Dissertation
The culmination of a doctor of philosophy degree is a research study. After completing two years of core work in family and family related nursing research and nursing education, three years were spent in the design and implementation of a mixed methods research study on the knowledge levels of caregivers about child passenger safety. As one of the first 100 instructors in the nation for the Standardized Child Passenger Safety Curriculum and as a paramedic and emergency department nurse that had witnessed the results of inadequately restrained children, this topic became a driving force in my career.