Primary Care Nursing Innovation Award
Do you have your eyes on the horizon of nursing and a desire to make a difference in primary care?
Do you have a bright, patient outcome-focussed idea you’d love to explore if you had financial support to make it happen? Can you summarise it into an application of about 500 words?
Pinnacle is offering a nursing innovation fund of $10,000 to explore potential nurse-led primary health innovation designed to improve the health needs of communities.
This funding could be used to develop innovative models of care or practice, quality improvements, to decrease access barriers in your practice, for change development, equity projects, leadership development, implementation of practice change, and more.
Applications close Monday 2 September 2024. The application form is linked below.
“Our nursing strategy is about creating opportunities and giving nurses support they may not have had access to before. We are investing in our nurses because we know nurses, especially rural, will play a bigger part in service delivery as time goes on” - Jan Adams, General Manager MHN / Nursing Director.
Applications
As part of Pinnacle’s commitment to supporting professional development and service improvement within the network, we are offering a nursing innovation fund of $10,000. This could be offered as two separate funds of $5,000 depending on purpose and the number of applications received.
This innovation fund is open to any nurse employed in a Pinnacle practice or by Pinnacle Midlands Health Network. We are looking for people with a clear goal in mind, ideas about how to get there, and how its success can be measured.
Applicants must have the support of their manager and practice owner and be able to describe how the innovation award money will be used. Applications must include methods of measuring outcomes and evaluation plans of the proposal.
To ensure their initiative succeeds, the successful recipient(s) will receive coaching, project planning and reporting support.
A commitment to sharing knowledge, and supporting others in their learning, is also expected.
Please note the funding is not intended to support research or formal academic study.
Nurse leads
nursing@pinnacle.health.nz
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