Hospitals are challenged to understand factors related to staff nurse retention in the context of the nursing shortage slowdown (Huselid, 1995; Mancino, 2008; Mancino, 2009). Leadership is a major factor in organizational success (Gandossy &...
Medical appointments and schedules; Simulation methods
Healthy for Life is a relatively new University of Louisville medical clinic which attempts to stem the epidemic of childhood obesity. This program offers a range of face-to-face services for overweight children. The main problem addressed by this...
Maritime museums--Indiana--Jeffersonville; Museums--Collection management--Indiana--Jeffersonville; Howard Steamboat Museum
My project looks at the current state of collections at the Howard Steamboat Museum located in Jeffersonville, Indiana and how the staff can improve their collections care and management. It is imperative that collection management guidelines and...
School superintendents--United States; School management and organization--United States; School principals--United States; Leadership--United States; Ethics--United States; Teaching
The need for moral leadership in schools compels us to seek new models for school leadership. This self-study captures the actual experience of a beginning principal using a reflective practitioner methodology in an effort to explore the...
Problem children--Education; Teacher-student relationships; Child psychotherapy--Residential treatment
This dissertation contributes to the existing body of research investigating teacher efficacy, collective teacher efficacy, academic efficacy, and teacher-student relationships within residential treatment centers (RTCs) for adolescents. While past...
The clinical experience represents a critical component in nursing education. During the clinical, students apply classroom theory to nursing practice and become socialized into the nursing profession. Because of the current nursing shortage,...
Social service--Evaluation; Social service--Kentucky
This dissertation is an exploratory, mixed methods study using grounded perspective to examine how stakeholders (including consumers, administrators, and practitioners) in social welfare organizations perceive effectiveness in the nonprofit social...
Christian leadership--Case studies; Rural churches--Kentucky; Clergy; School improvement programs; Educational leadership
This qualitative study sought to illuminate successful practices of a turnaround leader in a rural church that are applicable cross-contextually, so as to inform the leadership efforts of various organizations seeking to reproduce organizational...
Politicians; United States. Congress. House--Speakers; United States. President; Celebrities; United States. Congress; Legislators--United States
Congressman Romano L. (Ron) Mazzoli, interviewed by Kevin Collins on May 24, 2010 as part of the Romano L. Mazzoli oral history project. This is the fourth of 17 interviews conducted with the Congressman, who represented the Third District of...
Dialectical behavior therapy; Women prisoners--Rehabilitation; Women prisoners--Psychology; Women prisoners--Mental health services; Women prisoners--Mental health
This dissertation examines the effectiveness of a partial skills group component of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in female prison inmates. DBT is an evidence-based comprehensive treatment which addresses emotional reactivity, impulsivity and...
Mental health facilities--Employees--Rating of; Medical personnel--Rating of
There is a growing shortage of Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. This shortage is at a crisis now and will continue to become more of a crisis unless changes are made. This is a crisis...
The purpose of this study was to investigate how various components of family literacy programs such as operational characteristics (enrollment procedure, hours of operation, time of class, curriculum selection, type of instruction, and age of...
School principals--Attitudes; Educational leadership; Teacher-principal relationships
This dissertation builds on the work of Argyris and Schön (1974), who explained
patterns of organizational learning using a concept called theories of practice, cognitive
formulas for professional problem solving. Theories of practice consist of...
Emergency management--Kentucky; Assistance in emergencies--Kentucky; Disaster relief--Kentucky; Transportation--Planning
Large-scale emergencies caused by earthquake, tornado, pandemic flu, terrorism attacks and so on can wreak havoc to communities. In order to mitigate the impact of the events, emergency stockpiles of food, water, medicine and other materials have...
Mathematics--Computer-assisted instruction; Mathematics--Study and teaching; Special education--Mathematics
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of different instructional
types used in a mathematics intervention setting. In recent years, school staff have
implemented mathematics intervention programs to aid struggling students and...
Male college students--Social conditions; College freshmen--Social conditions; People with social disabilities--Education (Higher)
This dissertation is a case study involving four, first generation, working class,
college students. The dissertation study chronicled the experiences of these students
during their first semester at the college. In order to more effectively focus...
Mentoring in education--United States; Recreation--Administration
The purpose of this study was to discover factors which influence a mentor's decision to engage in a mentoring relationship within campus recreation administration. The present study investigated four areas of inquiry within campus recreation:...
Many businesses have poor IT infrastructure and are in need of a major overhaul. University of Louisville Properties (ULP), in particular, needed the ability to share files between staff, backup data, secure data, and eliminate viruses and malware....
Composite portrait of Dr. J.W. Fowler (Chief of Staff, City Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky), a hospital (presumably City Hospital), and Dr. Fowler with staff.
