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 2013
Patient-family Centered Advisory Council for the Emergency Department, Kelly Sanocki
Leadership in VolunTourism, Heidi Jolivette Satre
Perceptions of Reading from a Reluctant Teen Reader, Colin Slaby
Employee Satisfaction and Employee Productivity: Finding the Link, Diane Slyman
The Impact of Interdisciplinary Project Work on Student Engagement in Mathematics Learning, Kristin Sonquist
Juvenile Probation Officers' Perspectives of the Special Education Process, Lauren Trainer
More Than a Search Engine: Undergraduate Perspectives on Library Instruction, Kristine Vick
Integrating Mindfulness Meditation into Undergraduate Nursing Curricula, Michelle Yankowiak
The Role of Visual art in k-5 Classrooms in a Midwestern School District, Alexis Zaccariello
Differentiating Math Instruction in an Elementary Classroom: Teacher Perspectives, Amy Lynn Zagaros Hoff
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Using Service-Learning to Improve Attitudes and Behaviors Towards Recycling in a Secondary School, Sharriah B. Armstrong
Creating a Culture of Caring in the Perianesthesia Practice, Tammy S. Bergan
Meaningful Pattern Recognition and Leadership, Quinn Bissonette
The Perspectives of Reverse Transfer Students at Two-Year Technical Colleges, Ross A. Brower
Job Satisfaction and the Relationship to Ethnicity, Carrie M. Carroll
Access To Higher Education For Undocumented Students, Meghan Flores
A Strong School Community: the Student's Perspective, Melisa Gilbertson
Food Security in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation: A Nursing Educational Module, Beth E. Grund
A Personal Inventory of Transformative Experiences Resulting in the Development of an Authentic Leadership Style, Trudy Hochradel
How Nursing Impacts Nursing: Using Metaphor to Understand the Perinatal Nurse's Role, Kathleen Guinee Holman
Factors that Affect Math Learning in the Classroom, Lauren Katherine Hoyt
Strengths-Based Leadership and its Effect on Intrinsic Motivation and Employee Performance within a Corporate Setting, Kimberly A. Jatko
Bridging the Gap: Nurse Mentorship Program, Jacqueline J. Johnson
A Study of the Crisis Leadership Model at Marshall University, Michele Kidwell
Perspectives of Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders about their Experiences with Social Stories, Jason Kram
Corporate Adaptation: from Wholesale to Direct to Consumer Shipments, Gretchen A. C. Kroll
Beginning Teachers' Knowledge of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and Classroom Interventions, Summer Beth LaMontagne
Image and Ability: the Role of Image in Female Leadership, Emily Loiacano
Study of Leadership Characteristics During Transformational Change in Health Care Organizations, Susan Long
The Identification of Leadership Strategies among Leaders of Successful Mergers or Acquisitions, Andrew F. Luce
The Influence of Resonant Leadership Styles on Employee Engagement Within a Financial Services Organization, Ryan D. Maddux
Enhancing Cultural Awareness: Building Relationships Between Non Native American Nurses and Native American Lakota Patients, Sharon Mercill
Integrating Archaeology into a Standards-Based, Fifth Grade Classroom, Lindsey Lee Elizabeth Mieras
Driving Employee Engagement: Contemporary Trends in Engagement, Sarah A. Nelson
Current Reading Methodologies used in Classrooms: Grades K-6, Brett Ott
"Build from the Inside Out": Integrating Difference into Feminist Coalition Leadership, Erin E. Parrish
A Case Study Examining Gender and Self-Efficacy in a Newsroom, Kathryn Eileen Parry
Collaborative leadership strategies: A look into the funding models of Alternative Service and Nonprofit Organizations, Charles H. Pratt
Staff Retention in Small Non-Profit Organizations, Michelle A. Redding
Self-efficacy Issues Through Curriculum for Teachers of Students Labeled With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Eduardo Adolfo Regalado
Development of an Educational Module for Novice ED Charge Nurses, Tobi R. Sanetra
Lateral Violence: An Education Module, Amos M. Schonrock
Experiences of Suburban Students in a Social Justice Literacy Program, Jillian L. Scott
Father Angel Torrellas and Leadership through Music at Batahola Norte Center in Managua, Nicaragua, Carolyn Spargo
The Semantic Differential: a Measurement of Meaning in one School's Mission, Emily A. Stull
Assessing the Adolescent Perceptions of the Role Nonparent Adult Relationships Have on Character Development, Colin Thomas
The Product Issues Tracking System: An Educational Module for Staff Nurses, Jane Torzewski
Teaching Entrepreneurs, James R. Traeger
Does Intercultural-Based Professional Development have an Influence on Employees of a Multicultural Urban College, Richard Everett Webb
Coaching for Nursing Success for the First Year Generation Y Nurse, Lindsey Worden
Growing Our Own: A Proposal for the Development of a Nurse Mentoring Program, Dawn M. Zeches
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Impact of Test Format Familiarity on Reducing Test Anxiety, William P. Aamodt
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
Introducing Integrative Medicine at the Bedside to Patients with Post-traumatic Headache Pain, Melissa E. Allard
Transcultural Nursing in Guatemala: A Different Yield, Katherine A. Baumgartner
Innovation Through Social Networking in Communities of Practice, Patricia K. Brill
Complexity Theory and Local Government Application, Scott A. Brink
A Call to Action After a Patient Fall, Lisa D. Bungum
The Bible and the Ballot: the Christian Right in American Politics, Terence L. Burns
Advancing a Culture of Safety Through the Creation of a Unit-Based Safety Team, Lynda K. Carr
Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs: Writing the Major Paper or Thesis as a Graduate Student with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Judy L. Chucker
Development, Implementation and Analysis of a Project-Based Model In a Special Education Setting, Joel Dimock
Frequent Users of the Emergency Department: Guiding Patients to Comprehensive and Coordinated Care, Anne L. Draeger
Creating an Environment That Fosters Feedback Among Nurses, Anne M. Egan
Creating a Healing Environment in the Intensive Care Unit, Elissa Egbers
Empowering and Retaining New Graduate Nurses Through a Structured Mentoring Program, Kelly O. Gamble
Perspectives of Students Labeled with Emotional and/or Behavioral Disorders on Their Transition Programs, Allison E. Gardner
Community Health Workers: Bearers of the Light in Health, Healing, and Care, Jean M. Gunderson
Leadership Program Outcomes Study: Essential elements of leadership trainings offered to marginalized populations, Emily Halbur
Facilitating the Staff Nurse's Role in Creating a Culture of Care on an Obstetrical Care Unit, Laura Struve Hanson
Public Health Nursing and the Community: Partnering to Improve Health By Improving the Environment, Anna Haubrich
Let Your Life Speak: Exploring the Lived Experience of Graduate Nurses In an Emergency Department Setting, Mary Margaret Healy
Executive Turnover in the Chamber of Commerce Industry, Lori R. Higgins
Developing a Conceptual (Mosaic) Transcultural Model of Nursing Care for Use at a Pediatric Inner-City Hospital, Lani Hollenbeck
Students' Perceptions of Read 180 at the Middle School Level, Erica L. Johnson
Motivational Interviewing with Patient Education to Promote a Safe Sleep Environment for Lakota Infants, Kari Johnson
Student Perceptions of Responsive Classroom in an Urban Setting, Jeremy Lee Jones
Nursing Vigilance - Blocking the Road to Delirium through a Culture of Care, Mary Ann Kinney
The Caring Connection: Using Leadership Metis to Facilitate Community Outreach for Hospital-based Nurses, Susan Rein Loushin
A Bridge to One World: An Indigenous Wisdom-Based Approach to Designing a Transcultural Patient Family Advisory Council, Julie Lundberg
Ways of Knowing Transcultural Herbal Healing, Kristin M. McHale
Somali CARES: Listening to the Voices of the Other, Joyce P. Miller
Communication In A Digital Age, Natalie M. Miller
Care of Self: How Reiki is used by Nurses to Reduce Stress on an Acute Care Unit, LeAnn Olson
Health and Wellness Coaching for Older Adults within a Faith Community, Julie K. Philbrook
Youth Leadership Development in the Activism Context: a Case Study of the Wilder Youth Leadership Initiative, Susan Marie Phillips
The Effect Frequent Organizational Restructure has on Employee Perceptions, Lisa Sabasteanski
Creating Community With Homeless and Marginally Housed Women, Judy Schlaefer
According to Secondary Female Science Students, What Creates an Engaging and Interesting Science Class, Colleen Victoria Quinn Schroeder
The Self- Caring Tree: A Model of Nursing Self-Care, Cynthia M. Severson
Can Leading Change Catalyze Innovation in the Workplace, Rebecca L. Smithwick
Comparison of Registered Nurse Job Satisfaction to Patient Satisfaction and the Link to the Role of the Nurse Manager, Deborah M. Spotts
New Graduate Nurse Orientation Program, Darcie L. Thies
Case Study Scenario and Simulation: Supplementing a Student Nurse's Missed Foundational Clinical Nursing Experience, Lori Versaguis
A Qualitative Study on how Dialogue, Discussion, and Debate Manifest in a Corporate Setting, Lisa Wocken