Student Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Dissertation: The art of nursing: perceptions, experiences, and interpretation of value among practicing registered nurses and senior bacclaureate nursing students, Anne Bizup
Dissertation: Self-Efficacy: Nurses’ Perceptions of Caring for Patients Living with Diabetes, Victoria Yaros McCue
Capstone: Advancing Disease Knowledge and Health Beliefs on Dyslipidemia by Implementing Patient Education, Edwin S. Ramos
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Dissertation: Examining Factors Associated with Failure to Fail in the Clinical Setting, Dee A. Adkins
Capstone: Identifying Attitudes and Knowledge Deficits Regarding Constipation in the Neurosurgical Patient: A Quality Improvement Project, Denise Trestyn Diaz
Capstone: Decreasing nurses’ stress in the emergency room utilizing mindfulness meditation, Andrea L. Entus
Capstone: Depression Screening in Outpatient Neurology, Lakicia Foster
Capstone: Implementation of an Anxiety Screening and Treatment Protocol in Primary Care, Danielle E. Garcia
Dissertation: The lived experience of novice senior nurse leaders during organizational role transitions, Sharon Kauffman
Dissertation: The Lived Experiences of Thriving Nursing Students, Nicole M. Mentag
Dissertation: Comparison of Pre-Licensure BSN Student Outcomes Between Team-Based and Traditional Learning Methods, Tressa Jane Pedroff
Dissertation: Critical Care Nurses’ Perceptions of Safety Related to Using Complex Medical Devices in Daily Nursing Practice, Violet Rhagnanan-Kramer
Dissertation: Enacting Narrative Pedagogy: The Lived Experience of Prelicensure Baccalaureate Nursing Faculty, Suzanne Wurster
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Capstone: Improved Use of Interact to Decrease 30-Day Readmissions from a Skilled Nursing Facility, Folasade Omobowale Adewunmi
Dissertation: Philippine-Based Filipino Women and Breast Cancer, Elizabeth S. Azutillo
Dissertation: Use of Evidence-Based Test Development in Pre-Licensure Nursing programs: A Descriptive Study of Faculty Beliefs, Attitudes and Values, Richild Berrick
Capstone: An Educational Initiative to Promote Self-Care Practices in Hispanic Adults With Type 2 Diabetes, Geralde S. Bridges
Dissertation: Increasing Self-Efficacy and Bystander CPR Rates: A Train-the-Trainer Program, Amanda Constantino
Capstone: Evaluating the Knowledge and Attitudes of Orthopedic Nurses Regarding the Use of SPHM Algorithms as a Standard of Care, Terry L. Doire
Dissertation: Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Resilience Among Newly Licensed Registered Nurses Transitioning to the Professional Role, Lee Fong-Hong
Capstone: Implementing a Culturally Sensitive Intervention for Haitian Patients Non-Adhering to Hypertensive Medications, Guilaine Gabriel-Percinthe
Dissertation: Injury Prevention Inclusion in Pre-Licensure Baccalaureate Nursing Curricula, Ali Marie Galindo
Dissertation: Factors Affecting the Outcome of the National Council Licensure Examination among Nontraditional Learners from Associate Degree Nursing Programs, Angela Cristina Gaud
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Relationship Between the Grading of Reflective Journals and Student Honesty in Reflective Journal Writing, Jo Anne Genua
Capstone: A Clinical Documentation Practice Improvement to Increase Insurance Reimbursement, Allison R. Hamilton
Dissertation: Handoff Communication Among Senior Nursing Students: A Phenomenological Study, Juanita Hanley-Gumbs
Capstone: Emergency Department Nurses: Post Code Pause, Lynn Alice Hauck
Dissertation: Technostress in Nursing and the Big Five, Paula Hope Jackson
Dissertation: Grit Associated with New Graduate Registered Nurse Initial Competency, Joan Marie Kavanagh
Capstone: Increasing Hospice Nurses’ Knowledge and Improving Attitudes on Pain Assessment in Dementia Patients, Lyn Marie Peugeot
Dissertation: Baccalaureate Nurses’ Experiences and Understanding of Adults Living with Sickle Cell Disease, Shelia Ann Reid
Dissertation: Lived Experience of Post-licensure Nurses in a Perioperative Clinical Rotation, Amy Stahley
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Dissertation: Senior Nursing Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceived Competency about Older Adults, Deborah Denise Brabham
Capstone: Management of hypertension among Haitian immigrants: Using a cultural competency tool to improve practice, Soeurette Bruny
Capstone: Lose to Win: Fighting Obesity in the Workplace, Latoya Dotson
Capstone: Nurse-Driven Protocol to Reduce Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections, Elva Hamilton
Capstone: Reducing the Prevalence of Fall in the Assisted Living Facility Setting, Joan Louis Pierre
Capstone: Reducing the Prevalence of Falls in the Assisted Living Facility Setting, Joan Louis Pierre
Dissertation: Implementation of The Essential Competencies for Evidence-Based Practice in Baccalaureate Nursing Education, Elizabeth Whorley
Capstone: Chinese Immigrants with Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: Nutritional Self-Management Approach, Winnie Manlai Wong
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Capstone: Cancer-Related Fatigue Clinical Guideline and Protocol for Hospitalized Oncology Patients: A Quality Improvement Project, Sulotte Valcin Amilcar
Capstone: Correctional Nurses: Adult Opioid Dependence Referral Process, Christine Hilary Edmund
Capstone: Increasing Providers’ Adherence to Ordering Urine Microalbumin Tests, Florence Fadele
Capstone: Health Care Providers' Knowledge of Childhood Obesity Within the Hispanic Community, Daysi Fardales
Dissertation: Professional Nursing Value Development in Nursing Students Who Participate in International Service Learning, Heather Ferrillo-Diiulio
Dissertation: Factors that Predit Levels of Sleepiness of Advanced Practice Nursing Students, Deana Shevit Goldin
Dissertation: The lived experience in relation to the educational needs of nurses caring for induced hypothermia patients, Marie Regina Hankinson
Dissertation: Transition to Practice Experience: The Impact on Newly Licensed RN Performance, Patricia P. Lawson
Capstone: Addressing Obstetric Health Care Providers' Nutritional Insight in the Low Socioeconomic Population, Nicole Theresa Marshall
Capstone: Managing Diabetic A1C at a Primary Care Center: A Nurse Practitioner Perspective, Jacqueline McDonald
Capstone: Chemotherapy Side Effects at Home: A Nursing Impact, Gwendolyn E. Saint-Clarke
Capstone: Evidence-Based Diabetic Discharge Guideline: A Standardized Initiative to Promote Nurses' Adherence, Marjorie V. Scarlett
Capstone: Steroid-Induced Hyperglycemia in Patients with Malignancies: Healthcare Team Adaptation to a Paradigm Shift, Miriam Ingrid Silva
Dissertation: Exploring Incivility among Nursing and Health Science Students: A Descriptive Study, Diane Louise Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Dissertation: Emotional intelligence and empathy of nursing students in an immersive capstone clinical course, Michelle L. Finch
Dissertation: Influence of Academic Self-Efficacy on the Early Academic Success of Underrepresented Minority Nursing Students Enrolled in the First Semester of a Baccalaureate Nursing Program, Connie Hataway
Dissertation: Qualitative descriptive study of the experiences of nurse educators in developing and implementing concurrent enrollment ADN-BSN programs, Janice Evans Hawkins
Dissertation: Teaching Strategies to Prepare Prelicensure Nursing Students to Teach-back, Mariann Kerr
Capstone: Evaluation of a cervical cancer surveillance program at a community health center, NaQuita Jackson Manning
Dissertation: Senior nursing students' knowledge, attitudes, and confidence with end-of-life care, Blanca E. Miller
Dissertation: The lived experience of the English as a Second Language RN-BSN degree completion student integrating to an online learning environment, Sonique S. Sailsman
Capstone: Initiating a perinatal depression screening protocol in a community-based hospital, Mari Seidu
Dissertation: Investigating the Efficacy of Pre-Licensure Clinical Interprofessional Education, Brenda Kay Wheeler
Dissertation: Predictive factors impacting intent to stay teaching for associate degree adjunct clinical nurse faculty, Julie Ann Woodworth
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Capstone: Addressing moral distress in critical care nurses, Rose Allen
Dissertation: Nursing Students' Perceived Value of the Pre-briefing Phase of Simulation, Jill Renae Chamberlain
Capstone: Transition care management program for improving 30-day hospital readmission in heart failure patients discharged to home healthcare agencies, Funmilayo Makinde
Capstone: Metabolic syndrome protocol : effects on improving outcomes in a mobile psychiatric practice, Anahi Muñoz
Capstone: Effective discharge planning to reduce readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Itumeleng Ncube
Capstone: Shared governance for advanced registered nurse practitioners, Maria Suarez
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Capstone: Pilot project designed to improve the medicationreconciliation processes for medical/telemetry nurses at a suburban south Florida hospital, Elizabeth ClemowTilly
Capstone: Pilot study to evaluate an evidence-based pain management protocol for adults with Sickle cell disease, Claude Coombs
Capstone: What are the experiences of nurse practitioners when communicating bad news to cancer patients?, Virginia Corey
Capstone: Perceptions of stress and quality of life of primary caregivers exposed to a Hospital-At-Home program, Pavel Costa-Armas
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Living in two worlds : experiences of non-native english speakers in an accelerated second-degree baccalaureate nursing program, Kimberly Dudas
Capstone: Implementation of a cardiovascular health-promotion program in a rural Africa-American community, Cheryl Eastmond
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Nursing students' attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control and intent regarding implementation of gerontological competencies, Christopher Garrison
Capstone: Role expectations and job functions of dermatology nurses, Denise Howard
Dissertation: Effects of high-fidelity simulation on the self-confidence and clinical competence of pre-licensure nursing students in the final semesters of an associate degree nursing program, Mary Keegan
Dissertation: Examination of selection of factors for admission to an associate degree nursing program, Mary Lewis
Capstone: Promoting exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life, Theresa Parenteau
Dissertation: Core professional nursing values as experienced by baccalaureate nursing students who are men, Bonnie Schmidt
Dissertation: Lived experience of transitioning to a new graduate nurse following a prelicensure hospital-based externship experience, Debra Shipman
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Dissertation: Learning together : the impact of interprofessional education among first-year health profession students, Karen Pardue
Dissertation: Millennial students' preferred learning style : evaluation of collaborative learning versus traditional lecture methods, Michelle Roa
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Comparison of educational interventions to impact behavioral intent toward pressure ulcer prevention among nurses on medical surgical units, Kathleen Russell-Babin
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Dissertation: Factors influencing retention of students in an RN-to-BSN program, Belinda Kern
Dissertation: Augmenting clinical educational material with high-fidelity simulators within an undergraduate baccalaureate nursing program, Linda McQuiston
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Evaluating the knowledge of those who teach : an analysis of candidates' performance on the certified nurse educator (CNE) examination, Tracy Ortelli