ANCC Solicits Grant Applicants

$5,000 Award Available To Doctoral Student for Credentialing Related Research

Washington, DC - The Institute for Credential Innovation (formerly IREC) of the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) announces the Margretta Madden Styles Credentialing Scholars Grant that provides up to $5,000 to a doctoral student conducting dissertation research or an evidenced-based project that focuses on credentialing for nurses.

ANCC Executive Director Jeanne Floyd, PhD, RN, CAE, states "ANCC serves the nursing and health care communities by granting funds to students with compelling projects that promise to add to the body of knowledge, regarding how credentialing programs and services raise the bar in providing quality health care."

Candidates must submit applications postmarked by November 12, 2004. Relevant subjects include specialty certification of nurses, accreditation of nursing continuing education, or quality standards to support nursing excellence such as those identified through ANCC's Magnet Recognition Program™.

Issued annually, the Styles Grant encourages research on the impact of credentialing processes on nurses and the profession as well as interrelated entities such as patients, other health care workers and policy makers. Additionally, it enables the accumulation of evidenced-based data to support quality patient care. The Institute for Credentialing Innovation, which awards the grant, has coordinated one of the largest studies of certified nurses in the U.S. and Canada. It also has worked with the International Council of Nurses to build a credentialing research registry and data bank.

Margaretta Styles, EdD, RN, FAAN, in whose honor the grant is awarded, has advocated nursing credentialing throughout her illustrious nursing career. She chaired The Study Committee, which issued the 1979 report, Study of Credentialing in Nursing: A New Approach, as well as the American Nurses Association Commission on Organizational Assessment and Renewal, which recommended the development of ANCC. And in 1986, she wrote Credentialing in Nursing: Contemporary Developments and Trends-USA within a World View.

For complete eligibility requirements and an application, visit the ANCC web site (http://www.nursecredentialing.org). ANCC will award the grant by December 17, 2004.

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The American Nurses Association is the only full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.7 million registered nurses (RNs) through its 54 constituent member associations. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.

The American Nurses Credentialing Center is a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association. ANCC is the nation's leading nursing credentialing center, offering general and advanced practice certification in over 40 specialty areas. In addition, ANCC offers continuing nursing education contact hours and review course materials thereby enhancing professional continued competency through its Institute for Credentialing Innovation. Further, it accredits agencies, organizations, facilities, schools and others who offer or approve continuing education courses for registered nurses, and promotes excellence in nursing services through its Magnet Recognition Program™. Each ANCC program is offered on an international platform through the ANCC Credentialing International program.

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