Grant Writing Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals

This accessible, hands-on text, for new grant writers and seasoned health researchers, educators, and clinicians alike, illuminates the process of writing a persuasive request for funding from start to finish. Packed with practical tips for dealing with common pitfalls besieging grant seekers, the text progresses step by step from establishing the need for the grant through disseminating grant findings. This third edition is distinguished by key information about newer grant mechanisms and a fresh focus for foundation and corporate grants. It also includes updates on electronic submissions and web resources.

Useful supporting features include examples and underlying principles for each guideline, examples of grants and specific elements that lend themselves to the development of PowerPoint slides for traditional or online classroom use, real-life examples from actual grant applications, and links to online resources to support searches for grant funders and websites supporting grant applications. Armed with savvy tips and advice from the authors―an experienced grant writer, grant reviewer, and grant consultant―readers will be able to write a persuasive grant with ease.

NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION:

• Top-notch grant writing guidance for all health professionals
• Information about newer grant mechanisms emphasizing community-based and patient-centered outcomes research grants
• Foundation and corporate grants focusing on population health, personalized health, and interprofessional team grants that include community collaborations and corporate partnerships
• Important information on the Patient-Centered Research Institute
• Guidance on how to involve stakeholders and communities in study design and implementation
• Updates on electronic submissions and web resources
• New coauthor who is a successful PCORI awardee
• Instructor’s PowerPoint slides

KEY FEATURES:

• Describes the process of writing a persuasive request for funding from start to finish
• Delivers practical tips from experienced authors for dealing with common pitfalls and difficulties
• Includes examples and underlying principles for each guideline
• Provides real-life examples from actual grant applications
• Helps readers to apply principles for selling and justifying the grant to their own proposals

Barbara J. Holtzclaw, PhD, RN, FAAN, is associate dean for research and professor, Earl and Fran Ziegler College of Nursing, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She also serves as doctoral faculty and associate director, Geriatric Nursing Translational Research Training, Donald W. Reynolds Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence.

Carole Kenner, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, ANEF, IDFCOINN is the Carol Kuser Loser Dean/Professor of the School of ­Nursing and Health Sciences at The College of New Jersey. Dr. Kenner received a ­bachelors of science in nursing from the University of Cincinnati and her master’s and doctorate in nursing from Indiana University. She specialized in neonatal/perinatal nursing for her master’s and obtained a minor in higher education for her doctorate. She has authored more than 200 journal articles and 40 textbooks. 

Marlene Walden, PhD, APRN, NNP-BC, CCNS, FAAN, is the nurse scientist manager for the department of nursing at Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas. She is also adjunct associate professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas.