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How Stress And Coping In Nursing Affect Burnout In The Transition To Practice: A Literature Review And Proposed Study, Natalie Elizabeth Meade

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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Medical Sound Simuvest, Luke Stanley, Daniel Woods, Megan Hines, Chris Cochran

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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A Phenomenological Study Of Uninsured Individuals’ Primary Healthcare Experiences At Nurse-Managed Clinics In Mississippi, Linda Hale Banks

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this phenomenological research study is to describe the lived experience of uninsured individuals accessing and receiving healthcare at nurse-led primary care clinics. This study is grounded in the existential phenomenological philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and guided by research procedures developed by Thomas and Pollio (2002). The study answers the question: What is the meaning of the patient’s perception of their lived healthcare experience as an uninsured individual? The research design methodology included a purposeful, convenience sample to recruit participants. Nine participants comprising five women and four men, ranging in age from 34 to 65, were interviewed to elicit …

The Lived Experience Of Nurses Caring For Patients Diagnosed With Infective Endocarditis Who Use Or Have Used Intravenous Drugs In Appalachia: A Phenomenological Study, Kendrea Lea Todt

Doctoral Dissertations

Infective endocarditis (IE) from intravenous drug use (IVDU) is an increasing problem in Appalachia. IE is an infection of the inner lining of the heart which may be contracted from body piercing, tattooing, or tooth brushing. In the person who uses IV drugs, the infection is generally needle borne. The Appalachian Region has been profoundly affected by the opioid crisis. Hospitalizations of Appalachians diagnosed with IE from IVDU are rising. Appalachians operate from a strong moral compass, gauging behavior as right or wrong. In the literature, health care provider attitudes towards patients with substance use disorder (SUD) are pejoratively negative, …

Relationship Between Social Media Use And Sleep Quality Of Undergraduate Nursing Students At A Southeastern University, Stephen B. Nowell, Kathleen Thompson

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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Attitudes And Beliefs Of Nursing Student Towards Patients With Eating Disorders Before And After Participating In A Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Course, Kayla N Hindle

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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A Grounded Theory Inquiry Into Crying In Women Dealing With The Emotional Stress Of Personal Crisis, Mary Bess Griffith

Doctoral Dissertations

The belief that crying leads to healing is so widely held and of such longstanding that many healthcare professionals—including nurses, physicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists—accept it as fact even though there is little substantiating scientific evidence. Crying is commonly believed to be an essential factor in restoring mind-body equilibrium after physical and/or emotional trauma has been experienced. If, as has been hypothesized by many scientists and healthcare practitioners, emotional crying is a biopsychosocial healing modality, then specifics of its therapeutic praxis, including limitations and ambiguities, should be incorporated into nursing education and practice. In this grounded theory study, the meaning and …

Examining The Relationships Between Gratitude And Readiness For Self-Directed Learning In Undergraduate Nursing Students, Kellee Renee Vess

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between gratitude and readiness for self-directed learning among nursing students enrolled in a four-year baccalaureate nursing program. For this study a sample of 59 nursing students were selected from a four-year baccalaureate nursing program, situated in a private, faith-based college in the Southeast United States. During data collection, participants were asked to complete the Gratitude 6-item questionnaire [GQ-], the 40-item Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale for Nursing Education [SDLRS-NE], and two demographic questions (i.e., age and class rank). Using both parametric and nonparametric statistics, this study examined eight research questions, and …

Newly Licensed Registered Nurses' Experiences With Clinical Simulation, Carrie Ann Bailey

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to understand how new graduate nurses perceive the value of simulation in making the transition into professional practice. This study will use a descriptive qualitative approach with a sample of first year nurses. Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model serves as this study’s conceptual framework. For the current study, the sample consisted of 10 newly graduated, female nurses with less than one year of experience working in the hospital setting were interviewed. Data analysis included interviews and transcription by the researcher. Finally, participants were asked about themes to increase rigor. Four themes emerged from this research: …

Exploring Perceptions Of Staff Registered Nurse Preceptors For Undergraduate, Pre-Licensure Nursing Students, Katherine C. Hall

Doctoral Dissertations

Staff nurses are increasingly called upon to accept more responsibilities and roles in addition to provider of patient care, including that of preceptor. Aside from dealing with demands of high acuity patients, working long hours with inadequate staffing, and carrying heavy workloads, nurses may view teaching and supervising students as an additional burden, time-consuming, and not part of their role. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore staff nurse experiences as preceptors to undergraduate, pre-licensure nursing students. Emphasis was placed on exploring RN’s perceptions of the role, specifically the preparation for, support in, and understanding of what the role …

Using Predictive And Descriptive Models To Improve Nurse Staff Planning And Scheduling, Kelcee Storme Ramsey

Masters Theses

The healthcare industry has recently been given an additional set of guidelines called the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The guidelines (or measurements) will be utilized to assess each hospital compared with other hospitals of similar size, and based on score reimbursed for Medicare payments accordingly. An important measurement in these guidelines pertains to patient satisfaction; therefore, increasing patient satisfaction is an important goal for hospitals. To accomplish this goal, many hospitals are re-evaluating their nurse staffing procedures to try to match patient demand with nurse availability.

Using predictive modeling with optimization, hospital administrators can develop/improve their plans for the future. …

Living With The Choice: A Grounded Theory Of Iraqi Refugee Resettlement To The U.S., Lisa Ann Davenport

Doctoral Dissertations

Though the United States has become a place of increasing resettlement for refugees, particularly Iraqi refugees who have been forced to flee their homeland due to violence, persecution and civil unrest, little is known about Iraqi refugee resettlement in the United States, or the way in which resettlement impacts health and adjustment. A grounded theory study was conducted to develop a substantive theory of Iraqi refugee resettlement. Participants in the qualitative study included 29 Iraqi refugees and 2 community partners who participated in face-to face interviews. Data analysis and interpretation revealed fundamental concepts related to Iraqi refugee resettlement. Results of …

Examining The Effects Of A High School Healthcare Summer Immersion Program, Jenny M. Holcombe Curry

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of the current study was to assess the effectiveness of the DREAMWork (Diversity Recruitment and Education to Advance Minorities in the nursing Workforce) summer high school program within the context of the substantial current and anticipated nursing shortage in the United States (Buerhaus, 2002). Previous research has shown that creating positive perceptions of nursing through programs like DREAMWork can lead to an increase in student desire to pursue a career in nursing (Cohen, Palumbo, Rambur, & Mongeon, 2004; Tomey, Schwier, Marticke, & May, 1996). More specifically, this study was interested in …

Potential Effects Of Institutional Repositories On Nursing Research Dissemination, Sarah Jane Mcclung

Masters Theses

Institutional repositories (IRs) might be important tools for nursing faculty to utilize as they have the potential to improve research dissemination on a timely basis to the nursing community at large. This topic is worth investigating because the field of nursing has been struggling for many decades to facilitate the relationship between theory and methods by transferring the knowledge gained from nursing research to the approaches used in nursing practice. The recent focus on evidence-based practice in nursing education is proof of the field’s attempts at shrinking the information gap between nurse researcher and nurse clinician. Methods for dissemination have …

Self-Transcendence And Spiritual Well-Being In Participants Of Short-Term, Faith-Based, Foreign, Health Care Missions, Elizabeth Ann Fiske

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to investigate the presence and possible relationship of self-transcendence and spiritual well-being in persons who have completed at least one short-term, foreign, health care mission (SFHCM). There is a paucity of literature related to SFHCM; however, these trips are becoming increasingly commonplace. In the anecdotal literature, SFHCM are often described as life changing. The descriptions of this growth experience in the literature are quite similar to the concept of self-transcendence as defined in the nursing literature. Reed's (2003) middle range theory of self-transcendence was used as the theoretical framework for this study. The major …

Into The Unknown: Military Nurses' Experiences In Disaster Response, Felecia Marie Rivers

Doctoral Dissertations

Frequently, military nurses are among the first responders to render aid following disaster events. Research has been completed regarding military nurses' experiences in combat, but little has been done to examine nurses' perspectives on their disaster response. The purpose of the study was to understand military nurses' experience of responding to disaster(s), with "disaster" defined as any non-combat mission-humanitarian relief, or response to a natural or human-made event-outside of warfare. A phenomenological approach to interviewing 23 military nurses was employed. Using a purposive, snowballing technique, single face-to-face interviews were conducted. Five figural polar themes of Nature of War v. Nature …