Students and Alumni

Senior Thesis

One of the most exciting components of our undergraduate curriculum is the Senior Directed Research Thesis project. Students select a topic that is interesting to them and a year-long project is conducted that culminates into a community or professional teaching seminar, a significant research proposal or a research project. Creativity is encouraged as the student dives into contemporary interdisciplinary health care literature to provide the state of the science information. Our students have presented their research at the prestigious National Conference for Undergraduate Research and Bay Area nursing conferences. Topics have included:

• Teaching migrant farm workers TB prevention and preventative dental health
• Incidence and prevention of childhood obesity: Teaching in the elementary schools in Marin
• Nurses attitudes towards implementing integrative/complimentary medicine into daily nursing practice
• Emergency room nurses’ perceptions of national health care insurance on quality of care and accessibility of care
• Family members’ perceptions of integrated/complimentary pain control measures for children with cancer
• The effect of a mental algorithm on nursing student’s skill accuracy during adult codes in the simulation lab
• Religious and cultural influences to health care decision making