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Note: The co-author of this thesis is Sandra Hnizdo. See the attached thesis cover page. Full Abstract: This prospective cohort study was conducted to evaluate the validity and reliability of the...

Although recent studies on nursing stressors have been concentrating on the stress of patient care at the bedside, research have also shown that nursing environments are a major contributor of stress...

Disciplines such as law, business, and medicine have used case studies for decades to teach students about their field through comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation skills...

Senior Honors Research Capstone Project, March 23, 2015.

Abstract: For over 50 years the profession of nursing has voiced the belief that the level of the Baccalaureate Degree should be required for entry into the practice of professional nursing. Despite...

Dissertation, Creighton University, 2015.The purpose of this qualitative, transcendental phenomenological study was to explore the impact of nurses’ faith on their ability to provide the spiritual...

ABSTRACT Dignity appears to have been an important concept in ancient times, the Middle Ages, through the Renaissance to the present. It is an intrinsic component of nursing practice. However, there...

This dissertation presents a close study of the Didache, Church Order Literature, and early church worship liturgies. This research suggests these early documents preserved a means for spiritual...

What has caused small Churches of the Nazarene on the Southwest Oklahoma District to decline in Sunday morning attendance and be in jeopardy of being closed? A 2023 district report shows that seventy...

Childhood traumatic experiences hinder spiritual formation. The current alarming increase of trauma in the lives of children necessitates that pastors and lay youth leaders become educated about...

This dissertation presents a close study of the Didache, Church Order Literature, and early church worship liturgies. This research suggests these early documents preserved a means for spiritual...

El tema de este estudio surge de más de cuatro décadas de ministerio dentro de la Iglesia del Nazareno dedicadas a la formación y desarrollo de líderes y pastores, mayormente en América Latina, que...

This research focuses on women in Christian ministry in the U.S. Latinx communities in The Church of the Nazarene. Through the light of Mujerista Theology, it examines the role and contribution of...

Grief is an inevitable reality, and all people will experience grief at some point in their life. Pastors are among those who first respond at the time of a death and are often invited to journey with...

The modern church is facing a crisis of people who do not know how to grow spiritually. Congregants feel their church is not preparing them to grow in their own spiritual life. The Enneagram, with its...

The Restoration Movement (RM), seeking to unify Protestantism through clear patterns of biblical teachings, instead resulted in further divisions caused by differing ways the “clear” teachings were...

The Free Church tradition suffers from a disconnect between theology and practice which allows consumer culture to infiltrate the church. Consumerism often manifests itself through objectification...

This research presents a study of Street Pastors in the United Kingdom (UK). Street Pastors are Christian volunteers who look after vulnerable people in the night-time economy, providing them security...

All Christians have a responsibility to care for each other. However, the practices of care in the church have become centered around the clergy. This not only fails to empower the lay members of a...

Contemporary American society has developed a culture of intensive mothering, which has continued to grow in recent years. This results in women whose primary identity is motherhood and a culture that...

This project was developed to assist the South Weymouth Church of the Nazarene, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to embody a congregational approach to ministry that nurtures adolescents into a lifelong...

The Church of the Nazarene is an international denomination. Yet, in the United States, the church is mono-ethnic, mainly in membership and mindset. The influence and practice of racism throughout...

The Church of the Nazarene is facing challenges in supplying its rural churches with pastoral leadership. The decline in population and limited access to resources contribute to the lack of interest...

This research analyzes the exodus of millennials and Gen Z from the evangelical church in order to strengthen outreach and discipleship to these generations at CrossRoads Community Church of the...

Approximately forty-five to seventy-five percent of CoTN congregations in the USA/Canada region need contextual educational changes. Why? Many ministry leaders serve in nontraditional roles or as BIVO...