Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist: Research

Research

Multiple research projects and opportunities exist for Students in the Psychiatric Mental Health Graduate Nursing Area of study.

Research Resources for Students:

Online resources for research at the University:

• Institutional Review Board (IRB): Site contains information about the protection of human subjects, the process of obtaining IRB approval for research studies, and downloadable IRB forms.
• Putting together a committeee: You can check to see if a potential committee member is eligible. Committee members must have Full Member (FM), Associate Member (AM), or Examiner (E) status. The Graduate Faculty Site allows you to check the status of any graduate faculty.
• Writing Resources: The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing offers links to online writing resources.

Capstone Project:

All students complete a Capstone Project. Examples of past and ongoing projects by our students include:

• The relationship between family caregiving behaviors for persons with mental illness and current grief response.
• Relationship between psychiatric clinical assessment scores and exposure of patients to daily activities.
• Violence related to psychiatric disorders in home care.
• Characteristics of adult psychiatric patients hospitalized for crisis management.
• Patient assault against nurses working in outpatient mental health centers.
• Grief responses in family members of persons with mental illness.
• The relationship between initial response to a diagnosis of mental illness in a family member and current grief response.
• A study of the smoking behaviors of nurses.
• An alternative intervention for psychiatric treatment: The implications of a partial hospitalization program on depressive symptoms and functioning level of adult patients.