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The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has awarded its first AACN Impact Research Grant to Ruth Kleinpell, PhD, RN-CS, FAAN, director, Center for Clinical Research, Rush University Medical Center, and professor, Rush University College of Nursing, both in Chicago.
Kleinpell will explore the impact of telemedicine on ICU nursing care with co-investigators from Sutter Health, Sacramento-Sierra region in California; Baptist Health South Florida, Miami; Resurrection Healthcare, Chicago; UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA; and Eastern Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME.
With support from the $50,000 AACN grant, the team will conduct a two-phase study that includes national benchmarking of a random sample of 350 nurses to identify the impact of telemedicine on nursing care, including barriers and benefits.
Kleinpell received AACN's 2010 Flame of Excellence Award for sustained regional and national contributions to acute and critical care nursing. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing; the American College of Critical Care Medicine.; and Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Additionally, she edited "Outcome Assessment in Advanced Practice Nursing," 2nd edition, which earned a 2009 Advanced Practice Nursing Book of the Year award from the American Journal of Nursing.
Read the following Kleinpell articles recently published in ADVANCE for Nurses.
AACN Impact Research Grants support clinical inquiry that drives change in high acuity and critical care nursing practice. Priority projects address gaps in clinical research at the organization or system level and translation of these findings to bedside clinicians. Projects include use of technology to assess patients and manage outcomes; ways to create a healing and humane environment; and processes and systems to optimize high acuity and critical care nursing.
AACN developed the Impact Research Grants in its ongoing effort to support clinical research for high acuity and critical care nursing. The association also continues to award the following grants annually: the AACN-Sigma Theta Tau Critical Care Grant for up to $10,000; as many as three AACN-Philips Medical Systems Outcomes Grants, up to $10,000 each; up to two
AACN-Edwards Lifesciences Nurse-driven Clinical Practice Outcomes Grants, up to $5,000 each; and the AACN Physio-Control Clinical Practice Grant for up to $1,500.
In 2012, AACN will award two Impact Research Grants, which will increase to three in 2013. The grants are available to established researchers and beginning researchers with mentors, and applicants may request up to $50,000 in total costs for a maximum of 3 years.
Principal investigators must be current AACN members. All AACN research grant applications must be submitted online by Oct. 1. For more information, including award criteria and supporting documents, visit www.aacn.org/grants or contact Linda Bell, AACN clinical practice specialist, at 800-394-5995, ext. 318.
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