Emergency Medicine Foundation/ENAF Directed Team Grant ED Overcrowding Research Award

EMF/ENAF Directed Team Grant
ED Overcrowding Research Award

Description:
This request for proposals specifically targets research that is designed to investigate the topic of ED overcrowding. Proposals may focus on a number of related areas, including: definitions and outcome measures of ED overcrowding, causes and effects of ED overcrowding, and potential solutions to the problem of ED overcrowding. The applicants must provide evidence of a true collaborative effort between physician and nurse professionals and must delineate the relative roles of the participants in terms of protocol development, data collection, and manuscript preparation. Applications may be enhanced by inclusion of appropriate hospital administrative leaders.
Application Deadline: January 5, 2009

The Emergency Medicine Foundation and the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Foundation jointly award this grant to facilitate collaboration between the disciplines and to improve clinical research in emergency care. This grant is intended for physician and nurse researchers to combine their expertise to develop, plan, and implement clinical research in emergency care.
The EMF/ENAF Directed Team Grant ED Overcrowding Research Award program awards one $50,000 grant for research over a one year period.

PURPOSE OF THE EMF/ENAF DIRECTED TEAM GRANT ED OVERCROWDING RESEARCH AWARD

This grant exists because of the donation of funds by both the Emergency Medicine Foundation and the ENA Foundation. It was funded specifically to support work that arises from a true physician-nurse partnership in a clinical research area pertinent to the practice of emergency medicine. As such, the applicants must provide evidence of a true collaborative effort between physician and nurse professionals and must delineate the relative roles of the participants in terms of protocol development, data collection, and manuscript preparation.

This request for proposals specifically seeks research related to the topic of ED overcrowding. Proposals may focus on a number of related areas, including: definitions and outcome measures of ED overcrowding, causes and effects of ED overcrowding, and potential solutions to the problem of ED overcrowding.

ELIGIBILITY
Applications will be accepted from any emergency medicine physician/nurse team working full or part time in emergency care at any domestic, JCAHO-approved institution.

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