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  • Greg Alexander
  • "Human Factors, Automation, and Alerting Mechanisms in Nursing Home Electronic Health Records"
  • Martha Baker
  • "Defining the Relationship between Spirituality, Cultural Affliction, and Self Care Agency in N.E. OK Native Americans and Euro Americans"
  • Brenda Beshears
  • "The Experience of Young Adults Living with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis"
  • Martha Bogart
  • "Cardiac Catheterization: The Effects of Early Ambulation on Patient Comfort and Groin Complications"
  • Jane Bostick
  • "The Relationship of Nursing Personnel and Nursing Home Care Quality"
  • Constance Brooks
  • "The Imapact of People-Centered Team Training on Participants Engagement in the Relationship Requisites of Self-Development: A Qualitative Evaluation Study"
  • Terry Buford
  • "Transfer of Responsibility for Asthma Management from Parents to their School-Age Children"
  • Kathryn Burks
  • "Self-Management of Osteoarthritis:  An Intervention Study"
  • Vicki Burns
  • "The Experience of Having Become Sexually Active for Adolescent Mothers"
  • Sheila Capp
  • "Grief and Mourning Among African American Elders After Spousal Bereavement"
  • Gretchen Carlisle
  • “Pet Dog Ownership in Families of Children with Autism: Children's Social Skills and Attachment to Their Dogs”
  • Julie Clawson
  • "Perceptions about Roles and Obligations in Families in Which the Older Generation Members are Married"
  • Jane Cochran
  • "Meta Analysis of Quality of Life Outcome following Diabetes Self-Management Training"
  • Karen Courtney
  • "Privacy and Senior Adoption of Assistive Technology"
  • Karen Cox
  • "Effects of an Orem-Designed Nursing System on the Symptom Control in Children with Asthma"
  • Glenda Dahlstrom
  • "Privacy and Confidentiality of Patient Health Information"
  • Laurel Despins
  • "Factors Influencing Patient Risk Detection in Intensive Care Unit Nurses"
  • Anna Easter
  • "Preliminary Testing of the Modes of Being Present Scale"
  • Marcia Flesner
  • "Person Centered Care:  A Model for Nursing Homes"
  • Ben Francisco
  • "The Experience of Rural Children Whose Daily Lives are Limited by Asthma"
  • Mei Fu
  • "Managing Lymphedema in Breast Cancer Survivors"
  • Jeffrey Gage
  • "Studying the Influence Male Partners have on Smoking Cessation Among Pregnant Women"
  • Nelda Godfrey
  • "Character and Ethical Behaviors of Nurses"
  • Patricia Groves
  • "The Intersection between Safety Culture and Hospital Nursing Practice"
  • Stephen Hadwiger
  • "Managing Diabetes According to Mexican American Immigrants"
  • Terranut (Joy) Harnirattisai
  • "Exercise, Physical Activity, and Physical Performance in Thai Elders after knee replacement surgery: A Behavioral Change Intervention Study"
  • Karen Hayes
  • "Geragogy-Based Medication Instruction for the Rural Elderly Patient Discharged from the Emergency Department"
  • Sang-Arun Isaramalai
  • "Developing a Cross-Cultural measure of the Self-as-Carer Inventory Questionnaire for the Tahi Population"
  • Katherine Kelly
  • "Stepping Up, Stepping Back, Being Pushed, and Stepping Away. The Process of Making Treatment Decisions for Children with Cancer by Parents who no longer Live Together"
  • Sharon Kist
  • "Correlates of Pet-Keeping in Residence Halls on College Student Adjustment at a Small, Midwestern College"
  • Jean Krampe
  • "Dance-Based Theory to Decrease Fall Risk in Older Adults"
  • Suha Kridli
  • "Establishing Reliability and Validity of an Instrument Measuring Attitudes, Sub Norms, Per Cont, and Behavior Intentions of Jordanian Muslim Woman Toward the Use of Oral Contraception"
  • Rita Sue Lasiter
  • "Older Adults' Perception of Feeling Safe in an Intensive Care Unit"
  • Sheila Adams Leander
  • "The Experiences of Black American Living Kidney Donors"
  • Lisa Lewis
  • "The Use of Formal Substance Abuse Treatment Programs by Pregnant and Parenting African American Women"
  • Tamam Mansour
  • "Teaching Research to Undergraduate Students"
  • Yaowarat Matchim
  • "A Qualitative and Quantitative Study Examining Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on Physical and Psychological Well-being Among Breast Cancer Survivors"
  • Michelle Matteson
  • "Pilot Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence in Nonadherent Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients"
  • Teak Nelson
  • "Finding 'The Answers Inside Me': A Model of Empowerment Through Breastfeeding and Weaning"
  • Pamela Newland
  • "Multiple Sclerosis: Chronic Illness/Pain Management and Their Effect on the Quality of Life Across Lifespan"
  • Jantarakupt Peeranuch
  • "The Experience of Men who are Managing Symptoms of COPD"
  • Sherry Pomeroy
  • "Increasing Physical Activity in Rural Elderly"
  • Lori Popejoy
  • "Hospital Discharge Destination Decisions:  How frail Older Adults, Their Family, and Health Care Teams Make Decisions"
  • Cynthia Jo Riggs
  • "Measuring Nursing Home Staff Turnover Using Date-Of-Hire from Current Payroll Records"
  • Willetta Rogers
  • "Psychological Well-being of Family Caregivers of Dementia Patients in Nursing Homes"
  • Charlene Romer
  • "Stress and Coping in Women with Osteoarthritis:  A Qualitative Study"
  • Todd Ruppar
  • "A Behavioral Feedback - Based Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence in Older Adults with Hypertension"
  • Teresa Russell
  • "Professional Practice Models in Long-Term Care"
  • Wipa Sae-Sipa
  • "The Effect of Pressure Duration on Sacral Skin Blood Flow and Sacral Skin Temperature in Healthy Adults and Patients with Either Spinal Cord Inquiry or Orthopedic Trauma"
  • Jill Scott
  • "A Study of Health Care Utilization Among Chronically Ill Rural Older Adults"
  • Mary Ellen Simpson
  • "Testing Gender Difference in a Model for Exercise Adherence in US Army Reservists"
  • Sherri Ulbrich
  • "Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in Healthy Adults"
  • Amy Vogelsmeier
  • "Leadership, Communication, and Teamwork:  Differences between high and low Performing Nursing Homes"
  • Ausanee Wanchai
  • "Care Practices in Complementary and Alternative Medicine of Thai Breast Cancer Survivors"
  • Louise Whitenor
  • "Using Hongvivatana's Model to evaluate Health Care Access: A Field Study of Adolescent Women's Access to Reproductive Health Care Services in Rural MO Counties"
  • Suporn Wongvatunyu
  • "Mothers' Experience of Helping the Young Adult with Traumatic Brain Injury"
  • Benjakul Wunvimul
  • "The Assessment of Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Caring for HIV/AIDS Patients Among Senior Nursing Students in Baccalaureate Programs in the United States of American and Thailand"
  • Jie Yu
  • "Physical Function Among Community Dwelling Older Adults"