RSS 1.0Nursing Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC)
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Instrument Development and Psychometric Testing of the Capstone-Experience Preceptor Preparedness Scale: The Cap-ExPresS Study
(2022)Purpose: Preceptors are relied upon to prepare nursing students during their capstone experience as novice, generalist nurses. There is currently no instrument that measures the preceptor’s level of preparedness. The ... -
CHamorus' Narratives and Perceptions of Historical Trauma and Contemporary Health in Guam
(2021)Historical trauma refers to the generationally transferred human consequences of cultural oppression in a population associated with colonization, slavery, and genocide. Historical trauma theory suggests that such trauma ... -
Nursing Faculty's Experience of Faculty Bullying and its Impacts: A Qualitative Study
(2021)Faculty bullying is an ongoing problem in United States’ nursing schools as it can negatively affect the physical and psychological well-being of the targeted individuals, their careers, and the workplace environment. ... -
The relationship of career commitment and social determinants of academic achievement on perceived academic persistence among undergraduate nursing students
(2021)Examining why a student leaves a nursing program, voluntarily or involuntarily, after successfully meeting competitive admission criteria is an important area of research. The ability to persist in higher education, and ... -
Be Resilient: Examining the Relationship Between Staff Nurse Incivility and Undergraduate Nursing Students' Sense of Belonging to the Nursing Profession
(2021)Background: Sense of belonging is essential for nursing students to develop and grow within the nursing profession. Unfortunately, incivility threatens the sense of belonging in nursing students. Purpose: The purpose of ... -
The Influence of Nurses' Attitudes, Beliefs, and Biases Toward Families on Family-Centered Care Delivery in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Grounded Theory
(2021)The purpose of this study was to examine nurses’ attitudes, beliefs, and biases toward families and the influence these views have on the implementation of family-centered care in the neonatal intensive care unit and to ... -
The Nursing Workaround: Development of a Pyschometric Instrument
(2021)The development of nursing workarounds is a significant concern for healthcare organizations with the potential to have longstanding consequences to patient safety. Although numerous studies have been published about ... -
Exploring school nurse workload through the lived experiences of school nurses caring for students kindergarten through fifth grade
(2020)School nurses support the needs of healthy students, those with chronic diseases, all from diverse racial and ethnic groups. Current nurse-to-student ratios, or caseloads, do not fully capture the extent of their work. The ... -
A randomized feasibility and acceptability study comparing modes of parenting education delivery for young fathers
(2020)Limited research and reliance on maternal reports of father involvement in caregiving provides an inadequate understanding of adolescent fatherhood. Despite improved outcomes for infants and adolescent mothers when adolescent ... -
Nursing Faculty Perspectives Regarding the Effectiveness of Prelicensure Nursing Education
(2020)New graduate registered nurse unreadiness for professional practice is a growing, critical global issue that threatens public safety. While research has associated this academic under-preparation to preventable medical ... -
Mindfulness as a treatment for military women's chronic pelvic pain: A randomized controlled trial (MoCHI)
(2020)Purpose: The long-term aim of this study was to test the feasibility of a non-invasive, easy to learn, alternative method found online that can successfully assist Active Duty (AD) women with CPP regulate daily perceptions ... -
Differences Between Licensed Healthcare Professionals with Substance Use-Related Licensure Discipline
(2020)Substance Use Disorder (SUD) affects thousands of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare providers across the country. Healthcare providers who suffer from SUD are different from those in the general population ... -
A Descriptive Correlational Study of Rate and Determinants of Parental mHealth Adherence to Symptom Home Monitoring for Infants with Congenital Heart Disease during the Single Ventricle Interstage Period: The DOMAIN Study
(2020)Single ventricle heart disease care in the ambulatory setting affects approximately 4,000 infants in the United States annually. Treatment typically involves a three-staged surgical strategy over the first three years of ... -
Nursing Student Perceptions of the Effects of Interprofessional Communication and Teamwork on Time to Rescue
(2020)Simulation has been used in healthcare and other industries for many years. Advances in technology have made simulation a feasible teaching/learning pedagogy for undergraduate nursing students. Healthcare delivery continues ... -
Barriers to and Facilitators of Infertility Medication Adherence: A Mixed Methods Study
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Background. Infertility treatment protocols require women to engage in self management of their prescribed medication regimens, yet adherence to infertility medication schedules have been suboptimal. No prior research ... -
The Investigating Meaning/Purpose and Connectedness (IMPACT) Study: A Comparative Case Study of Parents of Adult Children with Schizophrenia
(2020)Schizophrenia is a chronic and disabling disease that causes significant stress for a family from the time of onset throughout the individual’s life. For families with members who live with schizophrenia, spirituality can ... -
An Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research and Intervention Strategy Applied to the Problem of Pediatric Asthma in Kansas City
(2020)This dissertation presents a multilevel health disparities research strategy using pediatric asthma in Kansas City as a case study. The first chapter introduces the problem of pediatric asthma in Kansas City and the ... -
Interprofessional Simulaton Among Healthcare Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Communication Self-Efficacy
(2020)Medical errors that result in adverse and sentinel events are linked to ineffective communication between providers and members of the healthcare team. Healthcare organizations have enacted multiple strategies to lower the ... -
A descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational exploration of perceived stress, quality of life, and family functioning in parents of a child with congenital heart disease: The PinCHeD Study
(2020)Background: As survival rates for infants born with severe forms of cardiac disease improve, attention is directed to evaluating factors that affect the child’s short- and long-term outcomes, including parental stress, ... -
A retrospective study of the clinical capstone experience on perceptions of practice readiness in associate degree student nurses and perceptors
(2019)Purpose of the Student Transitional Experience into Practice (STEP) study was to explore differences in perceptions of practice readiness between associate degree student nurses and their preceptors after a clinical capstone ...