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.
The Sigma Repository has received express permission from the authors as copyright holders to post the items in this collection, or the authors have self-submitted. Copyright remains vested with the authors.
If you are interested in submitting to this collection, please visit this page: https://www.sigmarepository.org/etd-information/
The views, research findings, and opinions expressed in these materials are not necessarily held or endorsed by the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, or the Sigma Repository.
Neither the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing or the Sigma Repository guarantees, warrants, or endorses any research or other materials posted in the Henderson Repository, nor do they guarantee any claim made by the authors of such research or materials.
Copyright remains vested with the author(s).
Recent Submissions
-
Living as a dying child: A Gadamerian analysis of the poetry of Mattie J. T. Stepanek
Yearly, approximately 500,000 children live with life-limiting conditions in the United States; 50,000 die. Yet, details regarding children’s days of living as dying are unknown. The aim of this qualitative hermeneutic ... -
Quasi-experimental study with the undergraduate nursing program using simulation learning to reduce medication errors
Medication errors in the nursing practice are not only costly but may harm or kill a patient. The problem addressed in this study is the relationship that exists between the lack of medication administration skills taught ... -
Leading change: Generating cultural responsiveness and competence in nursing
Culturally responsive teachings prepare students to support social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in and beyond the classroom. Rising reports of culturally insensitive care and the reported challenges that ... -
Self-management by adolescents and young adults following a stem cell transplant
Background: Stem cell transplant (SCT) is a major life event that affects not only the adolescents and young adults (AYA) receiving SCT but also the entire family. Patients are prescribed complex care regimens for disease ... -
Temporal sequence and relationships between sleep disorders, mental disorders and traumatic brain injury in deployed military members
U.S. military members are often forward deployed to austere environments where they are exposed to environmental, mental, and physiological stressors that can negatively affect their wellbeing and readiness for service. ... -
Nursing faculty experiences with interactive learning in the associate degree nursing classroom
The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore associate degree nurse faculty perceptions and experiences with the use of interactive learning in their classroom. Interactive learning is an approach to teaching ... -
Compassion fatigue among family caregivers of individuals with end-state heart failure
Background: Compassion fatigue is a phenomenon identified in family caregivers. Heart failure is a public health crisis, affecting over six million people in the United States. The need for family caregivers, and the need ... -
Developing clinical judgment through the implementation of information and communication technology, such as the electronic health record (EHR)
Graduate nurses are expected to enter a technology-rich workforce with an understanding of the electronic health record (EHR) and how it is used to guide patient care. Limited access to EHRs in clinical settings may result ... -
Predicting alcoholism in selected college-age women
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of relationships existing between characteristics of alcoholism in selected college-age women. The relationships between these characteristics and selected demographic ... -
Impact of high-fidelity simulation on confidence level of nursing students in the care of COVID-19 patients
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the education of nursing students across the world. Nursing students were unable to care for patients with COVID-19 at the beginning and potentially throughout nursing school depending on the ... -
Effect of the virtual simulation paired prebriefing-debriefing strategy on nursing students' self-efficacy perceptions and virtual simulation performance in the care of patients experiencing a myocardial infarction
Through the use of virtual simulations (VS) in nursing education, nursing students are exposed to a variety of clinical scenarios that may potentially improve their learning of competencies, increase their self-efficacy, ... -
The impact of the maternal-child clinical learning environment on undergraduate nursing students' self-efficacy
There are currently many challenges to clinical nursing education. The coronavirus 2019 pandemic compounded these challenges when hospitals and government mandates excluded nursing students from traditional in-person ... -
Experiences of food insecure college students during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Background: Food insecurity is defined as having limited ability to obtain or access adequate healthy foods due to a lack of money and other resources, as well as eating unhealthy but inexpensive foods to avoid hunger. ... -
Strategies for the improvement of healthcare through simulation
Background: Medical errors continue to plague the healthcare industry. The annual rates of morbidity are approximately 2.69 million (AHRQ, 2019), while mortality rates exceed 400,000 per annum (Makary & Daniel, 2016). ... -
Persistence factors described by nursing students of African descent: A narrative inquiry
High attrition rates among nursing students of African descent have resulted in a nursing workforce that lacks diversity. Research has largely focused on the obstacles facing students who dropped out of their nursing ... -
Examining the effects of a rater training program on interrater reliability with the Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric
There is high demand for competent graduate nurses as they begin working in healthcare. However, the transition from classroom to professional practice can be difficult. Students and newly licensed entry-level practitioners ... -
Clinical faculty strategies to decrease nursing students' anxiety during clinical practice: A qualitative study
Stress in the clinical learning environment is a psychological and physiological element that affects nursing students’ learning outcomes and health. In clinical settings, nursing students encounter stressors that ... -
Reconstruction of the professional identity: The mature AD nurse after BSN completion
Background: In 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) announced a key initiative to increase the number of registered nurses (RN) at the bedside prepared at the baccalaureate of science in nursing (BSN) level. For decades, ... -
Exploring the relationship between job satisfaction and intent to remain within an organization among millenial nursing faculty
The nursing faculty shortage continues to grow with time with impending detrimental effects. Several factors influence the nursing faculty shortage, including inadequate compensation to clinical areas, low pool of potential ... -
Impact of standardized skin-to-skin protocol in the operating room on breastfeeding rates
Skin-to-skin contact (SSC) is an evidence-based practice with many benefits for mothers and their newborns. The separation of mothers from their babies after cesarean birth delays SSC, which can adversely affect the ...
RSS 1.0