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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Saving face: Expressing and negotiating vulnerability in culturally mis-matched home care nurse-patient dyads, Judith A. Spiers
Experiences of self-reported bullying in minority nurses within acute care hospital workplace settings, Ekta A. Srinivasa
Reclaiming the house: An interpretive study of nurse-family interactions and activities in critical care, Daphne E. Stannard
Competency and work environments among military and civilian perioperative registered nurses: A predictive model, James X. Stobinski
Nurse educators' perceptions about the culture of nursing and how they bring students into that culture: A focused ethnography, Susan M. Strouse
Clinical nursing faculty perceptions of undergraduate baccalaureate nursing student stress in the clinical environment, Catherine A. Stubin
Predictors of early rehospitalization among African American and Caucasian women hospitalized with heart failure, Carolyn B. Sue-Ling
The relationships among job satisfaction, length of employment, and mentoring of nursing faculty, Zelda Suzan
Compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue among pediatric nurses and the impact on patient satisfaction, Maribeth Thornton
Blazing trails for midwifery care: Oral histories of Georgia's pioneer nurse-midwives, Eileen J. B. Thrower
American nursing faculty's experiences with international, ELL, and ESL nursing students in BSN degree programs, Rosalynn Williams Thyssen
The relationship between emotional intelligence, hardiness and job stress among registered nurses, Linda A. Tjiong
Virtual reality simulation's influence on nursing students' anxiety and communication skills with anxious patients, Tanae A. Traister
The lived experience of being a caregiver for a family member dependent upon hemodialysis, Christine Kearney Turner
A cross-sectional study to determine barriers in the educational advancement of the licensed practical nurse to the registered nurse in the state of North Carolina, Douglas M. Turner
Compassion fatigue, resilience, and intent to stay: A quantitative study among nurse educators, Brenda Fay Ulmen
Educational priorities for the future of emergency nursing, Anna Maria Valdez
The relationships among emotion regulation, role stress, and psychological distress in surrogate decision makers of the chronically critically ill patients, Mary Njalian Variath
Policy knowledge communication in nursing, Curtiss J. Vavra
An inquiry into the use of the case method instruction to support nursing students learning transfer from classroom instruction to clinical practice, Kathleen Dorman Wagner
The experiences and expressions of compassion among critical care nurses, Mark S. Walker
Pap smear guideline adherence among non-immigrant Hispanic women of Mexican origin, Dulce M. Warren
The COVID-19 experience: An intensive care nursing perspective, Adrianna L. Watson
The experience of returning from a wilderness expedition, Helen Mueller Wedin
Reversing the script: Six African American women living with HIV/AIDS who are winning a losing battle, Allan Weidenbaum
