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Dissertations
Predictors of quality of life of elderly end-stage renal disease patients: An application of Roy's Model, Celia G. Hay
Predictors of retention and passing National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses, Nancy Susan Elkins
Predictors of role identity and role attainment in mothers of premature infants, Mary O'Pray
Predictors of unprotected sex for teens at pregnancy testing, Mary Margaret Aruda
Preferences for information and self-care, stress and coping with outpatient surgery: A descriptive correlational study, Linda Marie Caldwell
Preferred instructional methods of millennial nursing students: A qualitative study, Brooke McAtee
Prenatal breastfeeding education: An intervention for pregnant immigrant Hispanic women, Jane W. Schlickau
Prenatal yoga practice in late pregnancy and patterning of change in optimism, power, and well-being, Pamela J. Reis
Preparation of clinical nurse educators using simulation: Developing competencies in providing feedback, Julie S. Fitzwater
Preparing nursing students to respond to disasters: Faculty perspectives, Melissa Jayne Freshwater
Preschoolers' judgments of nurses and nursing activities, Roxanne K. Hamilton
Prescribing competencies for autonomous APRN prescriptive authority: What do nurse prescribers need to know?, Tracy A. Klein
Presence in nursing practice: A critical hermeneutic analysis, Alicia L. Bright
Preserving the embodied self: The meaning of technology for people with chronic renal failure, Lynn M. Nagle
Pressure ulcers and prevention among pediatric patients and factors associated with their occurrence in acute care hospitals, Ivy J. Razmus
Prevalence of abuse and risk factors of homicide in elder women, Jean Dowling Dols
Primary care access and use among homeless persons, Kirsten A. Dickins
Primary prevention emphasis and self-reported health behaviors of nursing students, Ronda E. Yoder
Problem behaviors in the male partners of adolescent mothers: A comparison of age-discrepant and age-consistent relationships, Julie K. Baylor
Processes underlying children's responses to witnessing physical aggression in their families, Judee E. Onyskiw
Processes used by nursing faculty when working with underperforming students in the clinical area: A theoretical model derived from grounded theory, Marianne Craven
Professional identity of Japanese nurses: Bonding into nursing, Misuzu F. Gregg
Professional values of licensed practical nurses and time post initial licensure: A correlational study, Linda A. Otero
