1994-2008
| Graduates | Advisor | Dissertation Topic |
| Fall 1994 | ||
| Esther Hellman | Dr. Susan Noble Walker | Stages of Exercise Adherence Among Older Cardiac Clients. |
| Fall 1996 | ||
| OkSoo Hong | Dr. Martha Foxall | Antecedents and health-related consequences of loneliness in older Korean immigrants. |
| June Eilers | Dr. Lani Zimmerman | Factors that influence the impact of bone marrow transplantation for family caregivers of adult transplant recipients. |
| Ann Berger | Dr. Susan Noble Walker | Patterns of fatigue and factors influencing fatigue during adjuvant breast cancer chemotherapy. |
| Spring 1997 | ||
| Linda Jensen | Dr. Rosalee Yeaworth | Social Support and its Relationships to Parenting for Adolescent Mothers in a Rural Area. |
| Theresa Welcher | Dr. Martha Foxall | Factors Influencing Family Adaptation of Families of a Deaf Child. |
| Fall 1997 | ||
| Marcelline Harris | Dr. Lani Zimmerman | Descriptors and Predictors of Functional Status After Total Knee Replacement. |
| Fall 1998 | ||
| Carol Pierce | Dr. Mara Baun | Relationship of Dyspnoea, Functional Status, and Functional Capacity in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Following Lung Resection Surgery. |
| Karen Willette | Dr. Rosalee Yeaworth | Mental Well Being and Subjective Sleep of Older Wife Caregivers for Spouses with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. |
| Spring 1999 | ||
| Janet Cuddigan | Dr. Nancy Bergstrom | Pressure Ulcer Risk in the Critical Care Population. |
| Fall 1999 | ||
| Joyce Black | Dr. Nancy Bergstrom | Patient and Wound Factors Associated with Pressure Ulcer Healing Rates. |
| Francine Nelson | Dr. Lynne Farr | Salivary Melatonin and Pain Perception in Response to Graded Acute Pain Stimuli. |
| Spring 2000 | ||
| Natalie Rasmussen | Dr. Lynne Farr | Morphine Effects on Circadian Nociception and Beta-Endorphin. |
| Rebecca Keating-Lefler | Dr. Peggy Wilson | Reformulating Life: The Process of Becoming a Mother for Single, Unpartnered, Medicaid Eligible First Time Mothers |
| Summer 2001 | ||
| Ann Hubbert | Dr. Bevely Hays | Seniors' Need for and Use of Medicare Home Health Services |
| Fall 2001 | ||
| Frances Henton | Dr. Bevely Hays | Determination of Medicare Home Service Use |
| Janet Nieveen | Dr. Bernice Yates | Psychometric Testing of the Cardiac Survey and Prediction of Outcomes over the First Three Months After Coronary Bypass Graft Surgery. |
| Spring 2002 | ||
| Linda Hughes | Dr. Lani Zimmerman | Sociocultural, Physiologic, and Psychological Variables that Influence Pain in the Fibromyalgia Patient. |
| Summer 2002 | ||
| Deborah Banik | Dr. Cecilia Barron | Stress, Coping, and Physiological Responses Related to Post Treatment Mammogram in Breast Cancer Survivors. |
| Margaret Kaiser | Dr. Bevely Hays | Transition to Motherhood in Adolescence: The Development of the Adolescent Prenatal Questionnaire. |
| Fall 2002 | ||
| Nancy Fahrenwald | Dr. Jan Atwood | "Moms on the Move": A Physical Activity Intervention for WIC Mothers. |
| Fall 2003 | ||
| Jo Voss | Dr. Bernice Yates | Effect of Sedative Music and Scheduled Rest on Anxiety, Pain, and Myocardial Oxygen Demand during Chair Rest in Adult Postoperative Open-heart Patients |
| Jette Hogenmiller | Dr. Jan Atwood | Measures and Prediction of Pap Smear Screening Participation among Inner City Sheltered Women |
| Spring 2004 | ||
| Majeda El-Banna | Dr. Lynne Farr, Dr. Martha Foxall |
Correlates of Fatigue in Lymphoma Patients Undergoing Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation |
| Barbara Hobbs | Dr. Lynn Farr | Individual Differences and Sleep Disturbances in American Indian/Alaskan Native and White Non-Hispanic Nurse Shiftworkers |
| Jane Peterson | Dr. Bernice Yates | Promotion of Heart Health in Mid-Life Women: The Church-based Heart and Soul Physical Activity Program |
| Spring 2005 | ||
| Brenda Skaggs | Dr. Bernice Yates | Psychometric Testing of the Meaning in Heart Disease instrument |
| Cindy Costanzo | Dr. Susan Noble Walker | Physical Activity Counseling Intervention for Older Women in the Community |
| Rebecca Kreman | Dr. Bernice Yates | Achieving Behavioral Change with Motivational Interviewing |
| Claudia Chaperon |
Dr. Catherine Todero |
The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Temperature, Rest/activity, and Urine Volume Rhythms of Male Rats in Different Age Groups |
| Summer 2005 | ||
| Jane Schlickau | Dr. Peggy Wilson | Prenatal Breastfeeding Education: An Intervention for Pregnant Immigrant Hispanic Women |
| Patricia Wilhelm |
Dr. Peggy Wilson |
The Effect of Early Kangaroo Care on Breast Skin Temperature, Distress, and Breastmilk Production in Mothers of Premature Infants |
| Fall 2005 | ||
| Connie Miller | Dr. Lani Zimmerman |
Symptom Management intervention in Diabetic Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patients |
| Spring 2006 | ||
| Shirley Roddy | Dr. Susan Noble Walker | Raloxifene Effect on Lipids and Lipoproteins in Dyslipidemic Postmenopausal Women |
| Carolyn Reilly |
Dr. Lani Zimmerman |
Testing the Feasibility of Conducting a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Home Communication Intervention in the Elder Persons Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting |
| Sara Becker | Dr. Nancy Waltman | Breast Cancer Screening Patterns related to Mammography Adherence among Northern Plains Tribes American Indian Women |
| Summer 2006 | ||
| Catherine Bernosky de Flores | Dr. Peggy Wilson | Human Capital, Personal Networks, and Social Capital for Childbearing Mexican Immigrant Women in a New Destination Community |
| Fall 2006 | ||
| Cynthia Elverson | Dr. Peggy Wilson |
Social Regulation of the Stress Response in the Transitional Newborn |
| Spring 2007 | ||
| Mary Minton | Dr. Cecilia Barron |
Widowhood: The First Anniversary: Spousal Bereavement-Related Stress, Coping, and Well-Being in Older Women |
| Joyce Fjelland | Dr. Cecilia Barron Dr. Martha Foxall |
Meaning and Depression in Women with Breast Cancer |
| Merry Foyt | Dr. Margaret Wilson |
The Experience of Infant Death for African American Mothers |
| Helga Helgadottir | Dr. Margaret Wilson |
Education for Parents to Manage Children’s Pain at Home after Tonsillectomy |
| Suzanne Nuss | Dr. Margaret Wilson |
Redefining Parenthood: Surviving the Death of a Child |
| Fall 2007 | ||
| Barry, Teresa | Dr. Cheryl Thompson |
Changes in Perceived Health Status and Health Determinants in Low-Income Midlife Women. |
| Bosak, Kelly | Dr. Bernice Yates Dr. Bunny Pozehl |
Measuring, Monitoring and Managing Outcomes in Advanced Nursing Practice with an Emphasis on Chronic Disease Processes Managed by Advanced Practice Nurses. |
| Dahlen, Larry | Dr. Lani Zimmerman |
Functional Status as Influenced by Pain Perception Following Total Knee Arthroplasty. |
| Schulz, Paula | Dr. Bernice Yates |
Predicting Physical Outcomes in Elderly CABG Patients |
| Wielgus, Kimberly | Dr. Ann Berger |
Oncology Patients Receiving Hospice Care. |
| Spring 2008 | ||
| Abbott, Amy | Dr. Sue Barnason Dr. Lani Zimmerman |
Symptom Management of Fatigue, Sleep Disruption, and Pain in Post-CABG Patients. |
| Fall 2008 | ||
| McGuire, Rita | Dr. Lani Zimmerman |
Examining Intervention Components for Promoting Adherence to Strength Weight Training Exercise in Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Survivors With Bone Loss |
