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Dr. Heather K. Spence Laschinger

Past Students

COMPLETED STUDENTS (PAST 5 Years)
(see Curriculum Vitae for comprehensive list)
* = Committee Member

STUDENT

DEGREE

THESIS TITLE

Students Completed in 2010

Patrick, A.

PhD (Nursing)

Empowerment and Clinical leadership among staff nurses.

*Lethbridge, K.

PhD (Nursing)

Nursing student empowerment and critical thinking self-efficacy.

*Babenko-Mould, Y.

PhD (Nursing)

Effects of clinical instructors' empowerment on nursing students' empowerment and self-efficacy for nursing practice.

Saldua-Toomath, J.

MScN (Nursing)

Role ambiguity, empowerment and job satisfaction among Ontario’s oncology advanced practice nurses.

*Smith, L.

MScN (Nursing)

Effects of Workplace Incivility and Empowerment of Newly-Graduated Nurses’ Organizational Commitment.

*Squires, M.

PhD (Nursing)

The influence of perceived fairness and relational leadership on patient safety and nursing work environment.

*Davies, A.

MScN (Nursing)

Nurses’ participation in personal knowledge transfer: The role of leader-member exchange and structural empowerment.

Students Completed in 2009

*Almost, J.

PhD (Nursing)
University of Toronto

Conflict in nursing work environments.

*Stutsky, B.

PhD (Nursing)
Nova Southeastern University

Empowerment and leadership development in an online-story-based learning community.

Gilbert, S.

MSc (Health and Rehabilitation Sciences)

Empowerment, burnout, and organizational citizenship behaviours in Canadian healthcare professionals.

Students Completed in 2008

*Vyn, T.

MScN (Nursing)

Generational perspectives on the work environment of nurses across Canada.

Faulkner, J.

MScN (Nursing)

The relationships among leader empowering behaviours, workplace empowerment, nurse-physician collaboration and respect in acute care nurses.

Students Completed in 2007

Armstrong, K.

MScN (Nursing)

Empowerment, professional practice characteristics, and patient safety climate: Testing Kanter's theory.

Lucas, V

MScN (Nursing)

The impact of span of control on manager leadership style and staff nurse empowerment. (Funded by STT Iota Omicron).

Young-Ritchie, C

MScN (Nursing)

The effects of emotionally intelligent leadership behaviour on emergency staff nurses’ workplace empowerment and organizational commitment. (Funded by RNAO NRIG and National Emergency Nurses Affiliation).

Students Completed in 2006

*Hollingsworth, E.

MScN (Nursing)

Registered nurses self-efficacy for assessing and responding to woman abuse in emergency department settings.

*Frizzell, S.

MScN (Nursing)

The effect of effort-reward imbalance and work-family conflict on the health of nurses.

Students Completed in 2005

Greco, P.

MScN (Nursing)

The effects of leader empowering behaviours on staff nurses' empowerment and work engagement. (Funded by RNAO NRIG)

Cho, J.

MScN (Nursing)

Workplace empowerment, work engagement and organizational commitment of new graduate nurses. (Funded by RNAO NRIG and STT Iota Omicron).