Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Pathway to Freedom: A Community Health Center Protocol for Guiding Human Trafficking Survivors to Safety, Aimee M. Bellingar
Development of a Simulation Based on Lived Experiences of Health Care Barriers and Bias for Nursing, Greta Berg
Catalysts for Change: Promoting Health Equity Through Nurse Storytelling, Claire F. Buss
The Effect of a Stress Management and Resilience Training (SMART) Program Integrated into Perioperative Unit Culture, Jessica Fretty
Accompanying Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Nurse-Led Support Group, Rachel Hess
Exploring the Implementation of a Nurse Professional Development Specialist (NPDS) in the Cardiac-vascular Ambulatory Care Setting: a Role Proposal, Elinor E. Hughes
Care as Harm Reduction: Transcultural Nursing and Drug Use, Sarah Jane Keaveny
Tiered Skills Acquisitioin Model Pilot for New Graduate Registered Nurses, Jamie Kollman
Increasing Language Access to Provide Culturally Competent Care in Linguistically Diverse Patients, Sara B.H. Peters
Nurse Closure Visits in Consultative Medicine, Megan Poterucha
Surgical Equity for People Experiencing Homelessness, Rachel Schreyer
Cross-Cultural Mentorship, Elizabeth A. Tran
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for Nurses, Bahsan Awale
An Ethiopian Health Center: a Transcultural Approach to Health for Immigrants Living in Minnesota, Liyu Daniel
Racial Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Implict Bias Education in Nursing, Katie Daramola
Best Practices for the Retention and Graduation of Minority Nursing Students in 2 Year Programs, Rosalia Guadalupe Dominguez
Reiki for Health Promotion, Benjawan Jearanaivitthayakul
Aromatherapy: Alleviating Stress for People With Intellectual Disabilities Receiving Medical Care, Stacy C. Lenz
Using Huddles to Promote Interprofessional Collaboration and Psychological Safety, Mattie Rivera
Patient positioning to prevent pressure injuries, Maria D. Trevis
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Promoting Emotional Healing in Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mattie M. Decker
Integrative Music Therapy: A Healing Intervention for Children with Disabilities, Francesca N. Do
Resilience Through Mentorship, Erik Fairbanks
Essential Medications for Native Americans, Valerie Decora Guimaraes
An Acupressure Training Program for Nurses, Thazin Hlaing
Creating a Complex Care Model, Kathryn Hoehn
Improving the Discharge Planning Process in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Kimberly McFarlane
Integration of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE’s) Care Program, Erin B. Mehta
Art Therapy for Pediatric Oncology Patients, Chera Morrow
Exercise to Reduce Inpatient Nursing Stress, Kacy Odean
Sound and Silence for Patients With Dementia, Jess Porteous
Incorporating Quality Improvement and Problem-solving Into a Unit Safety Huddle, Kay M. Rowles
Holistic tai chi Practice: a Comprehensive Stress Reduction for Graduate Student Nurses, Thuy N. Tu
Living Life to the Fullest With Sjögren’s: an Online Resource, Vernalyn Wirig
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The art of Emotional Intelligence: Decreasing Lateral Violence Among Nurses, Cheryl Ann Brugger
Walking the journey side by side with the adolescent parent, Amy Buck
Laughter is the Best Medicine, Anna Michelle Case
Quiet Time: Supporting Rest and Healing in a Pediatric Medical/Surgical Setting, Kimberly R. Glidewell
Combating Pediatric Nurse Burnout and Increasing Retention With the Implementation of a Relaxation Room, Benjamin P. Groteboer
A Cross-cultural Health Internship, Anna C. Hjerpe
Exercise as Self-care to Combat Nurse Burnout, Jessica Petefish
Painting Support Group: a Gateway to Healing Anxiety and Depression, Summer G. Soto Angulo
Preventing Rehospitalizations Among Older Adults With Heart Failure, Megan E. Splittstoesser
Nursing Education on Sepsis, Bethsaida Taye
Nursing Improvisation: Improving Team Communication Through Creativity, Molly A. VanHorn
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Assuring Cultural Competence in the Nurse Caring for the Transgender Patient, LeAnn Bauman
Reiki for Pain and Anxiety in an Early Cancer Therapeutics Unit, Gwen M. Boe
Achieving an Inclusive Nursing Culture: Developing a Model for Diversity and Inclusion Education, Amber K. Charleville
A Proposal to Implement Assertive Community Treatment Into a Primary Care Shelter Clinic, Julie Churcher-Fields
Assessing Trauma in Adolescents With Chronic Pain, Andrea Ellingson
Family-inclusive Services for Children With Complex Health Care Needs, Jennifer Odegard
Transgender Patient Care Education for Rural Ambulatory Care Nursing Staff, Peggy S. Olson
Holistic Care of the Home Dialysis Patient, Dennis J. Stacy
Shifting the Paradigm: Promoting Wellness for Cancer Caregivers, Anna J. Windish
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Understanding Culture Care Among Somali Persons Receiving Home Healthcare, Daniel Amenya Amenya
Workplace Violence Education for Nursing Students, Carla Berg
Obstetric Violence: Suffering in Silence, Theresa Goodsell
A Case Management Pocket Resource Guide, Teresa Hegard
Health Literacy With Somali Families in the Pediatric Emergency Department, Katharine T. Misk
Creating a Culture of Care Among Nurse Leaders and Casting Center Staff, Tracy Y. Waters
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A Practice Model That Optimizes License Practical Nurses Skill set in an Outpatient Dialysis Unit, Ashley Anderson
Empowering Victims of sex Trafficking: Developing a Practice of Self-care, Samantha Foster
Maintaining Competence for Safe Equipment use in the Operating Room, Benedict M. Lorenz
Tai chi for the Management of Chronic Noncancer Pain, Jacqueline Njoki Sumner
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Trafficking victims in the emergency room setting, Lisa M. Archer
Developing a care process reducing post-procedural pain levels, David C. Bartel
Performance improvement through a shared governance structure, Erik R. Johnson
The integrative health and wellness program for veterans with spinal cord injury, Jamie Calie Lang
Educational model for nursing: back health in orthopedics, Krystal H. Marking
An acculturations orientation module for a midwestern endoscopy unit, Darcie E. Moehnke
Mentorship program for novice psychiatric nurses to improve retention, Laura Niesen
Early childhood nutrition education for Minnesota's Native American population, Rebecca Partridge
Healing touch modalities and pediatric patients, Shanna Rapp
Nurse mentorship program implementation to enculturate nurses to an intensive care unit, Michael A. Rysavy
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Reducing restraint and seclusion in psychiatric settings: a paradigm shift in nursing practice, Victor Afolami Awosika
Exercise as a treatment for depression, Frank M. Brekke
Caring moments model: putting the safe patient handling and mobility pieces together, Sally T. Gardner
No Estás Sola: the Development of an Educational Support Group for Latina Women at Risk for Postpartum Depression, Helen M. Knox
culturally sensitive career advancement for Hmong nurses, Sandra M. Littlejohn
Overcoming Knowledge Gaps in use of Capnography in a Post Anesthesia Care Unit: A Project Proposal, Glen Meyer
Uncertainty in nursing: the impact on practice and leadership, Sarah R. Orde
Caring for homless youths: a culturally congruent guide for volunteers, Katherine R. Palmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Postpartum depression: a prenatal nursing educational module, Teresa Ailts
QUEST for Health: An Early Beginning to a Lifelong Journey, Kerry P. Appleton
Nurse Burnout: When the Flame Goes Dim, Brittany M. Barden
Collaborative care model for treating adolescents with depression in primary care, Roxanne M. Brennan
Palliative care: an education pathway for renal nurses, June Buck-Tipton
Nutrition support nursing handoff: a computerized template, Suzanne L. Bundrick
A model of care: improving patient education in the emergency department, Jessica Degrote
Prevention of postoperative urinary retention, Terri L. Egesdal
Expanding the Practice of Caring in the Peri-anesthesia Unit, Jacqueline J. Meyer-Rostad
Improving Patient Safety in the Operating Room: Utilizing a Safety Checklist and Briefings, Lori R. Schacht
Reducing stress in nursing with aromatherapy, Elizabeth Rose Schmidt
Integrative therapies to address postoperative pain and anxiety: a nurse educational module, Sara Selvaraju
LGBT advocacy: one leader's journey through fear to transcendence, Paula Suffrins
Complementary therapies for care of the awake craniotomy patient, Lee Ann Wacholz
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Reducing Anxiety in Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Patients Using Reiki, Robyn Ait Ali
Interprofessional Collaboration, Amy L. Brabec
Holistic Understanding, Bridget Burness