Doctoral Papers
Doctoral Papers Collection Details
This collection contains doctoral papers and dissertations that have been completed and defended in partial fulfillment for the doctoral degree received. These items have not gone through the Sigma Repository’s peer-review process, but have been accepted by the indicated university or college in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the specified degree.
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The lived experience of nurse practitioners in independent practice
Background: Changes in the health care environment have increased the demand for primary care providers and increased opportunities for independent practice. Continued opposition to independent practice has heralded Nurse ... -
Invisible influence: Exploring nurses' interactions with industry in clinical practice
Purpose: The purpose of this multi-sited, ethnographic study was to explore whether and how registered nurses (RNs) interact with medically-related industry in clinical practice. Background: Recently passed legislation ... -
The effect of consistent operating room nursing teams on operating room nurses' perceptions of job stress, group cohesion, conflict, job satisfaction and anticipated turnover
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among the type of OR assignment and OR nurses' perceptions of job stress, group cohesion, interpersonal conflict, job satisfaction and anticipated turnover. The ... -
The influence of nurse manager leadership style factors on the perception of staff nurse structural empowerment, work engagement, and intent to stay
Healthcare is facing many challenges which impact all practice settings. Both nurse managers and staff nurses play critical roles in overcoming the challenges faced in healthcare today. Staff nurses are intimately involved ... -
Violation of personal and professional nursing values: Six case studies of nurses who have left nursing
Background: Registered Nurses (RNs) comprise the largest group of health care providers in the US. The shortage of RNs is expected to worsen to 29% by 2020. Many nurses depart practice prior to retirement. Previous research ... -
Giving up their place in the walls: The lived experience of community college nursing faculty who leave the profession of teaching
Community college nursing faculty members are essential to the continuation and growth of the profession of nursing. Every loss of a nursing faculty member represents an even greater loss to the practice of nursing within ... -
Senior nursing students' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived competency about older adults
Background: Nurses entering the workforce may have limited education in gerontological nursing. Therefore, many nurses are unprepared to provide quality care to older adults. An unprepared nursing workforce could negatively ... -
Coping strategies, social support, and self-care among young women with pelvic inflammatory disease
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), a spectrum of inflammatory disorders of the female upper genital tract, is a serious complication of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) that may lead to chronic pelvic pain, ectopic ... -
The experiences of cancer nurses' existential care in response to the threat of patients' mortality within the culture of care
Patients are living longer with many types of cancer; however, often they face sudden possibilities of dying, not only due to their advancing illness but due to complications of their treatment. Consequently, they can ... -
The meaning of informal BMT caregiving
Objectives. The aims of this qualitative descriptive exploratory study were to (1) describe informal caregiver commitment in informal caregiving; (2) describe caregiver expectations in informal caregiving; (3) describe ... -
Communication of prognostic information in an ICU at end of life: Practices among and between nurses, physicians and family members
Design. Ethnographic study analyzing prognostic communication at end of life in ICU between/among family members of patients at high risk for death and critical care physicians and nurses. Study questions. (1) What are ... -
The meaning of immigrant women's experience of childbirth for the first time in a United States hospital
The increasing population of immigrants in the United States is largely comprised of immigrant women, whose first contact with the health care system is often to seek maternity care. The literature suggests that immigrant ... -
The lived experience of Latina women giving birth in the United States
As the Latino community continues to grow in the United States, it is essential that cultural considerations be addressed, particularly in health care. Cultural assessment is of the utmost importance when trying to understand ... -
Perceptions toward a restraint-free practice: A case study
The importance of reducing the use of psychiatric-mental health mechanical restraints has been the focus of clinical nursing practice. A hospital with two psychiatric-mental health units has demonstrated a sustained success ... -
Psychological empowerment and job crafting among registered nurses working in public health in Ontario, Canada
In this study, the relationship between psychological empowerment (PE), an intangible sense of feeling powerful from within, and job crafting (JC), proactively adjusting one’s job by changing its core job characteristics, ... -
Newly graduated registered nurses' perceptions about and use of principles of palliative care in acute care settings: An interpretive phenomenology study
The terms serious or life-threatening illness now included in current palliative care literature indicate the broadened scope of palliative care. However, the change in defining terminology has not consistently translated ... -
Impact of water, hygiene and sanitation on medication adherence intention among HIV positive women enrolled in Option B+ treatment regimen in Zambia
Background: Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV is a major problem in sub-Saharan Africa despite increasing availability of free and subsidized antiretroviral treatment (ART); MTCT can be significantly reduced ... -
Climate control: Does caring really matter?
In an attempt to address healthcare disparities, nursing programs have been charged with increasing success rates of minority students to increase diversity within the profession. Despite an upsurge in enrollment numbers ... -
Health related quality of life in adolescent and young adult retinoblastoma survivors
Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common malignant intraocular tumor occurring in childhood. While survival rates in the United States (U.S.) are high, children are left with the impact of treatment including enucleation, ... -
Weaving empathy into simulation pedagogy: Nursing simulation faculty barriers and strategies to cultivating empathy in nursing simulation pedagogy
The purpose of this interpretive phenomenological study was to develop a deeper understanding of the strategies and barriers to weaving empathy into simulation pedagogy so stakeholders and educators may be able to develop ...
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