ANCC Solicits Research Grant Applicants
Up to $10,000 to Support Research on Credentialing in Nursing
Silver Spring, MD - The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) is now accepting applications from registered nurses for the 2005 Margretta Madden Styles Credentialing Scholars Grant. To qualify, applicants must hold a registered nurse license and a baccalaureate or higher degree in nursing. Additionally, applications must be postmarked by September 30, 2005.
The Styles Grant Program is intended to build the evidence base on the impact of credentialing in nursing. This broad topic area encompasses credentialing via licensure, certification, accreditation, and other formal recognition programs such as ANCC's Magnet Recognition Program® for nursing excellence. Relevant research studies would examine, for example, the relationship of credentialing standards and processes to nurses' competence, professional practice, patient satisfaction, patient care and safety, or other quality outcomes in health care.
Margretta Madden Styles, PhD, RN, FAAN, in whose honor this grant program is named, has advocated nursing credentialing throughout her illustrious nursing career. She chaired the committee that issued the 1979 report, Study of Credentialing in Nursing: A New Approach, as well as the American Nurses Association's Commission on Organizational Assessment and Renewal, which recommended the development of ANCC. In 1986, Dr. Styles wrote Credentialing in Nursing: Contemporary Developments and Trends-USA within a World View. She also organized the position paper of the International Council of Nurses on credentialing.
ANCC will award the grant by December 1, 2005. Eligibility criteria and the application may be downloaded from the ANCC web site at www.nursecredentialing.org/inside/grants.html.
About ANCC
ANCC is the nation's leading nursing credentialing center, offering general and advanced practice certification in over 35 specialty areas. In addition, ANCC offers continuing nursing education contact hours and review course materials through its Institute for Credentialing Innovation, accredits organizations that offer or approve continuing education courses for registered nurses, and promotes excellence in nursing services through its Magnet Recognition Program®. Each ANCC program is offered on an international platform through the ANCC Credentialing International program. The American Nurses Credentialing Center is a related entity of the American Nurses Association.
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