Clinical Nursing Practice Project Award

+ About the Project Awards

Stimulating new professional knowledge is an important goal of the Foundation.

The Tucson Nurses Week Foundation is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for the Clinical Nursing Practice Project Awards funded entirely by the Fabulous 50 Alumni. This honor will be awarded to a Tucson area Registered nurse who proposes to answer a clinical question or who creates an idea focused on improving patient care or nursing practice within their setting.

+ Online Application

+ View Past Project Awards

The Foundation must receive applications by January 15, 2010.

Applications will be evaluated based on relevance to nursing practice and/or use of evidence based practice methods.

All awards will be presented at the Fabulous 50 Gala. Recipients are expected to present the results of their project at the TNWF Showcase the following year.

+ Eligibility Criteria

• + Tucson area registered nurse
• + Documented approval of the project from the nurse's employer

+ Procedure

1. Describe the Project.
2. State the clinical problem or question.
3. Outline the plan for collecting evidence.
4. Explain the plan for evaluating the pertinence of the evidence collected.
5. Describe an intervention to address the problem/question.
6. Discuss how the effectiveness of the intervention will be evaluated.
7. Specify how the award money will be used.

+ How to Apply

• Clinical Nursing Practice Project Award Online Application