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Dissertations
The relationships among job satisfaction, length of employment, and mentoring of nursing faculty, Zelda Suzan
The relationships among self-regulation, cognitive load, decision support, and decision making readiness in surrogate decision makers for the critically ill, Grant Alan Pignatiello
The relationships among social support from staff in the clinical learning environment and student perceptions of stress and self-esteem, Karen A. Montalto
The relationships among social support, spiritual well-being, commitment and health-promoting behaviors in older adults, Clara S. Boland
The relationships among stress, burden, and health status in rural caregivers, Julie T. Sanford
The relationships among unit culture, work stress, compassion fatigue and sense of wellbeing in operating room nurses in level one or two trauma centers, Evelyn A. Dogbey
The relationships between and among parental perceptions of family-centered care, parental beliefs, and parental stress in the pediatric intensive care unit, Kelly Keefe-Marcoux
The relationships between health literacy, self-efficacy and readiness for change to health promotion behaviors in urban Black women, Millie A. Hepburn
The relationships between parenting stress, growth, and development in infants with congenital heart defects during the first six months of life, Danica F. Sumpter
The relationships between work-family conflict, job satisfaction and psychological well-being among African American nurses, Trina L. Gipson-Jones
The relationships of nurses' critical thinking ability and patients' self-disclosure to accuracy in nursing assessment of depression in elderly medical patients, Elizabeth W. Gonzalez
The resilient study: A retrospective, descriptive correlational investigation of rate and correlates of oral endocrine therapy adherence in older women with breast cancer, Sunny Yoo Ruggeri
The risks of methemoglobinemia with the use of two antimicrobials in low birth weight infants, Denise J. Poirier Maguire
The role of cognitive and emotional representations in cancer symptom management, Heidi Scharf Donovan
The role of courage in the experience of patients with diabetes complications, Patricia Donohue-Porter
The role of professional nursing in the origin of the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996 from a feminist perspective, 1981-1996, Jan-Louise Leonard
The role of the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum in modulating nociception, Judith Ann Paice
The role of the patient liaison nurse in the ambulatory care context of a Middle Eastern teaching hospital: A practice model, Mustafa Morris E. Bodrick
The role of the registered nurse working in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, Marissa D. Abram
The role social capital plays in the psychological capital of registered nurses experiencing second victim syndrome, Teresa-Lynn Hinkley
The role transition characteristics of new registered nurses: A study of work environment influences and individual traits, Martin S. Manno
The shortage of expert nephrology nurses and patient quality care indicators a quantitative cross-sectional study, Karen J. Gaietto
The significance of continuing education on the intention of advanced practice registered nurses to report child maltreatment, Adaorah N. U. Azotam