Nursing/Pharmacy Collaboration Research Grant Application-March 1 Deadline

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Nursing/Pharmacy Collaboration Research GrantApplication-March 1 Deadline

For those of you who may have missed this announcement at www.NursingWorld.org, please be part of the solution and consider applying for the multidisciplinary grant to conduct research designed to study new processes and design characteristics that will improve the safety and effectiveness of the medication-use system in hospitals and health systems.

Applications for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Research and Education (ASHP) Foundation's Pharmacy/Nursing Partnership for Medication Safety Research Grant are now available to download. This program, sponsored by Omnicell, Inc., supports the collaboration of pharmacists and nurses in the conduct of research designed to study new processes and design characteristics that will improve the safety and effectiveness of the medication-use system in hospitals and health systems. The research team must be multidisciplinary in nature, and the principal investigators for the project must be a pharmacist and a nurse. A total of $80,000 is available and will be divided between one to three recipients. Applications must be submitted by March 1, 2005.

Please go to http://www.ashpfoundation.org/resear...Opp.cfm?id=101 to download application. Questions should be directed to Daniel J. Cobaugh, Director of Research, ASHP Foundation, 7272 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814; 301-664-8767.



Carol J. Bickford, PhD, RN,BC
Senior Policy Fellow
Department of Nursing Practice and Policy
American Nurses Association