The Nursing Faculty Research and Publications Series is comprised of books and articles published by Marquette University's nursing faculty.
Submissions from 2007
Dyadic Relationship Scale: A Measure of the Impact of the Provision and Receipt of Family Care, Margaret Sebern and Carol J. Whitlatch
Diagnosis, surveillance, and screening for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: methods and dilemmas, Marianne E. Weiss and Christine E. Cronk
Perceived Readiness for Hospital Discharge in Adult Medical-Surgical Patients, Marianne E. Weiss, Linda B. Piacentine, Lisa Lokken, Janice Ancona, Joanne Archer, Susan Gresser, Sue Holmes Baird, Sally Toman, Anne Toy, and Teri Vega-Stromberg
Book Review of Grieving Mental Illness: A Guide for Patients and Their Caregivers (2nd ed.) by V. LaFond, Jaclene A. Zauszniewski and Abir K. Bekhet
Effects of Teaching Resourcefulness and Acceptance on Affect, Behavior, and Cognition of Chronically Ill Elders, Jaclene Zauszniewski, Abir K. Bekhet, Chien-Yu Lai, Patricia McDonald, and Carol M. Musil
Moving from Tradition to Evidence: A Review of Psychiatric Nursing Intervention Studies, Jaclene Zauszniewski, M. Jane Suresky, Abir K. Bekhet, and Lori Kidd
Submissions from 2006
Creating Technology-enhanced Practice: A University-Home Care-Corporate Alliance, Patricia Flatley Brennan, Laura Burke, Gail Casper, Margaret Sebern, Carolyn Krause, Susan Kossman, Delores Severtson, and Judy Murphy
The Present State of NFP Science, the Challenges we Face, Richard Fehring
Variability in the Phases of the Menstrual Cycle, Richard Fehring, Mary Schneider, and Kathleen Raviele
Inhibitors of COX Activity Preserve Muscle Mass in Mice Bearing the Lewis Lung Carcinoma, But Not the B16 Melanoma, Erin Graves, Edward Ramsay, and Donna O. McCarthy
Recommendations for Sexuality Education for Early Adolescents, Kristin Haglund
Understanding Sexual Abstinence in African American Teens, Kristin Haglund
Pushing for Change, Lisa Hanson
The National Children’s Study Waukesha County, Wisconsin Vanguard Center, Jeanne B. Hewitt, Steven R. Leuthner, Marianne E. Weiss, David Whelan, Leslie Athey, Jane A. McElroy, Maureen S. Durkin, and Christine E. Cronk
The National Children's Study, Waukesha Country, Wisconsin, Vanguard Center, Jeanne B. Hewitt, Steven R. Leuthner, Marianne Weiss, David Whelan, Leslie Athey, Jane A. McElroy, Maureen S. Durkin, and Christine E. Cronk
Peripheral Blood Pressure Changes Induced by Dobutamine Do Not Alter BOLD Signals in The Human Brain, Heng Liu, Charles Rainey, Kathryn K. Lauer, Linda B. Piacentine, Alan S. Bloom, Robert C. Risinger, B. Douglas Ward, Elliot Stein, and Shi-Jiang Li
Conjugated Linoleic Acid Preserves Muscle Mass in Mice Bearing the Lewis Lung Carcinoma, but not the B16 Melanoma, Donna O. McCarthy and Erin Graves
Matching a Graduate Curriculum in Public/Community Health Nursing to Practice Competencies: The Rush University Experience, Susan M. Swider, Pamela F. Levin, Sarah Ailey, Susan Breakwell, Julia M. Cowell, Diane McNaughton, and Marilyn O'Rourke
Psychometric Properties of the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale, Marianne Weiss and Linda Piacentine
Validity and Reliability of the Perceived Readiness for Discharge After Birth Scale, Marianne Weiss, Polly Ryan, and Lisa Lokken
Submissions from 2005
Basal Body Temperature Assessment: Is It Useful to Couples Seeking Pregnancy?, Mary Lee Barron and Richard Fehring
Adaptation to Cesarean Birth: Implementation of an International Multisite Study, Jacqueline Fawcett, Cynthia Aber, Marianne Weiss, Susan Haussler, Sheila Taylor Myers, Charlette King, Jennifer Newton, and Virginia Silva
Attitudes, Intentions, and Ethical Stance of Advanced Practice Nursing Students toward Abortion Provision: Part One B Quantitative Findings, Richard Fehring
New Low- and High-Tech Calendar Methods of Family Planning, Richard Fehring
Protocol for Determining Fertility While Breastfeeding and Not in Cycles, Richard Fehring, Mary Lee Barron, and Mary Schneider
Changing the Tide: An Internet/Video Exercise and Low Fat Diet Intervention with Middle School Students, Marilyn Frenn, Shelly Malin, Roger L. Brown, Yvonne Greer, Jaime Fox, Jennifer Greer, and Sarah Smyczek
Determinants of Physical Activity and Low-Fat Diet Among Low Income African American and Hispanic Middle School Students, Marilyn Frenn, Shelly Malin, Antonia M. Villarruel, Kimberly Slaikeu, Stephanie McCarthy, Joan Freeman, and Erinn Nee
Conjugated Linoleic Acid Preserves Muscle Mass in Mice Bearing the Colon-26 Adenocarcinoma, Erin Graves, Andrew Hitt, Michael W. Pariza, Mark E. Cook, and Donna O. McCarthy
Medical Students' Knowledge of Midwifery Practice After Didactic and Clinical Exposure, Lisa Hanson, Jackie Tillett, and Russell S. Kirby
Indomethacin Preserves Muscle Mass and Reduces Levels of E3 Ligases and TNF Receptor Type 1 in the Gastrocnemius Muscle of Tumor-Bearing Mice, Andrew Hitt, Erin Graves, and Donna O. McCarthy
Psychometric Evaluation of the Shared Care Instrument in a Sample of Home Health Care Family Dyads, Margaret Sebern
Shared Care, Elder and Family Member Skills Used to Manage Burden, Margaret Sebern
Shared Care Instrument, Margaret Sebern
Submissions from 2004
The Future of Professional Education in Natural Family Planning, Richard Fehring
A Comparison of the Fertile Phase As Determined by the Clearplan Easy Fertility Monitor™ and Self-Assessment of Cervical Mucus, Richard Fehring, Kathleen Raviele, and Mary Schneider
Southeast Asian refugee children: Self-esteem as a predictor of depression and scholastic achievement in the U.S., Patricia G. Fox, Kenneth R. Burns, Judith M. Popovich, Ruth Belknap, and Marilyn Frank-Stromborg
Conducting Life History Research With Adolescents, Kristin Haglund
Dietary Recommendations: Where Are We Now?, Donna O. McCarthy
Indomethacin and Ibuprofen Preserve Gastrocnemius Muscle Mass in Mice Bearing the Colon26 Adenocarcinoma, Donna O. McCarthy, Pamela Whitney, Andrew Hitt, and Sadeeka Al-Majid
Psychometric Testing of the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index, Barbara Riegel, Beverly Carlson, Debra K. Moser, Margaret Sebern, Frank D. Hicks, and Virginia Roland
Couples' Views of the Effects of Natural Family Planning on Marital Dynamics, Leona VandeVusse, Lisa Hanson, Richard Fehring, Amy Newman, and Jaime Fox
The Wisconsin Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Screening Project, Marianne E. Weiss, Christine E. Cronk, Sandra Mahkorn, Randall Glysch, and Sara Zirbel
Length of Stay after Vaginal Birth: Sociodemographic and Readiness-for-Discharge Factors, Marianne E. Weiss, Polly Ryan, Lisa Lokken, and Magdalen Nelson
Submissions from 2003
Te Contaria Mi Vida: I Would Tell You My Life, if Only You Would Ask, Ruth Belknap and Pilar Sayeed
Teaching, Practice, and Research: An Integrative Approach Benefiting Students and Faculty, Jacqueline Fawcett, Cynthia Aber, and Marianne Weiss
An Analysis of the Majority Report “Responsible Parenthood” and its Recommendations on Abortion, Sterilization and Contraception, Richard Fehring
The Benefits of Nurse-Led Secondary Prevention Clinics for Coronary Heart Disease Continued After 4 Years, a commentary, Marilyn Frenn
Diet and Exercise in Low Income, Culturally Diverse Middle School Students, Marilyn Frenn and Shelly Malin
Stage Based Interventions for Low Fat Diet with Middle School Students, Marilyn Frenn, Shelly Malin, and Naveen K. Bansal
The Perceived Value of Certification by Certified Perioperative Nurses, Kathleen B. Gaberson, Kathryn Schroeter, Aileen R. Killen, and Wendelny A. Valentine
Change in Quality of Life from Before to After Discharge Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation, Kathleen L. Grady, Peter M. Meyer, Annette Mattea, Diane K. Dressler, Sophia Ormaza, Connie White-Williams, Suzanne Chillcott, Annemarie Kaan, Alice Loo, Barbara Todd, Annette Klemme, William Piccione, and Maria Rosa Costanzo
Sexually Abstinent African American Adolescent Females' Descriptions of Abstinence, Kristin Haglund
Rh Negative Status and Isoimmunization Update: A Case-Based Approach to Care, Kathryn Shisler Harrod, Lisa Hanson, Leona VandeVusse, and Patricia Heywood
Localization of Transfected B7-1 (CD-80) in Human Melanoma Cells after Particle Mediated Gene Transfer, Donna O. McCarthy
Rethinking Nutritional Support for Persons with Cancer Cachexia, Donna O. McCarthy
Editorial: Are you a prime mover?, Kathryn Schroeter
Donation after Cardiac Death: The Reinvention of a Forgotten Procedure, Gloria Taylor, Karen Samartan, and Kathryn Schroeter
Submissions from 2002
Altered Expression of Skeletal Muscle Myosin Isoforms in Cancer Cachexia, Gary M. Diffee, Katherine Kalfas, Sadeeka Al-Majid, and Donna O. McCarthy
Stature at Time of Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, John H. DiLiberti, Koryn Carver, Elaine Parton, Joan P. Totka, Gail Mick, and Kenneth McCormick
Accuracy of the Peak Day of Cervical Mucus as a Biological Marker of Fertility, Richard Fehring
Holistic Nursing Care: A Church and University Join Forces, Richard Fehring and Marilyn Frenn
Spiritual Responses to the Regulation of Birth (A Historical Comparison), Richard Fehring and Elizabeth McGraw
Dietary Supplementation with Conjugated Linoleic Acid Does Not Improve Nutritional Status of Tumor-Bearing Rats, Donna O. McCarthy
Rearing the Child Who is Technology Dependent: Perceptions of Parents and Home Care Nurses, Maureen O'Brien and Carole B. Wegner
Ethics in Perioperative Practice—Patient Advocacy, Kathryn Schroeter
Resolving the Uncertainty of Preterm Symptoms: Women’s Experiences With the Onset of Preterm Labor, Marianne E. Weiss, Nancy P. Saks, and Susan Harris
Submissions from 2001
Nurse-Midwives’ Knowledge and Promotion of Lactational Amenorrhea and Other Natural Family-Planning Methods for Child Spacing, Richard Fehring, Lisa Hanson, and Joseph B. Stanford
Trends in Contraceptive Use Among Catholics in the United States: 1988-1995, Richard Fehring and Andrea Schlidt
The Theater of Birth: Scenes from Women's Scripts, Lisa Hanson, Leona VandeVusse, and Kathryn Shisler Harrod
Cancer-Induced Fatigue and Skeletal Muscle Wasting: The Role of Exercise, Donna O. McCarthy
Resistance Exercise Training Attenuates Wasting of the EDL Muscle in Mice Bearing the Colon-26 Adenocarcinoma, Donna O. McCarthy
Living in a house of cards: Family experiences with long-term childhood technology dependence, Maureen O'Brien
Physical Activity Research in Nursing, Lorraine B. Robbins, Nola J. Pender, Vicki S. Conn, Marilyn Frenn, Geri B. Neuberger, Mary A. Nies, Robert V. Topp, and JoEllen Wilbur
Integrating Research into Practice: How Nurses in Wisconsin Use Research to Ensure Best Practice, Chris Van Mullem, Laura Burke, Kari Dohmeyer, Marie Farrell, Sue Harvey, Laura John, Carolyn Kraly, Fran Rowley, Margaret Sebern, Kerry Twite, and Roberta Zapp
Submissions from 2000
Collaborative Institutional Research, Marilyn Bratt
Influence of Stress and Nursing Leadership on Job Satisfaction of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Nurses, Marilyn Meyer Bratt, Marion Broome, Sheryl Talcott Kelber, and Lynne Lostocco
Anthropological Differences between Contraception and Natural Family Planning, Richard Fehring and William Kurz
Parenting a Second Time Around: An Ethnography of African American Grandmothers Parenting Grandchildren Due to Parental Cocaine Abuse, Kristin Haglund
Relationship Between Scholastic and Health Behaviors and Reading Level in Adolescent Females, Steven C. Matson and Kristin Haglund
Cytokines and the Anorexia of Infection: Potential Mechanisms and Treatments, Donna O. McCarthy
Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha and Interleukin-6 Have Differential Effects on Food Intake and Gastric Emptying in Fasted Rats, Donna O. McCarthy
Antigenicity of Human Melanoma Cells Transfected to Express the B7-1 Co-Stimulatory Molecule (CD80) Varies with the Level of B7-1 Expression, Donna O. McCarthy, Nicole Glowacki, Kathleen Schell, Carol A. Emler, and Mark R. Albertini
Through the Eye of the Beholder: Multiple Perspectives on Quality in Women's Health Care, Jaynelle F. Stichler and Marianne E. Weiss
Evaluation of Online Course Discussions: Faculty Facilitation of Active Student Learning, Leona VandeVusse and Lisa Hanson
Submissions from 1999
Concept Maps: A Strategy to Teach and Evaluate Critical Thinking, Barbara J. Daley, Christine Shaw, Toni Balistrieri, Kate Glasenapp, and Linda Piacentine
A Mediterrannean Type Diet Reduced all Cause and Cardiac Mortality After a First Myocardial Infarction, a commentary, Marilyn Frenn
Exercise and Nutrition: What Adolescents Think is Important, Marilyn Frenn
Chronic Conditions: Symptom Management, Myra M. Hurt and Maureen O'Brien
Inhibitors of Prostaglandin Synthesis Do Not Improve Food Intake or Body Weight of Tumor-Bearing Rats, Donna O. McCarthy
The Effect of Nutritional Supplements on the Food Intake of Radiotherapy Patients, Donna O. McCarthy and D Weihofen
Commentary on “Mothers’ Experiences Caring for Children with Disabilities who Require a Gastrostomy Tube”, Maureen O'Brien
Commentary on “Planning Educational Services for Children Who Are Ventilator Assisted”, Maureen O'Brien
Strategic Planning for Research Use in Nursing Practice, Chris Van Mullem, Laura Burke, Kari Dohmeyer, Marie Farrell, Sue Harvey, Laura John, Carolyn Kraly, Fran Rowley, Margaret Sebern, Kerry Twite, and Roberta Zapp
Submissions from 1998
Religiosity and Sexual Activity Among Older Adolescents, Richard Fehring, Kerry H. Cheever, Karyn German, and Connie Philpot
Evaluation of the Lady Free Biotester® in Determining the Fertile Period, Richard Fehring and Nancy Gaska
Accuracy of the Ovulon Fertility Monitor to Predict and Detect Ovulation, Richard Fehring and William D. Schlaff
Health Promotion: Theoretical Perspectives and Clinical Applications, Marilyn Frenn
Medium-Chain Compared to Long-Chain Triacylglycerol Emulsions Improve Macrophage Response and Increase Mucosal Mass in Parenterally-Fed Rats, Donna O. McCarthy
Relationship of social Support to Stress Responses and Immune Function in Healthy and Asthmatic Adolescents, Donna O. McCarthy