Research Awards & Grants

Complete Applications Include:

1. Abstract: succinctly describe every major aspect of the grant: what, why, and how (Performance measure, Patient Safety, CPG, AUC, etc.).
2. Specific Aims: What are you doing?
3. Background and Significance: Why are you doing this?
4. Preliminary Studies and Results: What you have already done and how did you do it?
5. Research Design and Methods: How you plan to do the research, why you are doing it this way, when and where you are doing it, how you will analyze the data?
6. Budget Justification: personnel, equipment, software, travel costs, etc.

• Applicant must be a member in good standing. 
• Proposed projects should be limited to quality and patient safety initiatives and related advocacy, such as performance measures, patient safety checklists, appropriate use criteria, clinical practice guidelines, and any derivatives. 
• The suggested project must fit within an area of importance to the membership of POSNA.