Theses, Dissertations, and graduate student summative projects submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation from Augsburg University

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Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Meaningful Pattern Recognition and Leadership, Quinn Bissonette

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The Perspectives of Reverse Transfer Students at Two-Year Technical Colleges, Ross A. Brower

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Job Satisfaction and the Relationship to Ethnicity, Carrie M. Carroll

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"I don't know where I'd be if not for this school": Perspectives of Students in a Recovery High School about Recovery and Transition to Post-Secondary Settings, Hannah Cushing

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Access To Higher Education For Undocumented Students, Meghan Flores

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Food Security in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation: A Nursing Educational Module, Beth E. Grund

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A Personal Inventory of Transformative Experiences Resulting in the Development of an Authentic Leadership Style, Trudy Hochradel

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How Nursing Impacts Nursing: Using Metaphor to Understand the Perinatal Nurse's Role, Kathleen Guinee Holman

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Strengths-Based Leadership and its Effect on Intrinsic Motivation and Employee Performance within a Corporate Setting, Kimberly A. Jatko

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Partnering Associate Degree Nursing Students and Community Health Worker Students in a Collaborative, Culturally Focused, Interprofessional Learning Experience, Jane E. Johnson

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A Study of the Crisis Leadership Model at Marshall University, Michele Kidwell

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Perspectives of Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders about their Experiences with Social Stories, Jason Kram

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Corporate Adaptation: from Wholesale to Direct to Consumer Shipments, Gretchen A. C. Kroll

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Beginning Teachers' Knowledge of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and Classroom Interventions, Summer Beth LaMontagne

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Image and Ability: the Role of Image in Female Leadership, Emily Loiacano

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Study of Leadership Characteristics During Transformational Change in Health Care Organizations, Susan Long

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The Identification of Leadership Strategies among Leaders of Successful Mergers or Acquisitions, Andrew F. Luce

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The Influence of Resonant Leadership Styles on Employee Engagement Within a Financial Services Organization, Ryan D. Maddux

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Integrating Archaeology into a Standards-Based, Fifth Grade Classroom, Lindsey Lee Elizabeth Mieras

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Driving Employee Engagement: Contemporary Trends in Engagement, Sarah A. Nelson

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Current Reading Methodologies used in Classrooms: Grades K-6, Brett Ott

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"Build from the Inside Out": Integrating Difference into Feminist Coalition Leadership, Erin E. Parrish

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A Case Study Examining Gender and Self-Efficacy in a Newsroom, Kathryn Eileen Parry

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Collaborative leadership strategies: A look into the funding models of Alternative Service and Nonprofit Organizations, Charles H. Pratt

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Staff Retention in Small Non-Profit Organizations, Michelle A. Redding

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Self-efficacy Issues Through Curriculum for Teachers of Students Labeled With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Eduardo Adolfo Regalado

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Development of an Educational Module for Novice ED Charge Nurses, Tobi R. Sanetra

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Lateral Violence: An Education Module, Amos M. Schonrock

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Experiences of Suburban Students in a Social Justice Literacy Program, Jillian L. Scott

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Father Angel Torrellas and Leadership through Music at Batahola Norte Center in Managua, Nicaragua, Carolyn Spargo

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The Semantic Differential: a Measurement of Meaning in one School's Mission, Emily A. Stull

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Assessing the Adolescent Perceptions of the Role Nonparent Adult Relationships Have on Character Development, Colin Thomas

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The Product Issues Tracking System: An Educational Module for Staff Nurses, Jane Torzewski

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Teaching Entrepreneurs, James R. Traeger

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Does Intercultural-Based Professional Development have an Influence on Employees of a Multicultural Urban College, Richard Everett Webb

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Coaching for Nursing Success for the First Year Generation Y Nurse, Lindsey Worden

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Growing Our Own: A Proposal for the Development of a Nurse Mentoring Program, Dawn M. Zeches

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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The Impact of Test Format Familiarity on Reducing Test Anxiety, William P. Aamodt

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How to Successfully Recruit Students in the Rapidly Changing World of Higher Education: Ethical Leadership for Enrollment Managers of Private Non-Profit Institutions, Charles R. Abbott

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Introducing Integrative Medicine at the Bedside to Patients with Post-traumatic Headache Pain, Melissa E. Allard

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Innovation Through Social Networking in Communities of Practice, Patricia K. Brill

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Complexity Theory and Local Government Application, Scott A. Brink

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A Call to Action After a Patient Fall, Lisa D. Bungum

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The Bible and the Ballot: the Christian Right in American Politics, Terence L. Burns

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Advancing a Culture of Safety Through the Creation of a Unit-Based Safety Team, Lynda K. Carr

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Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs: Writing the Major Paper or Thesis as a Graduate Student with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Judy L. Chucker

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Development, Implementation and Analysis of a Project-Based Model In a Special Education Setting, Joel Dimock

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Frequent Users of the Emergency Department: Guiding Patients to Comprehensive and Coordinated Care, Anne L. Draeger

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Creating an Environment That Fosters Feedback Among Nurses, Anne M. Egan

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Creating a Healing Environment in the Intensive Care Unit, Elissa Egbers

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Empowering and Retaining New Graduate Nurses Through a Structured Mentoring Program, Kelly O. Gamble

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Perspectives of Students Labeled with Emotional and/or Behavioral Disorders on Their Transition Programs, Allison E. Gardner

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Leadership Program Outcomes Study: Essential elements of leadership trainings offered to marginalized populations, Emily Halbur

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Facilitating the Staff Nurse's Role in Creating a Culture of Care on an Obstetrical Care Unit, Laura Struve Hanson

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Public Health Nursing and the Community: Partnering to Improve Health By Improving the Environment, Anna Haubrich

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Let Your Life Speak: Exploring the Lived Experience of Graduate Nurses In an Emergency Department Setting, Mary Margaret Healy

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Executive Turnover in the Chamber of Commerce Industry, Lori R. Higgins

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Developing a Conceptual (Mosaic) Transcultural Model of Nursing Care for Use at a Pediatric Inner-City Hospital, Lani Hollenbeck

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Students' Perceptions of Read 180 at the Middle School Level, Erica L. Johnson

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Motivational Interviewing with Patient Education to Promote a Safe Sleep Environment for Lakota Infants, Kari Johnson

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Student Perceptions of Responsive Classroom in an Urban Setting, Jeremy Lee Jones

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A Bridge to One World: An Indigenous Wisdom-Based Approach to Designing a Transcultural Patient Family Advisory Council, Julie Lundberg

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Communication In A Digital Age, Natalie M. Miller

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Care of Self: How Reiki is used by Nurses to Reduce Stress on an Acute Care Unit, LeAnn Olson

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Health and Wellness Coaching for Older Adults within a Faith Community, Julie K. Philbrook

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Youth Leadership Development in the Activism Context: a Case Study of the Wilder Youth Leadership Initiative, Susan Marie Phillips

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The Effect Frequent Organizational Restructure has on Employee Perceptions, Lisa Sabasteanski

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Creating Community With Homeless and Marginally Housed Women, Judy Schlaefer

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According to Secondary Female Science Students, What Creates an Engaging and Interesting Science Class, Colleen Victoria Quinn Schroeder

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The Self- Caring Tree: A Model of Nursing Self-Care, Cynthia M. Severson

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Can Leading Change Catalyze Innovation in the Workplace, Rebecca L. Smithwick

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Comparison of Registered Nurse Job Satisfaction to Patient Satisfaction and the Link to the Role of the Nurse Manager, Deborah M. Spotts

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New Graduate Nurse Orientation Program, Darcie L. Thies

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Case Study Scenario and Simulation: Supplementing a Student Nurse's Missed Foundational Clinical Nursing Experience, Lori Versaguis

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A Qualitative Study on how Dialogue, Discussion, and Debate Manifest in a Corporate Setting, Lisa Wocken

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A Conceptual Framework for Providing Healthy Meals for a Marginalized Population, Hoching Wu

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Migrant Workers Remittances: Building Futures and Forging Leadership Back Home, Mohamed Abdinur

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Strict Isolation Compliance: A Quality Improvement Initiative Implementation Process, Debra Apenhorst

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A Secondary Data Analysis of the Practice Intervention Designed to "Wipe out C. difficile", Kimberly Aronhalt

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Identifying Institutional Barriers to Addressing Health Disparities, Julia Ashley

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The Experience of Internationally Born Nurses Working in Twin Cities Hospitals, Jolene C. Baker

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The Perspective of Bullying According to Students with Asperger Syndrome, Ryan B. Barnick

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Caring Beyond Constraint: A Nursing Model of Presence in a Time Limited Procedural Practice, Laura Becker

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An Examination of the Impact of Social Influences on Followers' Assessments of Male and Female Leadership Behaviors, Mary L. Brown

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Leadership and the Theory of Metacommunication, Regina M. Brown

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Differences and Commonalities in Adult Expectations Regarding ADHD Referral, Nate Christopherson

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Generational Perspectives in Public Health Nursing: Workplace Conditions That Impact Job Satisfaction and Retention, Marilyn Kittleson Deling

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Integrative Literature Review Emotional Intelligence and its Relationship to Transformational Leadership, Katharine Ellingson

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Thinking Differently: Developing a Fall Risk Assessment for the Emergency Department Setting, Carissa K. Fauks

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Nurse to Nurse Communication: Conveying the Patient's Story, Cheryl Fisher Laine

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Women's Indirect Intra-Gender Aggression: A Study of Workplace Relationships, Deborah Friedman

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Rounding of the Administrative Supervisor and the Engagement of Charge Nurses in an Acute Hospital Setting, Kellie J. Geiger

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The Impact of a Writing Center on Cross-Curricular Writing: Teacher Perspectives, Whitney M. Gonzales

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The Persistence of the Glass Ceiling, Lora B. Holland

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Does Customer Service Training Influence Patient Satisfaction Scores?, Beth Holman

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Initiating a Faith Community Nurse Program in the Latino Community: Addressing the Health Care Disparity of Increased Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes, Helen Jones

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The Potential Relationship Between the Traits Associated with Left Brain or Right Brain Dominant Tendencies and the Characteristics of Leaders or Managers, Alex Keto

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Best Practices in the use of Employee Assessment Instruments in Leadership Development, Yvonne Kinney-Hockert

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Leadership Philosophy and Practice Which Drive Improved Chemical Health Outcomes, Denise St. Peter McAlpin

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Staying Alive: A Nursing Care Model in the Technical Delivery of Dialysis, Sylvia Moe