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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Predictors of distress during the breast diagnostic period, Mariann Mayhew Harding
Let the circle be unbroken: Health of elderly southern Appalachian widows, Sonya Renae Hardin
The nurse's role in gender identification, Melissa Kay Haworth
Assessing the impact of practice transition on advance practice registered nurse's job stress and job satisfaction., Patricia E. Hendrickson
Prenatal care education for women experiencing unplanned pregnancy, Sharon T. Heskitt
Influences of nutritional food label understanding on African American women with obesity, Cynthia Jean Hickman
Nurses' perceptions of collaborative nurse-physician transfer decision-making as a predictor of patient outcomes in a medical intensive care unit, Linda W. Higgins
The spiritual health of oncology patients: A comparison of nurse and patient perceptions, Martha E. Highfield
Food, body weight, and health among adolescents in the digital age: An explorative study from a health promotion perspectives, Christopher Bjorn Holmberg
Comparison of telemedicine to traditional face-to-face care for children with special health care needs: Analysis of cost, caring, and family-centered care, Mary A. Hooshmand
Enduring: The experience of hospitalized elderly patients, Alicia A. Huckstadt
Factors that contribute to anticipated turnover among civilian registered nurses employed in United States Army hospitals, Carol Ann Huebner
Sociocultural, physiologic, and psychologic variables that influence pain in the fibromyalgia patient, Linda Carol Hughes
Self-reported health status and health determinants in low income midlife women aged 40 to 64, Teresa L. Barry Hultquist
Community nursing support for schizophrenic clients, Lora Humphrey-Beebe
Managing personal integrity: A grounded theory of elderly people surviving hospitalization, Cynthia S. Jacelon
The meaning of stressful life experiences as described by nine to eleven-year-old children: A phenomenological study, Gloria Jacobson
Cognitive function in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, Catherine E. Jansen
Self-selected distraction for acute procedural pain in adolescents: An intervention feasibility study, Debra A. Jeffs
Stress and coping of caregivers to individuals with dementia, Karen Annette Jensen
African-American, Hispanic, and Caucasian parents' perception and management of chronically ill children in the home, Patricia D. Joffe
This is my story: Using patient personalization posters to improve nurses' caring behaviors, Kelly S. Johnson
Folklore as a health patterning modality, Mary Augusta Joseph
