Small Grants Program Receives Approval for Funding – APPLY NOW!
The Board of the EMPSF recently approved funding for a small grants program which was created to assist ED practitioners with their development of innovative ideas and strategies to improve quality and advance safety in the Emergency Department.
The purpose of this program is to stimulate and provide funding for small projects done by clinicians or administrators who are seeking to:
- Advance quality through patient safety initiatives
- Focus quality efforts specifically on practitioners working in the Emergency Department or ancillary staff necessary to support the care of the patient in the ED
- Describe evidence based practice which has been proven to improve emergency medicine patient safety
- Advance improvements within direct patient care,service, quality and / or operations
The description of your activity and the final reportwill be shared with your ED colleagues either on our website or in our annual newsletter. If your initiative meets the criteria, we may also ask you to assist us in developing formal teaching materials so that the strategies behind your success can be replicated. There will be no limit to the number of applications per individual or per organization. Grants will range from $500.00 – $1,000.00 each. Applications for the small grants program are available on our website here. The three page application is simple to complete and we are hopeful that we will identify between 10-15 projects to funds during the first year. We ask that the projects fit with EMPSF’s safety and quality objectives and focus on issues of interest or concern to EM providers or patients.
We also ask that the project scope be sufficiently narrow so that it can be completed within nine months. If you have any questions about the small grants program please contact Dianne Vass-Watson, Executive Director, EMPSF, at dvass@empsf.org or 888.294.4624.