Controllability in Violent Intimate Relationships, Patricia Ann Chin DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Meta-Analysis on Costing Out Nursing Services, Judith G. Eckhart DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: How Latinas Come to Know about AIDS and AIDS Prevention, Patricia Walker Caudle DNSc, MNSc, FNP, RNC
Dissertations from 1991
Dissertation: Open Access: Elders Caring for Elders: Risk of Abuse and Neglect?, Marjorie F. Bendik DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: A Model of Organizational Commitment in Staff Nurses, Donna Burgener Adams DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: Managing Patient Care: A Substantive Theory of Clinical Decision Making in Home Health Care Nursing, Felicitas A. dela Cruz DNSc, MA, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Organized Nursing in the Silver State: A History of the Nevada Nurses' Association, Ellen Suzanne Fries DNSc, MN, RNC
Dissertation: Open Access: Baccalaureate Reentry Students: Effects of Professional Support on Role Conflict and Role Transition, Ruth N. Grendell DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors Related to Body Image Appraisal Associated with Receiving Treatment for a Malignant Brain Tumor, Ruth Ann Mulnard DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors Related to Self-Care Agency and Self-Care Practices of Obese Adolescents, Kathy Shadle James DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: The Moral Reasoning of Nurse Practitioners, Diane C. Viens DNSc, MS, FNP, RNC
Dissertations from 1990
Dissertation: Open Access: The Relationship between Family Functioning and Adolescent Substance Use, Vicky R. Bowden DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: The Essential Characteristics of Advocacy Associated with the Nurse-Client Relationship: The Client's Perspective, Victoria Louise Cole Schonlau DNSc, MPA, BSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Impact of Stress and Coping on Adherence and Health Status in Patients with Hypertension, Diane Darby Goldberger DNSc, MN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Patterns of Psychological Adaptation in Death and Dying: A Causal Model and Exploratory Study, Marjorie C. Dobratz DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: The Nurse Manager: An Ethnography of Hospital-Based First-Line Nurse Managers Practicing in an Expanded Role, Sally Everson-Bates DNSc, MA, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Personal and Organizational Variables Related to the Strength of Mentoring Relationships in Nursing, Willa Fields DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: Nursing Care through the Eyes of the Patient, Donna May Fosbinder DNSc, MSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Well-Being of Elderly Women: Rural-Urban Differences, Betty J. Gale DNSc, MS, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: The Everyday Life Experiences of Three to Six-Year-Old Children with Comforting Possessions, Susan H. Harris DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: Self-Preserving: Patterns Guiding the Experience of Interpersonal Conflict for Female Nursing Faculty, Kathleen L. Harr DNSc, MSN, RN, C
Dissertation: Open Access: Humanistic Caring: Personal Influences, Coping Processes, Psychological Outcomes and Coping Effectiveness, Christine Lynn Latham DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: The Experience of Female Nurses Being Cared for: A Phenomenological Analysis, Sharon Lu Skinner Shetlar DNSc, MS, BSN, RN
Dissertation: Open Access: Autonomy in Practice: Conceptualization, Construction, and Psychometric Evaluation of an Empirical Instrument, Judith Smith Dempster DNSc, MSN, RNC, FNP
Dissertation: Open Access: The Effects of Collaboration, Organizational Climate, and Job Stress on Job Satisfaction and Anticipated Turnover in Nursing, Jaynelle F. Stichler DNSc
Dissertation: Open Access: A Woman for All Seasons: A Biography of Julia Catherine Stimson (1881-1948), Mary T. Weber Sarnecky DNSc, MN, BSN