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DNP Capstone Projects
The impact of nurse to nurse mentoring in leadership skills development - RNMentor2Mentor, Linda Macera-DiClemente and Connie M. Smith
The individualized multidisciplinary immediate fall response program, Adenike Y. Awotundun
The nurse's role in gender identification, Melissa Kay Haworth
The relationship between just culture, trust, and patient safety, Linda Ann Paradiso
The use of the Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit on patients undergoing a hip or knee joint replacement or revision, Kathleen Mitchell
This is my story: Using patient personalization posters to improve nurses' caring behaviors, Kelly S. Johnson
Transitional care medical house call: A pilot project, Ron Billano Ordona
Transitioning from hospital to home: An evidence-based approach in heart failure patients, Donna G. Flynn
Use of comprehensive care coordinator telephonic outreach to increase colorectal cancer screening in primary care, Sarah N. Klotz
Use of simulation within nursing education to assist students to meet standardized test plan components, Christina Liebrecht
Utilizing the SmokefreeTXT text messaging service to aid smokers to stop smoking in a primary care setting, Alexander L. Young
Verification methods of nasogastric and orogastric tubes: Improved patient outcomes through nurse adherence to practice guidelines, Jennifer M. Kaple
Dissertations
A basic qualitative exploration into the academic persistence of minority nursing students in minority nursing programs, Marta S. Coleman
A brief nursing workload scale: Development and evaluation, Eve Lynn Layman
Academic achievement in children with new-onset seizures or asthma, Angela Marie McNelis
Academic nurse educator attitudes regarding their role educating ethnically and racially diverse nursing students: A focused ethnography, Melissa Lillian Weir
Academic nursing administrators' experiences with social distancing during COVID-19: A qualitative study, Vineta Mitchell
Academic success factors influencing linguistically diverse and native English speaking associate degree nursing students, Josie L. Veal
A case study of the conflicts experienced by staff nurses in a medical-surgical setting, Susan J. Stocker
A case study of the professionalization of Mexican nursing: 1980 to 2005, Allison Patricia Squires
Access: Effects of a state-funded policy in one community, Betty Smith-Campbell
Accessing prenatal and perinatal health care services: Experiences of first generation Latina immigrants in a rural west Tennessee county, Jacqueline Rosenjack Burchum
Access to care of adults with chronic illness, Constance F. Mullinix
Acculturation and health status among Hispanic American elders, Charles P. Buscemi
