Florida Atlantic University
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Doctoral Dissertations
2015
Laurie Abbott
The Effect of a Culturally Relevant Cardiovascular Health Promotion Program on Rural African Americans
Christie Bailey
The Influence of Gardens on Resilience in Older Adults Living in a Continuing Care Community
Karen Grimley
Identifying Descriptions of Quality Nursing Care Shared by Nurse and Patient in the Acute Care Hospital Setting
Mary Jorda
The Meaning of School Body Mass Index (BMI) Screening and Referral to the Parents/Guardians of First, Third and Sixth Grade Students
Susan Charlotte Ladd
ZAFÈ NEG SE MISTÈ: A Grounded Theory Study of End-of-Life Decision Making for Haitian American Families in South Florida
Jacqueline Marshall
Effect of a Spiritually-Guided Intervention on Breast Self-Care Attitudes in Afro-Caribbean Women
Linda Payne
The Experience of Nurses Caring for Women with Drug or Alcohol Problems in the General Hospital
Robin Powers
Recognizing Functional Decline in Persons with MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment)
Mary Ellen Wright
Sources of Informational Social Support for Mothers of Infants Residing in the Western North Carolina Appalachian Region
2014
Shelley Greif
Challenges Faced by Parents Caring for Their Child After Traumatic Brain Injury
Elizabeth Kinchen
Development and Testing of an Instrument to Measure Holistic Attributes of Nurse Practitioner Care
Rebecca Koszalinski
Evaluation of Speak for Myself © With Patients Who are Voiceless
Duangporn Piyakong
The Effect of Engagement Interventions on Uncertainty and Coping of Thai Family Members of Patients in Coma
Angela Prestia
Chief Nursing Officer Sustainment in the Continued Practice of Nursing Leadership
Kelly White
Transition Experiences of the Chronically Ill Adolescent
2013
Kathryn Arnold
The Clinical Scholar Model: A Strategy to Bridge the Theory-Practice Gap
Jeanne Gottlieb
Suffering in the Midst of Technology: The Lived Experience of an Abnormal Prenatal Ultrasound
Mary Brigid Martin
Perceived Discrimination of Muslims in Health Care in the United States
Eugenia Millender
Cumulative Trauma among Adult Mayas Living in Southeast Florida
Lawren Mundy
Health Care Experience of Individuals Who Self-Identify as Sex Addicts
Francesca Onyejuruwa
Impact of an Educational Intervention on Nurses’ Knowledge and Caring Behavior for Late Preterm Infants
Nohemi Sadule-Rios
Older Hispanics’ Explanatory Model of Depression
Lisa Kirk Wiese
Development and Testing of a Measure of Alzheimer’s Disease in a Rural Appalachian Community
2012
Bridgette Johnson
The Impact of Satisfaction with Care and Empowerment on Glycemic Control among Older African American Adults with Diabetes
2011
Terry L. Eggenberger
Holding the Frontline: The Experience of Being a Charge Nurse in an Acute Care Setting
Louise Lucas
The Lived Experience of Decision-making for Older Adults who had an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Inserted
Carlo Guy Parker
Decision-Making Models Utilized by Nurses to Activate Rapid Response Teams
Bonnie Laurie Pope
Maternal Health Policy: Nursing’s Legacy and the Social Security Act of 1935
Lisa Marie Wands
Health of Veterans Home from War
2010
Barbara K. Dahlen
Giving Voice to Historical Trauma through Storytelling: The Impact of Boarding School Experience on American Indians
Natalie L. Murphy
The Lived Experience of Mothers as They Sought Health Care for Their Internationally Adopted Children
Barbara Colleen Sorbello
Clinical Nurse Leader Stories: A Phenomenological Study about the Meaning of Leadership at the Bedside
2009
Dorothy J. Dunn
What Keeps Nurses in Nursing: A Heideggerian Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
Kim Denice Jolly
Immigrant Status, Substance Abuse and Sexual Risk
Carole Anne Martin Kain
Muddling Through: How Young Caregivers Manage Changing Complexities
Waraporn Kongsuwan
Thai Nurses’ Lived Experience of Caring for Persons Who Had a Peaceful Death in Intensive Care Units
Jo Anne Stecher
The Lived Experiences of the Spouses of Transplant Recipients
Rosa Maria Sternberg
Latinas Experiencing Transnational Motherhood
2008
Susan Dyess
Living in Abundance: The Experience of Living with Chronic Illness for Adults Affiliated with a Community of Faith with Access to a Faith Community Nurse.
Rhonda Goodman Lesniak
The Lived Experience of Adolescent Females who Self-Injure by Cutting.
2007
Patricia Dittman
Lived Experience of Male Nurses in the Intervention Project for Nurses
Laureen Fleck
The Effect of Nurse-Guided Co-Created Weight Loss Plans for Pre-Menopausal Women Diagnosed with Metabolic Syndrome
Joy Longo
The Relationship of Horizontal Violence, Oppressed Group Behavior, and Job Satisfaction on Intent to Leave a Nursing Position and the Nursing Profession
Marcella M. Rutherford
More than Good, Kind Angels: The Daughters of Charity’s Relationship to Valuation, Mission and Money, 1916 to 1994
Mark Christopher Saslo
Ethnography of Adherence to Plans of Care in the HIV Positive Patient
2006
Cynthia Blum
Developing an Undergraduate Preceptor Model of Practice Education: Participatory Action Research
Cynthia J. Brown
Caring for Self for Nursing Leaders: Climbing to the Mountain Peak
Judith Czerenda
The Meaning of the Lived World of Older Indian Widows and their Health Experiences
Judith Drumm
The Student’s Experience of Learning Caring in a College of Nursing Based in a Caring Philosophy
Debra Hain
Cognition and Adherence of Older Adults Undergoing Hemodialysis
Julie Hilsenbeck
Unveiling the Mystery of Covenantal Trust: The Theory of the Social Process between the Nurse Manager and the Chief Nursing Officer
Nancy Smith
Nutrire: Nourish, Nurturing, Nursing: A Material Culture Analysis of Infant/Invalid Feeders
2005
Florence Keane
A Comparison of the Miami Naming Test and the Boston Naming Test with an Afro-Caribbean Population
Bernadette Lange
The Clarity-Parity Community Nursing Practice Framework: A Critical Ethnonursing Study of Women in Recovery from Chemical Dependence and their Return to the Community
Pamela Brinker Lester
Mothers’ Accuracy in Identifying their Four-Year-Old Children’s Weight Status Using the Lester Shape Body Models Versus CDC Graphs
Barbara Phillips
Urinary Incontinence 1850-1906: a Historiography
Todd Swinderman
The Magnetic Appeal of Nurse Informaticians: Caring Attractor for Emergence
Note: Bound copies of many master’s theses and doctoral dissertations, from 1990 to 2009, are shelved in the Archives of Caring in Nursing collection. Copies may be viewed on-site by appointment; contact to request access.