Browsing Nursing Undergraduate Theses by Title
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Nurses’ Commitment and Motivation to Improved Personal Health: The Role of Hospital Administration
(2014-04-01)Two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight, 34% are obese. Obesity leads to increased morbidity and mortality, while decreasing the quality of life of individuals and adding enormous fiscal burdens to an ... -
Nursing in Montana: Institutional and Organizational Changes, 1961 - 1976
(1978-04-01)The nineteen hundreds saw American institutions as custodial centers whose goals were to keep the patient safe, guard him, and manage him as he was incapable of managing himself. The early institutions stripped the client ... -
Nursing Informatics: A Challenge for Change
(1996-04-01)Although information systems were introduced into the health care setting over thirty years ago, their full potential remains consistently under-realized by nurses (Bongartz, 1988) . Kurt Lewin's Change Theory provides the ... -
Nursing Interventions Utilized by Parish Nurses in Swaziland
(2008-04-01)The area and culture most affected by AIDS is in sub-Saharan Africa, where 74 percent of the total number of people infected resides. In January 2005 data was collected through the nursing intervention classification (NIC) ... -
Nursing's Role in the Identification and Treatment of Bulimia
(1997-04-01)A review of the epidemiology, etiology, treatment and prevention of bulimia, a review of nursing process as it relates to bulimia, and the identification of a screening tool to assess bulimia is important to identify and ... -
Nutrición Para La Vida
(2012-04-01)The purpose of this research study was to explore the challenges faced by nurses working to enhance the nutritional status of Latin American immigrants working in Montana and Idaho. Classic grounded theory with constant ... -
Our Soil, OurSelves: Ecotherapy for the Nurse, Patient, and Planet
(2003-04-01)The nursing profession is concerned with the health and well-being of individuals and their physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs. Each need, or dimension, must be explored in isolation, as well as in relation ... -
Parents’ Lived Experience with a Child Who Has Asthma
(2008)In the past year, more than four million parents brought their children to the hospital with asthma symptoms such as wheezing, shortness of breath and chest tightness. Purpose: To increase knowledge and understanding of ... -
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
(2008-04-01)Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrine disorder that affects between 3.5 and 5 million women of reproductive age in the United States (Barron, 2004). It is characterized by hyperandrogenism and menstrual ... -
Postoperative Pain: Senior Nursing Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Related to Postoperative Pain
(2009-04-01)Presently, postoperative pain remains inadequately assessed and poorly managed both of which can have a profound impact on the individual's physiological and psychological state, possibly resulting in severe complications ... -
Postpartum Depression: Prompt Detection and Treatment Prevents Life-Threatening Consequences
(2004-04-01)Postpartum depression (PPD) is a dynamic mental disorder that is found in many new mothers. Although postpartum depression is a common disease with many severe symptoms, its diagnosis is often missed. The purpose of this ... -
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents
(2010-04-01)Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is often misunderstood with many stigmas associated with the illness itself. Healthcare providers are undereducated on posttraumatic stress disorder, resulting in less than optimal care, and ... -
Pressure Ulcer Prevention: A Study to Measure the Effects of Education on the Pressure Ulcer Knowledge of Certified Nursing Assistants and Personal Care Assistants
(2017-05-13)Background Pressure ulcers, also known as “decubitus ulcers”, “pressure injuries” or more commonly “bed sores” occur when a patient is sitting or lying on a pressure point for an extended period of time, resulting in skin ... -
Prevention and Management of Type 2 Diabetes With Lifestyle Changes and Weight Control
(2009-04-01)Affecting 20.8 million Americans, 7% of the population, Type 2 diabetes (DM2) is currently considered a pandemic affecting people of all ages, sex, and race (National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse [NDIC], 2005). ... -
Renal Disease, Dialysis, and Sleep Deprivation
(2009-04-01)Renal disease was the ninth leading cause of death in 2004 taking the lives of 42,480 Americans (CDC, 2004), and 500,000 people are receiving dialysis (Wrobel, 2007). Renal disease is a serious problem in the United States ... -
Space Race, Siri and the Central Dogma: A Contemporary Nursing Analysis of Antibiotics Resistance
(2019-04-01)In the age of information, antibiotic resistance is still a black-box problem in clinical practice; pathogens are often defined in terms of which pharmaceuticals are no longer effective, and treatment protocols are prescribed ... -
Spirituality in Individuals Recovering from Facial Trauma
(2009-04-01)Trauma is the leading cause of death of individuals between the ages of one to 44 (Albertson et al., 2006). The purpose of this thesis is to gain an understanding of the role spirituality play in the recovery from traumatic ... -
Striving to Maintain Normalcy Living with Addison's Disease
(2011-04-01)Purpose: Studies show a correlation between premature mortality rates in individuals diagnosed with Addison?s disease. Individuals with this diagnosis go from living active, busy lives to having difficulty maintaining work ... -
Suffering and Relaxing: The Experience of Three Women with Fibromyalgia Receiving Therapeutic Touch
(2004-04-01)Fibromyalgia is a potentially debilitating disease characterized by chronic pain, fatigue, and depression. The purpose of this research project was to describe the effects of Therapeutic Touch, an alternative therapy, on ... -
The Adult Individuals’ Experience with Type 2 Diabetes
(2007-04-01)Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) has become an epidemic in the United States and throughout the world. Within the United States, an estimated 20.8 million people have this deadly disease. DM2 is a fatal condition leading to ...