Successful Strategies for Small Grant Funding for Advanced Practice Nurses

Abstract

Obtaining grant funding in order to answer clinical questions is a professional goal of many ad vanced practice nurses (APNs). Unitor service-based APNs may be called on to design and implemen t studies which investigate clinical questions, either as principal investigators, or as mentors t o staff nurses. This article identifies potential sources for small grant funding, provides a revi ew of essential components of grant proposal preparation, and describes successful strategies for obtaining grant funding for small-scale clinical inquiry and pilot work.