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Fall 2021

Crossman, Renee

Background: Insulin pump utilization has increased significantly over the past 30 years and despite extensive research on adapting to, living with, and managing diabetes, there is a paucity of research on the enactment of diabetes in the context of insulin pumps. Purpose: I aimed to explore...

Spring 2021

Blackstock, Sheila

Background: New graduate nurses (NGNs) continue to experience co-worker incivility even when educational interventions, transition programs, and workplace policies and programs are provided. Incivility contributes to NGNs leaving the nursing profession at staggering rates contributing to an...

Spring 2021

Iregbu, Sandra, Chinwe

Background: Studies show that most people living with diabetes in Nigeria have inadequate knowledge of their condition, poor self-management, and poor glycemic control. Many of these studies focused on patients who were often blamed by healthcare providers (HCPs) for their situation. There is a...

Fall 2021

Joyce Kamanzi

The purpose of my study was to explore the experiences of mothers using the PMTCT Program to prevent HIV transmission in Rwanda. Critical ethnography was the research design for my study. The intersectionality framework guided this study. The population of my research study included HIV + women;...

Fall 2021

Lemermeyer, Gillian

This phenomenological study explores the lived experience of the nurse’s touch in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Touch is deeply embedded within NICU nursing, sometimes so taken-for-granted as to seem invisible, but implied in nearly every nursing gesture and pursuit. Inserting an...

Spring 2021

Kalogirou, Maya

Aim: The purpose of this study was to answer the following question: What are Albertan nurses’ beliefs related to climate change, health, and nursing practice, and how is their ability to practice in an environmentally responsible manner influenced by their workplace setting? Background: Climate...

Fall 2021

Chauvette, Amelia Jane

Background: Nurses working in today’s contemporary health care environment are expected to use a variety of digital/informatics tools when providing direct care. These tools are increasingly essential to improve data management and consequently patient and system outcomes. Nursing faculty,...

Fall 2021

Campbell, Alyson L

Background: Pediatric concussion is a common, yet complex injury caused by a direct or indirect blow to the head. Pediatric concussion places considerable burdens on children, families, and the healthcare system. To minimize this burden, it is essential that patients and families are connected to...

Fall 2021

Zaplachinski, Caitlin

Children are experiencing increasingly complex health needs that can be exacerbated by adverse events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. While school-based public health nurses are in ideal positions to help address these needs, a comprehensive literature review suggests that school nurses are...

Fall 2021

Prendergast, Susan, L

Birth decisions have a significant impact on the physical health of a woman and her child as well as to a woman’s mental and emotional health. Healthy low-risk women who birth with a physician in a hospital have statistically significantly higher odds of having interventions like augmentation and...