Staff Development Grants

The H.W. Wilson Library Staff Development Grant Application

An annual award consisting of $3,500 and a 24k gold-framed citation given to a library organization whose application demonstrates greatest merit for a program of staff development designed to further the goals and objectives of the library organization.

Staff development is defined as:

"a program of learning activities that is developed by the library organization and develops the on-the-job staff capability and improves the abilities of personnel to contribute to the overall effectiveness of the library organization."

Donated by the H.W. Wilson Company.

A library organization is defined as:

individual library
library system
group of cooperating libraries
state governmental agency
local, state, or regional association
Grant application
Please send six (6) copies of this application and supporting material to:

ALA Awards Program
Governance Office
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611

DEADLINE: POSTMARKED BY DECEMBER 1

Patient Safety Grants for Hospitals, Healthcare Systems and Clinics

This year, the Cardinal Health Foundation will award $1 million in grant funds to support initiatives by healthcare institutions which provide direct patient care to enhance patient safety and quality of care. The Cardinal Health Foundation will issue grants up to $50,000 commensurate with the scope of the patient safety project.

In 2007, the review committee awarded 34 grants averaging $30,000 per grant.

Please submit online the organization’s patient safety grant letter of intent by Friday, October 31, 2008. Hard copy or email proposals will not be accepted. Letters of intent received after this deadline will not be considered.

Visit the following link to submit the letter of intent in a PDF or Word document. Only these two formats will be accepted.

www.cardinalhealth.com/community

Following review of the letters of intent submitted under the Cardinal Health Patient Safety Grant Program, those selected by our external review committee, comprised of clinicians and clinical experts, will be invited to submit a full proposal. Invitations to select organizations will be extended on Monday, January 12, 2009 with a final proposal deadline of Friday, February 20, 2009. Grant awards will be announced in Spring 2009.

The primary criteria for the awarding of these grants will be that they address one of the National Quality Forum’s seven priority areas (www.qualityforum.org). The Foundation is especially interested in the following two areas in 2009:

Eliminating healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), specifically MRSA (methicillin-resistant 1. staphylococcus aureus) and
C. difficile infection prevention and management; with the goal of taking ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), surgical site infections (SSI) and blood site infections (BSI) to zero.

Medication safety and reconciliation. These initiatives can range from prescribing correct medication to ensuring the right 2. medication gets to the right patient at the right time and assuring information is communicated and understood at key transition points. Use of technology is encouraged.

About AMDA Foundation/Evercare® Awards

ImageIn 2008, the AMDA Foundation partnered with Evercare to create the AMDA Foundation/Evercare® Awards for “Improving the Quality of Life for Persons Living in Nursing Homes” awards program. The three awards were presented at the AMDA Symposium in Salt Lake City on March 6, 2008. The 2009 AMDA Foundation//Evercare® Awards will be presented at the national AMDA Symposium in Charlotte, NC, March 5-8, 2009.

These awards will be based on programs nursing facilities have implemented and demonstrated to improve the quality of life for their long term care residents. Three awards of $10,000 each will be provided. At least one of the awards will be given specifically for improved advanced care planning and/or palliative care programs. The three facilities chosen for the award are expected to present a scientific poster of their quality improvement program at the 2009 AMDA Annual Symposium in Charlotte, NC. In addition, one program will be chosen to give an oral presentation at the Annual Symposium.

Types of programs might include:

* Patient safety initiatives – reducing falls, medication errors
* Reduction of avoidable ER visits and acute hospitalizations
* Improved consistency of staffing
* Improved comprehensive advanced care planning
* Improved palliative care programs

All nursing home facilities are eligible for the awards. Facilities may be for profit or not for profit and/or individual facility, regional chain, or national chain. In order for the program to be eligible, the program must be internally generated and funded by the nursing home facility; have demonstrated measurable outcomes and objectives and have proven sustainability and ability to be replicated in other facilities.
Applying Online - The application deadline is November 10, 2008. All completed applications must be submitted electronically. To submit your online application you'll need to first attend to the following preparation:

Document Uploads

The 2009 AMDA Foundation/Evercare® Awards Online Application requires that you also obtain, complete as necessary and upload the following documents:

* Current copy of state/federal survey results;
* Letter of Support from the medical director for the facility/institution;
* A completed AMDA Foundation/Evercare® Awards Project Proposal; and
* A completed AMDA Foundation/Evercare® Awards Detailed Budget.

Documents of the following types are acceptable for uploading: ms-word; pdf; rtf; ms-excel; ms-powerpoint; ms-works; text; and zip. Documents for uploading must not exceed 6,144KB in size (6 megabytes).

American Medical Directors Association Foundation
11000 Broken Land Parkway, Suite 405
Columbia MD 21044

Telephone: 410-992-3134
Fax: 410-740-1318

The American Medical Directors Association Foundation and Pfizer have partnered to sponsor the Quality Improvement Awards, a program designed to encourage the development of innovative projects that will help to make a distinct impact on the quality of long term care.

Types of Projects Supported

The Awards will support initiatives that focus on facility staff education, quality improvement programs, research on interventions and treatment, and health literacy to directly enhance the quality of care provided to patients in Long Term Care settings.

Proposals may be submitted for a general Quality Improvement project or in any one of the five therapeutic areas listed below. The therapeutic areas are: pain management, dementia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, or urinary incontinence.

Education

* Proposals in this category should focus on facility staff education and/or training programs.
Due to a current Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant on assessment of Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) implementation, the Foundation will not fund projects related to implementation of AMDA CPGs.

Quality Improvement Programs

* Proposals should focus on training and mentoring facilities or organizations in continuous quality improvement (CQI) or specific QI projects covering areas of interest to the Foundation.

Research Projects

* Research projects should be approximately one year in length and conducted in a single facility. Results should be generalizable.
* Examples could include an investigation into the characteristics of residents in the long term care setting whose weight loss is unavoidable, or a study looking at critical factors with hearing aid use.

Health Literacy

* Health literacy projects should focus on ways to enhance improving healthcare communications between long term care patients and their family/caregivers/surrogates. Devising such systems are particularly important given the diminished literacy skills, cognitive capacity and communication skills of many long term care residents, especially those with dementia.
* Examples could include projects that focus on the following: innovative ways to communicate given literacy and functional limitations (e.g., cognitive impairment, hearing or vision loss); different strategies for communicating given technological advances (e.g., e-mail, video-conferencing); and, methods of communicating with patients and families surrounding functional and disease-focused issues, taking into consideration diminished literacy skills and cultural differences.

Awards
Awards of $10,000-$15,000 each will be made to three winners in this competition to support their projects. Two awards will support Quality Improvement projects focusing on one of the five therapeutic areas, and the third award will support a General Quality Improvement project. Awards are intended to cover salary support, consultant fees, materials, and travel to the AMDA Annual Symposium to present project results.

Application Procedure

The application deadline is October 31, 2008. The AMDA Foundation/Pfizer QI Application must be completed and submitted online through our online application process. Note that registration is required since this online application involves submitting and uploading documents in electronic form.

AMDA Foundation.
11000 Broken Land Parkway · Suite 405 · Columbia, MD 21044
Phone: 410-992-3134 · Fax: 410-740-1318

Multidisciplinary Cancer Education Grant

Supported by Meniscus Limited

Awards: One annual grant of $3,000 sponsored by Meniscus Limited

Purpose: To provide seed money to support an oncology RN in developing and/or implementing a cancer related multidisciplinary education or practice project for healthcare professionals. Priority will be given to those projects that focus on survivorship.

Multidisciplinary education – education that involves/impacts more than one discipline of the healthcare team as planners and recipients of the program. More than one healthcare discipline must be involved in the planning of the program and more than one discipline must be the targeted audience for the program. (Example: Nurses and pharmacists work together to plan and implement an education program on pain management for patients with cancer. Attendees (target audience) of the program may be nurses, pharmacists, physicians, and physical therapists).
Selection Criteria:
To be eligible for the award:

Applicant must be employed as an oncology nurse for a minimum of 1 year.
Multidisciplinary program or project may be new or one in progress for future implementation (preference given towards those programs that affect cancer survivorship).
Demonstrate that the impact of the program is on more than one discipline within the multidisciplinary health care team
NOTE: An individual cannot receive this award more than one time.

Application deadline: December 1, 2008

Oncology Nursing Society Foundation
125 Enterprise Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15275
866-257-4ONS
412-859-6100
877-369-5497 (toll free fax)
412-859-6163 (fax)
E-mail: foundation@ons.org
Web site: www.onsfoundation.org

2009 AASLD NP/PA Clinical Hepatology Fellowship Program

Application Deadline: February 13, 2009
Recipient Notification: April 2009
Fellowship Period: July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010

Application coming soon!

Award Description
The AASLD NP/PA Clinical Hepatology Fellowship Program provides $78,000 in salary and benefit support for certified and licensed Physician Assistants (PA) or Nurse Practitioners (NP) pursuing a full-year of training focused on clinical care in hepatology and is designed to:

Increase the number of mid-level practitioners in clinical hepatology.
Facilitate the transition (or shift in emphasis) into clinical hepatology for mid-level practitioners.
Increase access for liver disease patients to adequately trained clinicians.

Questions? Contact Denise Davis or Kristin Hutcherson via email at awards@aasld.org or by phone at 703-299-9766.

Excellence in Nutrition Support Education

The purpose of this $1,000 cash award, given annually, is to recognize one nutrition support educator’s excellence in the delivery of professional education. The award is open to A.S.P.E.N. members who have teaching responsibilities in an academic, community, or other supervised training session. Criteria and eligibility requirements are now available.

American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.)
8630 Fenton Street, Suite 412, Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-587-6315; fax 301-587-2365; aspen@nutr.org

The American Retina Foundation has begun to accept grant applications for programs and educational initiatives related to AMD and other neovascular diseases. Grants will be made in the amount $10,000 or less.

Research Grants
To be considered for this type of grant the research must be related to original research in macular degeneration. Applications will be received on an ongoing basis and will be reviewed by the Research Fund Committee as well as the ARF board. These small grants will be awarded in amounts between $5,000-15,000. As part of your acceptance of this grant the American Retina Foundation shall be entitled to receive a royalty from any commercial application resulting from the success of the research. This amount is 2% of the profitable proceeds collected and funds shall be given to the Foundation as an unrestricted donation.

Medical Education Grants

Grants will be considered for educational activities in the therapeutic areas of Age-related Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, or Neovascular Eye Disease. Grants must meet submission criteria assigned by the American Retina Foundation grants review committee prior to being accepted for funding. Educational grants will only be accepted for CME or CE certified activities approved by and accredited provider of continuing education. Grants in this area will be awarded in the amount of $10,000 or less.

Community Outreach Grants

Grants are made for community outreach programs in the areas of Age-related Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, or Neovascular eye disease. Funding will be used to develop educational materials for patients and the public. Community outreach grants will only be considered if the requester is a nonprofit organization or if the activity is sponsored by a nonprofit organization. Grants in this area will be awarded in the amount of $10,000 or less.

ARF staff members are available to answer your specific questions by phone at 904-998-0356, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, from 9am until 5pm Eastern Time, via email at abeamer@americanretina.org.

American Physical Therapy Association Section Clinical Educator Award

Purpose:
To recognize a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant for outstanding work as a clinical
educator in the geriatric health care setting.
Rationale:
A student's experience in the clinical setting during short and long term affiliations has a significant and
profound impact on the student' s perception of clinical practice and desire to work in that setting in the
future. A Clinical Instructor (CI) can be the one individual most responsible for creating a meaningful and
valued affiliation experience for the individual student. To be effective in this role, the CI must be an
advocate for rehabilitation of the older adult as well as a successful educator. To accomplish the latter,
the CI must be as committed to knowing the student and his/her learning objectives as the CI is to
knowing patient's treatment objectives. The CI must also demonstrate creativity in designing the
affiliation experiences; willingness to learn with the student; openness to giving and receiving constructive
criticism; and knowledge of the developments in adult education and care of the older adult.
Criteria:
To be eligible for this award, the nominee must:
1. Be a current member of the Section on Geriatrics;
2. Be an advocate for student programs and opportunities for students to complete a fulfilling
educational experience;
3. Be an advocate for older adults and a role model for excellence in physical therapy practice;
4. Have been involved in geriatric clinical practice settings for a minimum of 5 years;
5. Demonstrate innovation and leadership in clinical education and outstanding quality of care in
multidisciplinary teamwork.
Nomination Process:
Any current member of the Section on Geriatrics may nominate a physical therapist or physical therapist
assistant who meets the award criteria.
Nomination packets should be submitted electronically as one complete document, and include:
1. One letter of nomination, addressed to the Awards Committee, describing how the nominee meets
the criteria;
2. One (1) letter from a former student and no more than three (3) letters from additional students
and/or colleagues, describing how the nominee has demonstrated the criteria;
3. A copy of the nominee's current resume or CV.
Complete nomination packets must be received by the Awards Committee by November 1 of each year.
Selection Process:
Nominations will be reviewed by at least three members of the Awards Committee. The Chair of the
Awards Committee will notify the Section Board of Directors of the committee's selection.
Presentation:
The award will be presented following the Business Meeting during APTA Combined Sections Meeting,
usually held in February of each year. The award will consist of a certificate, an engraved award, and a
$200 award.
Mail nominations to: geriatrics@apta.org, Questions? 800/999-2782 x3238