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Dissertations
Home and community-based service utilization patterns for seniors with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, Margaret E. Saari
Home apnea monitoring: Family functioning, concerns, and coping, Betsy Mickey McDowell
Hopeful adults with advanced stage cancer: nature, influences, focus, and patterns of hope over time, Mary Anne Hales Reynolds
Hope in the elderly: Exploring the relationship between psychosocial developmental residual and hope, Eileen Deges Curl
Hospice interdisciplinary team processes and effectiveness, Beth A. Hale
Hospital-associated functional status decline in pulmonary patients, Amy C. Shay
Hospital discharge preparation for homeward bound elderly, Diane Storer Brown
Hospital nursing organization and outcomes for surgical oncology patients, Christopher R. Friese
Hotspotting in home health: The impact of interprofessional student-team home visits on health outcomes of super-utilizers of the health care system, Jennifer T. Alderman
How do faculty foster the development of nursing student empathy in the clinical learning environment?, Caroline E. Rae
How intensive care unit nurses conceive of personal and professional risk when exercising clinical autonomy, William Albert Randall
How Latinas come to know about AIDS and AIDS prevention, Patricia Walker Caudle
How older adults perceive the terminology "allow natural death": A qualitative dissertation, Jodi A. Erickson
How perioperative nurses define, attribute causes of, and react to intraoperative nursing errors, Robin R. Chard
How persons with schizophrenia experience connecting with mental health professionals, Susan V. Brammer
How the strong survive: Health as expanding consciousness and the life experience of Black Caribbean women, Angelleen R. Peters-Lewis
Humanizing the inhumane: The meaning of the American Indian patient-cancer care nurse relationship, Natalie M. Pool
Hypertension therapeutic goal attainment in patients with dual diagnoses of hypertension and diabetes, Susan Marie Harris
Hypertonic lower extremities in infants: Correlation to motor function scores at thirteen months of age, Susan Jean Brillhart
Ideals for nurses: A study of the "American Journal of Nursing" and "RN", 1940-1960, Lembi Saarmann
Identifying delirium in hospitalized patients using Nursing Delirium Screening Scale, Christina S. Arockiam
Identifying factors influencing pediatric professionals' self-reported collaborative practice behaviors, Susan Kilroy
Identifying learning acquired during debriefing, Shelly J. Reed
