COMPLETED PHD DISSERTATIONS

• Kathleen Williams: An Examination of the Relationship of Mandated Reporting to Pediatric Up-to-Date Immunization Status
• Marcia Gamaly: Comparing the effectiveness of self-directed and interactive online educational interventions to reduce obesity bias in
  nurses in the hospital setting
• Carol Devlin: The Relationship Between Preoperative Smoking Status and Postoperative Surgical Site Infections: A Secondary Analysis of the American College of Surgeons’ 2019 National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Data
• Kimberly Hampton: Survey of Baccalaureate Nursing Faculty About Non-Clinical Transition-to-Practice Courses and Their Perceived Effectiveness
• Tanya Carmichael: Effect of an Educational Intervention on Nursing Students’ Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Caring for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People
• Waad Ali: The Influence of Undergraduate Informatics Education on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Use
• Marin Jacobwitz: Predictors of Poor Oral Feeding in Infants with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Following Surgical Intervention with Cardiopulmonary Bypass
• Patricia Griffith: The Effect of Structured Reflection on Diagnostic Reasoning Competency and Accuracy of Nurse Practitioner Students Who Experience Cognitive Bias: A Mixed Methods Experimental Study
• Mary Ann Zimmer: Enhancing Communication Skills of Pre-Licensure Baccalaureate Nursing Students Through the Use of Standardized Patients in Clinical Simulation
• Melissa Bourne: Clinical Nursing Faculty Perceptions about Teaching Pre-Licensure BSN Students to Provide Care for Adults with Developmental Disability in the Clinical Setting

• Melissa Leisen: Exploration of the Learning Experiences of Undergraduate Nursing Students in Relation to the Care of Children with Special Health Care Needs in Home-Based Respite Care
• Jodi Erickson: How Older Adults Perceive the Terminology “Allow Natural Death”: A Qualitative Dissertation
• Meg Kloster: Measuring Knowledge and Behavior after an Educational Program on Air Pollution as a Health Risk Reduction Strategy
• Emily Sheff: Factors Associated with Work Engagement among Doctorally Prepared Nursing Faculty
• Joseph Vena: The Lived Experience of Young Adults with Lymphoma During Acute Survivorship
• Megan M. Walsh: The Emotional Experience of Women with Multiple Sclerosis in the Postpartum Period
• Lyn Starrs-Zorn: The Lived Experience of Civilian, Female Spouse Caregivers of Community-Dwelling U.S. Veterans Who Sustained Polytrauma Injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan

• Heiddy DiGregorio: Organizational Skill Development Using Simultaneous Multiple Patient Simulation
• Laura Klenke-Borgmann: The Effect of Interprofessional Simulations in the Classroom on Pre-Licensure, Baccalaureate Nursing Students’ Clinical Judgment Development
• Sister Jackline Mayaka: Risk Factors Associated with Low-Birth-Weight Infants Among HIV-Positive Women and Related Outcomes of HIV-Exposed Low Birth Weight Infants at 18 Months Follow-up in Western Kenya
• Claire McKinley-Yoder: The Relationships Among Individual and School Characteristics and Long-Term Educational Outcomes for Students with Disabilities
• Ginger Schroers: Interruptions During Simulated Medication Administration: An Examination of Errors and Interruption Management Strategies
• Caitlin Yeager: The Role of Nurses in Surveillance of New and Emerging
  Infectious Disease to Enhance Global Health Security: A Delphi Study
• Cynthia Hambach: Using Standardized Patients in Simulated Learning Experiences to Develop Clinical Judgment and Clinical Competence of Sophomore Baccalaureate Nursing Students in a Foundations in Nursing Course

• Amal Alqahtani: Workplace Incivility and Work Ethic Across Three
  Generations of Saudi Nurses
• Zainab Al-Maqbali: Pre-gestational Diabetes Mellitus (Type 1 & Type 2), Gestational-Diabetes, and Pre-eclampsia with Preterm Birth Among Omani Women
• Susan Moyer: Fruit and Vegetable Intake of Young Adult Millennials
• Serah Nthenge: Perinatal Experiences of Women with Physical Disabilities
• Christine Pariseault: Nurse Practitioners Experiences of Polypharmacy in
  Older Adults in the Primary Care Setting
• Tara Sacco: The Relationship of the Work Environment to Compassion
  Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue in Critical Care Nurses  
• Mia Waldron: Relationship of Parental Health Literacy (PHL) and Perceptions of Home Discharge Readiness in NICU Parents of Black Preterm Infants 

• Lisa Aiello: Assessment of Genomic Knowledge among Nurses in an Online RN to BSN Completion Program
• Zaina Al Harmali: Nurse characteristics and perceptions about safety and error reporting in Omani hospitals
• Abdullah I. Al Salmi: Self-Management Behaviors & Quality of Life of Patents with Sickle Cell Disease
• Al Cadavero: Nurse Graduates’ Perceived Educational Needs after Experiencing the Death of a Patient
• Mandy Kirkpatrick: Development of Palliative Care Competence in Nursing Students Using Simulation
• Brittany Koons: Factors Related to Travel for Transplantation Among U.S. Kidney Transplant Candidates
• Michelle McKay: The Relationship of Frailty, Fear of Falling, and Depression with the Risk for Falls and Health-Related Quality of Life in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
• Susan Myers: Postpartum Nurses’ Perceptions of Identifying and Providing Care for Mothers at Risk for Postpartum Depression
• Jennie Ryan: Parents’ Experience Using Medical Marijuana
• Cathy Sargent: The examination of nursing students’ attitudes towards chronic pain in the older adult.

• Saira Al-Bulushi: A Pilot Study of Standardized Patient Simulation Teaching Strategies and Instruments to Assess Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude of Primary Care Nurses in Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
• Khamis Al-Mamari: Omani Nurses’ Attitudes Towards Clients with Mental Illness in General and Psychiatric Hospitals in Oman
• Faith Atte: Factors Related to Caregiver Burden in Family Members of Military Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury
• Adaorah Azotam: The Intention of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to Report Child Maltreatment
• Susan Birkhoff: Examining the Usability and Acceptability of a Patient-Centered Mobile Health Tracking App for Patients Undergoing Radiation Therapy for Cancer Treatment
• Deborah Byrne: Evaluating the Level of Cultural Competence in Undergraduate Nursing Students Using Standardized Patients in Simulation
• Michael Conti: A Descriptive Study Exploring the Perceptions of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists about Collaboration with Physician Anesthesiologists
• Becky Coyle-Mueller: Family Nurse Practitioners’ Use of mHealth Apps for Health Promotion with Patients
• Patricia Gellasch: The Developmental Screening Behaviors, Skills, Facilitators and Constraints of Family Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care
• Stacy Hohenleitner: New Nursing Graduates’ Perceptions of Support
• Amanda Jenkinson: The Relationships Among Inner Strength, Depression, and Time Since Diagnosis to Quality of Life and Health Promoting Behaviors in Female Cancer Survivors
• Sue Lynch: The Lived Experience of Newly Qualified Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) Who Have Transitioned to the Hospital Operating Room Surgical Setting: A Phenomenological Perspective
• Carlene McLaughlin: The Effect of Debriefing with Good Judgment on Nurse Anesthesia Students’ Critical Event Recognition, Response, and Treatment
• Jacquelyn McMillion-Bohler: Nurse Educators’ Perceptions of the Characteristics and Behaviors of Master Teachers in Nursing
• Kathleen Monforto: A Comparison of Outcomes in Patients with Common Pediatric Diagnoses Admitted on Weekends to Those Admitted on Weekdays
• Hanan Saca-Hazboun: Knowledge and Health Beliefs about Breast Cancer Screening among Rural Palestinian Women: A Pilot Study
• Jenna Thate: Leveraging Documentation in the Electronic Health Record to Support Interprofessional Communication: A Delphi Study 
• Susan Vacca: Patient Delivered and Expedited Partner Therapy for Chlamydia Trachomatis among Adolescent Females Using School Based Health Centers 

• Eilleen Feehan Choi: Development and Analysis of the Sodium Knowledge and Skills Index for Heart Failure (SKASI-HF)
• Katie Hooven: Development and Testing of the Collaboration in the Clinical Learning Environment (CCLE) Tool
• Christina Lam: Nurse Faculty Members' Experiences Teaching Chronic Illness Self-Management Concepts: An Exploration Study
• Patricia Ann Oertwich: Emotional Intelligence as a Component of Leadership Development in Traditional Undergraduate BSN Students
• Kelly Reilly: The Use of Simulation in Transformational Leadership Development in the Nurse Manager Role
• Robin Weingarten Wood: Workplace Bullying Between Registered Nurses: Occurrence and Perceived Effects on Work Productivity
• Christina Whitehouse: From Hospital to Home: Aiding in Patient Transitions Through Education for Obese Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

• Lisa Broughton: An Examination of the Relationship among Nurses’ Work Environment, Nurses’ Education Level and Patient Outcomes
• Karen Goldschmidt: Perspective Transformation and Professional Values of Students Enrolled in an Online RN-to-BSN Degree Completion Program
• Jana Goodwin: The Lived Experience of non-English and limited English speaking Hispanic persons associated with a past inpatient hospitalization in the United States: A phenomenological study
• Carey Heck: A Study of Moral Distress in Novice and Experienced Nurses
• Virginia Jones: Perception of Graduates from Online Accelerated Pre-Licensure Second-Degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing Programs on Quality of Educational Experience and Readiness for Clinical Practice
• Danielle Kohler: Assessment of Nurse Faculty’s Acceptance and Intent to Use Social Media Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 Model
• James Mendez: The Role of Perceived Social Support in the Transition to Life after Lung Transplantation
• Maria Van Pelt: The Aftermath of Perioperative Catastrophe: A National Study of Nurse Anesthetists
• Nancy Wise: Nutritional Knowledge, Healthy Eating Behaviors and Personal Self-Efficaciy in Pregnant Adolescents

• Sherry Burrell: Exploring Symptom Clusters and Quality of Life in Individuals Undergoing Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer
• Jaqueline Meyer: Part-time Baccalaureate Clinical Nursing Faculty in U.S. Schools of Nursing: Factors Related to Work Engagement, Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction
• Nada Al Moosa: A Quality Study of Change: Implementing Quality Assurance and Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Profession Education during a Period of Transition
• Raja Jadelhack: Assessment of a Patient Satisfaction Survey and its Relationship to Hospital Sector and Nurses’ Level of Education in One Region in Saudi Arabia
• Amanda Klockars-McMulle: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Somatic Awareness Scale of Women with Spontaneous Preterm Labor

• Majed Alamri: Motivational Factors and Barriers Related to Saudi Arabian Nurses’ Pursuit of a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree
• Hilal Alrahbi: Diabetes Self-Management (DSM) in Omanis with Type-2 Diabetes
• Terri Ares: The Professional Socialization of Students in Clinical Nurse Specialist Programs
• Ann Fronczek: The Lived Experience of the Primary Family Caregiver of a Person with Head and Neck Cancer
• Karen May: Assessing Faculty Knowledge of Disability-Related Law and Providing Academic Accommodation
• JoAnn Platko: Nursing Students’ Beliefs and Attitudes Regarding Pain Management Knowledge Across Educational Levels
• Michele Damas Smith: Utilization of Secondary Preventive Screenings (HIV, Blood Pressure and Cholesterol) Among African-American Men in Comparison to Non-Hispanic Caucasian Men
• Amy Weaver: The Effect of a Model Demonstration During Debriefing on Students’ Clinical Judgment, Self-Confidence, and Satisfaction During a Simulated Learning Experience

• Pennie Sessler Branden: The Nurse as Advocate: A Grounded Theory Perspective
• Margaret Hattori-Uchima: Chuukese Migrant Women in Guam: Perceptions of Barriers to Health Care
• Michelle Kelly: Life After Prematurity:  Special Health Care Needs, Working Memory, and Health-related Quality of Life Among 9- to 11-year old Children Born Prematurely
• Catherine Morse: The Effect of Debriefing with Good Judgment on Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Students' Reflective Ability and Perspective Transformation.
• Lisa Thiemann: Nonsurgical Pain Management Infection Prevention Competencies

• Teresa Conte: Pediatric Oncology Nurses’ Lived Experiences of Loss and Grief
• Anne Fink: Primiparous Puerto Rican Women’s Self-Reports of Postpartum Infant and Self-Care Knowledge Acquisition
• Janet Fogg: The Experience of Parenting for Single, Unpartnered Mothers of Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
• Suzanne Foley: The First Months at Home: The Perceived Needs of an American Sample of Postpartum Women
• Catherine Heilferty: The Balance We Seek:  A Sequential Narrative Analysis of Childhood Cancer Blogs
• Stephanie Jeffers: Nurse Faculty Perceptions of End-of-Life Education in the Clinical Setting:  A Phenomenological Perspective
• Kelly Kuhns: Nursing Faculty Members' Use of Web 2.0 Technology and Perceptions of Importance of Online Faculty Presence
• Jennifer Gunberg Ross: The Effect of Simulation Training on Baccalaureate Nursing Students’ Competency in Performing Intramuscular Injection
• Joanne Schwartz: A Cross-Sectional Study Comparing Graduates of an Accelerated Second-Degree Baccalaureate Nursing Program and Graduates of a Traditional Baccalaureate Nursing Program in Demographics, Nursing Professional Development and Nursing Career Satisfaction
• Jodie Szlachta: The Effect of a Peer-Instruction Model in Nurse Anesthesia Student Learning in the High Fidelity Patient Simulator

• Ruth Crothers: The Development of Organized Continuing Education for Registered Nurses in the United States 1957-1974: Challenge for a Maturing Profession
• Elizabeth M. Romeo: The Predictive Ability of Critical Thinking, Nursing GPA and SAT Scores on First-Time NCLEX-RN® Performance
• Cynthia Rubenstein: Assessing and Improving Child Feeding Practices through "Take Charge of Your Family’s Health"
• Lorraine Rusch: Exploring Clinical Reason and Decision Making in Nursing Students.
• Jennifer Specht: Use of Mentoring to Ease Role Conflict and Role Ambiguity in Neophyte Nursing Faculty.

• Tamara M. Kear: An Investigation of Transformative Learning Experiences during Associate Degree Nursing Education Using Narrative Methods

• Bonnie Baloga-Altieri: Comparison of Staff Nurse Perceptions of Nurse Executive and Nurse Manager Leadership in Magnet and non-Magnet Hospitals
• Catherine Lovecchio: On-Line Alcohol Education: Impact on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of First-Year College Students
• Ruth McDermott-Levy: The Lived Experience of Female Arab-Muslim Nurses Studying in the United States
• Amy McKeever: Female College Students’ Self-Reported Behavioral Change After an Educational Intervention to Reduce Behaviors Associated with Cervical Cancer Risk
• Ann T. Vitale: Nurses’ Lived Experience of Reiki for Self-Care