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Dissertations
Stigmatization experiences of HIV infected women: A focused ethnography, Marsha J. Bennett
Stories, ethics and the interpretation of meaning: Bearing witness to mothers' stories of their neonatal intensive care unit experience, Angela C. Blackburn
Strategies for the improvement of healthcare through simulation, Roger C. Lankheet
Stress and coping in older women with osteoarthritis: A qualitative study, Charlene M. Romer
Stress and coping of caregivers to individuals with dementia, Karen Annette Jensen
Stress, anxiety, and depression: Role of campus connectedness, social support, and coping among Nepalese nursing students, Priscilla Samson
Stress, bullying, cortisol, and depressive symptoms in 9th grade adolescents, Susan G. Williams
Stressors, academic performance, and learned resourcefulness in baccalaureate nursing students, Anne-Marie Goff
Stroke survivors' and informal caregivers' perceptions of depressive symptoms after stroke: A mixed-methods sequential explanatory study, Tanya L. Breckenridge-Trotter
Structural and psychological empowerment of community/public health nurses, Linda C. Royer
Student engagement in nursing school: A secondary analysis of the National Survey of Student Engagement data, Karen Zafuta Johnson
Student experiences with faculty mentorship during the DNP final project, Lori Prol
Student-faculty trust and its relationship with student success in pre-licensure BSN nursing education, John E. Scarbrough
Student nurse perspectives on the impact of longitudinal home visits to people with dementia and their carers, Wendy J. Grosvenor
Student nurses' perception of preceptors' authentic leadership effect on self-efficacy, Venise D. Bryan
Student nurses' senior practicum experience and its role in transition to practice, Trilla A. Mays
Student nursing skill achievement through self-regulated learning, Cynthia DeLanie
Student perceptions of teaching and learning quality in a nursing skills lab, Jill F. Daly
Students' attitudes toward computers at the College of Nursing at King Saud University (KSU), Osama A. Samarkandi
Studies on communication exchange in healthcare in Flanders, Belgium, Peter Vermeir
Substance use and HIV among young Black men who have sex with men (MSM), Raymond Austin Nation
Subsyndromal delirium and postoperative pain in older adults, Dawn Lujean Denny
Suffering and spiritual transformation in patients with heart failure, Melissa Dyo
Supporting hope in midlife cancer survivors: Intervention workshop, Clare Marie Butt
Surviving on the margin of a profession: Experiences of Black nurses, Josephine Bassey Etowa