WNRCASN Education Innovation Grant Application

    Project Leader's Name

    Project Leader's credentials
    Include Degrees and Fellowships

    Project Leader's Educational Institution
    Name of your university, college, or school of nursing

    Employment Position / Title
    For example: Assistant Professor, Instructor, Lecturer, Director, Dean, etc.

    Email for Project Leader
    All communication will be with the Project Leader

    Preferred Phone
    Number May be an office, home, or cell - whatever # we may best reach you at.

    Mailing Address for Project Leader
    All communication will be with the Project Leader

    City

    Province or Territory

    Postal Code

    Team Member #1 Name
    Up to 3 Team Members may be named here. If additional names need to be added, there is an upload button below to upload a WORD document with all of the team's names and affiliations.

    Team Member #1 Educational Institution
    Name of university, college, or school of nursing

    Team Member #2 Name

    Team Member #2 Educational Institution

    Team Member #3 Name

    Team Member #3 Educational Institution

    Additional Team Members Names and Institutional Affiliations Upload a WORD or PDF document with any additional Team Members' names and affiliations. The maximum file upload size is 3MB.

    Your WNRCASN Membership must be Active and Current. If the Project Leader or any Team Members are not Active WNRCASN members at the time the application is reviewed, the application will be disqualified. *Except for multidisciplinary team members
    Have you verified that all appropriate members of the research team are Active and Current members of WNRCASN?

    Project Title

    Is the project part of the Project Leader’s (or any participants’) work for graduate school? If yes, please describe how the project is related to the student’s program.

    Please upload the Part B Proposal file here Please upload 1 WORD document. The maximum file upload size is 8MB.

    * In a separate WORD document that you may upload above, please compose the following sections related to your education innovation project. Please limit the project proposal to a maximum of 5 pages (not including the timeline and budget or the references).  The timeline and budget should be kept to 1 additional page and the references may be up to 5 additional pages. The Part B Proposal document is to be single spaced, 12 point font with 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins. It is recommended that applicants use the title of the innovation project as a header on all documents with page numbers UNLESS the title includes a school name or other identifiable information. In that case, please use a Running Title that does not include indentifiable information. 

    ** All proposals will undergo a blinded review by two separate reviewers. Please remove any institutional names from the title and from the text. For example: The University of Canada Project may be referred to as: The BLANK UNIVERSITY Project.

    Referring to a particular researcher at your institution that would identify you or your institution should also be blanked. For example: Previous published work by the project leader has informed the framework for this project (BLANK, 2017).

    *** References / Works Cited for project team members are to be submitted with the same identity scrubbing as indicated above. For example: BLANK, X (2017). Title of the paper. Journal, Vol(iss), pp

    **** The Rubric the reviewers will use is posted on the website.

    Your Proposal should include:

    1. Project Proposal (5 Pages Max)

    a. Abstract

    b. Description of the project (be clear and concise)

    c. Purpose of the project

    d. Literature review

    e. Significance of the project – a statement of the relevance and potential contribution to nursing education.

    f. Ethical considerations (if applicable)

    2. Budget 1 Page shared with the Timeline in addition to the 5 page max. Please provide a detailed budget of the project. Personnel and materials (software, etc.) are allowable expenses. Office overhead (rent) and teaching release are not allowable expenses.  Please be specific with dollar amounts for each line item.  The budget should explain how you plan to use the $5000 award. If you are anticipating other sources of funding, please include those in your budget.

    3. Timeline for Project 1 page shared with the Budget in addition to the 5 pages maximum.

    2. References –  These may be formatted in APA or some other recognized format. References are in addition to the 5 page limit.

    Page Limits

    A total of 5 pages maximum for the Proposal (#1a to 1f above) and 1 additional page that contains the Budget and Timeline. If needed, the Budget and Timeline may each be a page.  Up to 5 additional pages for the reference list. Appendices may be attached as long as they clarify questions the reviewers may have about your project (example: the questionnaire proposed) but may not include information that relates directly to the Proposal criteria (#1a to 1f above).

    Be sure your document has the name of the project as a header on all pages, with page numbers.  Document naming should not use authors’ or school of nursing names as the identities of the authors and their school affiliations need to be blinded from the reviewers.

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