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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Cultural discovery in nursing practice: The experience of nurses who work with Vietnamese, Evelyn Labun
Deliberate practice using simulation to improve clinical competency and confidence, Sharon Lacue
Learned resourcefulness, cognitive processes, and adaptive functioning in depressed adults, Chien Yu Lai
Examining the role of social context in nurses' pain assessment practice with postoperative clients, Laurie M. Lauzon Clabo
Risk perception, safe work behavior, and work-related musculoskeletal disorders among critical care nurses, Soo Jeong Lee
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
Providing hospice care for children: An organizational study, Lisa C. Lindley
The process of nursing partnership in family health, Merian C. Litchfield
Environmental and personal predictors of professional behaviors among baccalaureate nursing students, Kae Rivers Livsey
Examining health-related decision making patterns of African Americans with coronary heart disease: A hermeneutic phenomenological study, Tiffany Ann Love
The meaning, process, and consequences of nurse caring as perceived by spinal cord injured individuals during rehabilitation, Kathleen T. Lucke
The process of adoptive parenting, Julie A. Luetschwager
Dysmenorrhea and related factors in Taiwanese adolescent girls, I-Chen Lu
The effectiveness of a promotora-led intervention for Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes, Josefina Lujan
Theory, reality, survival: An organizational analysis of a nurse-managed neighborhood health center, Sally P. Lundeen
Ethical values and resolution of ethical value conflicts by nurse educators, Carolyn Z. Lyndaker
The impact of nurse to nurse mentoring in leadership skills development - RNMentor2Mentor, Linda Macera-DiClemente and Connie M. Smith
The quest for treatment: Cancer patients' experience of Phase I clinical trials, Carol H. Mack
Partners together in health: Health-related quality of life outcomes in coronary artery bypass patients and partners, Lynda C. Macken
The social organization of women's preterm labour experiences, Karen Ann MacKinnon
Nursing interventions to reduce unilateral neglect in right hemisphere stroke patients, Sawsan M. Majali
Nurses' spiritual care practices: Assessment type, frequency, and correlates, Iris Mamier
Investigations into economic class and retention rates of nursing students, Angela D. Martindale
