NLN Announces 2024 Research Grants

NLN Announces 2024 Research Grants

Awards Presentation Will Be Held During the 2024 Education Summit in San Antonio, Texas

Washington, DC — The National League for Nursing proudly announces the recipients of the annual competitive scholarly research grants program, administered by the NLN/Chamberlain University College of Nursing Center for the Advancement of the Science of Nursing Education and funded by the League and NLN Foundation for Nursing Education. Formal presentation to the grant recipients will take place during the 2024 NLN Education Summit in San Antonio, Texas, on September 19 during the General Session at 11 a.m.

NLN Chair Patricia Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, Dean and Strawbridge Professor at the Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions at Ursuline College in Ohio, congratulated the scholars, saying, “The originality and rigor of their investigations are a testament to their dedication and determination to identify best evidence-based practices to transform nursing education for generations to come. We are proud to support these impressive scholarly endeavors.”

NLN President and CEO Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN said, “As the first national nursing organization to fund nursing education research, the National League for Nursing has a unique responsibility to advance evidence-based, innovative scientific inquiry in pursuit of transformative excellence. We also thank the dedicated scholars on the Scientific Research Review Board who make these tough selections from a competitive field of research grants applicants.”

2024 NLN Nursing Education Research Grants Recipients

Dorothy Otto Research Award

Project Title: Nurse Mentors’ Experiences of an Apprenticeship Model for Students in an Accelerated Undergraduate Nursing Program

Sheila Gentry, EdD, RN; Misty Smith, PhD, RN

University of Alabama-Huntsville

Award: $16,000

Ruth Donnelly Corcoran Research Award

Project Title: Nurse Faculty Workforce: An Investigation for Enhancing Capacity to Expand Equity and Advancement

Erica Moore, DNP, APRN, CRNA; Camille Brockett-Walker, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC

Emory University

Award: $30,000

Nancy Langston Research Award

Project Title: Addressing the Nursing Faculty Shortage: Exploring Effort-Reward Imbalance among Full-Time Nursing Faculty

Jacqueline Christianson, PhD, FNP-C, CNE; Jessica Leiberg, DNP, ACAGNP-BC; Jessica Zemlak, PhD, MSN, FNP-BC, RN; Kathryn Malin, PhD, RN, NNP-BC, APN; Lisa Grabert, MPH

Marquette University and University of Wisconsin

Award: $21,000

Mary Anne Rizzolo Research Award

Project Title: Virtual simulations to support responding to racism in clinical settings

Marian Luctkar-Flude, RN, PhD, CCSNE, FCNEI

Queens University

Award: $5,000

NLN Foundation Research Award

Project Title: Clinical Decision Making of Undergraduate Nursing Students Management of Medication Administration: A Verbal Protocol

Susan Irvine, PhD, RN, MN (Research), GadDipPalCare, GradCertHlthProfEd. NHET Simulation, DipAdminNurs; Lisa McKenna, PhD, RN, RM, Bed, GradDipHlthAdmin, GDLFAH, MEdStud. MBA; Kelley Mumford, BSc, MHSc, GadCertEd; Kellie Waine, RN, MN, GradCertEd, BHScNurs

Victoria University and La Trobe University

Award: $28,000

Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo Doctoral Research Award

Project Title: Technological Competency as Caring in Prelicensure Nursing Students in the United States – A National Survey Using the TCCNI-R

Clarissa Afable, MSN-NI, RN (doctoral candidate)

Nova Southeastern University

Award: $2,500

Recipients of Co-Sponsored Awards

NLN/Sigma Foundation for Nursing Diane Billings Research Award

Project Title: Exploring Anxiety and Noticing within Virtual Reality Nursing Simulation

Janet Reed, PhD, RN, CMSRN

Kent State University

Award: $5,000

NLN/Southern Nursing Research Society Doctoral Research Award

Project Title: Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Skill of Involvement: Differences in First Year ADN and BSN Nursing Students in Rural Oklahoma

Cynthia Keeton Brown, PhD, MSN, RN, BFA (doctoral candidate at time of submission)

Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College

Award: $5,000

For more information about the 2024 NLN Education Summit, including registration, visit Summit.NLN.org.

 

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