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Grant Proposal

Charito Ward

Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing

Vulnerable Populations and Global Health

NUR 4215

Ms. Angel Daniels

I PLEDGE

March 13, 2016

Grant Proposal

Project description

I propose to have a free clinic for the community that is primarily funded by local

hospitals for patients that cannot afford healthcare or have means to get to appointments. I would

like for the hospitals funding the clinic to grants for nursing students, medical students, and

physician assistants to get money for school and living expenses to do a one-year working

rotation in the free clinic.

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I believe this idea can create a lasting change by promoting health in the community to

people who lack the finding to receive care. The grant will also promote community prevention

and health by easier access to a facility where the patients can receive care and not feel

dehumanized because they do not have money or insurance. The clinic will also help to serve in

the community for nursing students, physician assistants and residents learning to assess,

diagnose and treat patients. If this clinic is funded by the local hospitals to pay for doctors and

other staff, then the clinic does not need to worry about paying the staff because their paychecks

come from a supporting hospital.

Statement of need

The needs that my grant proposal meets is allowing accessible healthcare to the poor

demographics in Hampton roads as well as allowing nurses who are working in the clinic to be

sensitive to the needs of the people being seen and why they do not receive routine care. This

also gives nurses an opportunity to educate patients on preventive health, as well as the signs and

symptoms of diseases that patients need to monitor for and get treated if they become present.

Proposal details

The activities this grant will accomplish for the nursing student while promoting the

beliefs of Bon Secours is enhancing the environment in which Bon Secours nurses care and

practice (Bon Secours, 2015) by actively preforming assessments, proper hand-offs, enhancing

critical thinking, patient education, and effective team communication.

The Goals and objectives this grant will provide for nursing students will be

empowering Bon Secours nurses to grow personally and professionally (Bon Secours, 2015)

this is done by increasing the nurses confidence in themselves with continuous practice in a

setting that has multiple needs that need to be addressed with the patient population.
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Within the year that the nursing student is working at the clinic they will be able to apply

the statement of Bon Secours nurses promoting health and wholeness for our community (Bon

Secours, 2015) by working in the free clinic the nurses will learn what the patients needs in the

community are with many different circumstances and be able to promote Bon Secours charism

to bring Gods healing compassion and liberation to people in need, special attention is given to

those who are poor, sick or dying by helping alleviate their suffering and bringing them hope and

assurance that there is a God that loves them (Bon Secours Health System, 2013-2015). The

evidence based practice will focus more on proper education for the nursing student such as

proper patient education and patient handoff to outlying hospitals if needed, to not waste time on

skills that are unnecessary such as spending 45 minutes gathering medication for one patient

administration. There is no better way for the selected grant applicant to be able to show Bon

Secours charism than to work at the free clinic seeing the poor, sick, and dying by providing

them the best care possible, making the community feel safe and secure.

Detailed spending plan

I would appeal to the state for funding the clinic build and to keep it running such as

electricity and water and for the building itself, the reason why the state should fund the clinic is

because it is meeting the needs of the community by promoting health and prevention to the

poor.

I also will look into partnerships with large drug companies for free medication and

samples for the patients that cannot afford medicine. I would want to keep medication such as

inhalers, nebulizer treatments, allergy medication, antibiotics, and birth control in stock at the

clinic for easy treatment and access for the patients, narcotic and controlled substances would not
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be necessary to keep in the clinic, by not stocking those types of medication, this will prevent the

clinic from being a target for robbery.

The clinic would run like a business, Monday thru Friday from 8am to 4:30pm. The

clinic will have 1 security guard for any unexpected situation and for the clinic to run it should

have at least 2 staff doctors, a family practice doctor who can see children to adults, and an

internal medicine doctor for patients that have diseases that need more investigating; they would

be hired through a main hospital but assigned to work at the clinic so the clinic does not have to

provide pay for them.

Local colleges such as Old Dominion University, Hampton University, EVMS, Norfolk

state, can work with the clinic and pay for clinical rotations for their medical students, nursing

students, and physician assistants who need patient care experience as well. This will help the

clinic financially but also help the college institutions by providing a clinical site for their

students.

The grant proposal for the nursing student is to follow: each recipient of the grant will

receive 100,000 for the year they are Working at the community free clinic. The 100,000 will

be broken down as pay, tuition, and book fees. Salaries and wages-$50,000 will serve as pay

active pay while the nurse or medical student is working at the free clinic in order to help

alleviate financial burden while in school. This will also cover rent, travel, benefits/payroll taxes,

utilities, and indirect expenses. Training and Education-$35,000 will be issued to pay for tuition

completely OR to cover as much tuition as possible. The remaining $15,000 will be issued as

book fees and school supplies needed, printing, office material/supplies and other expenses;

excess of this will roll into the tuition fund to pay for the program.

Measurement
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This proposal can be measured by its success within the first year by incorporating the

targets of the Nurses for Good grant by addressing workplace, lifelong learning, and

community health. We will know that this proposal was effective when the community shows

interest in their own health, they do not feel belittled when they come to receive health care, the

students find confidence in themselves to assess, educate, collaborate with the healthcare team,

and to successfully communicate with the patients. The overall success will be the students that

were selected for the grant, to see them work in a safe and confident manner bringing the skills

they had learned working at the clinic to any job they choose to go to afterwards.
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References

Bon Secours (2013-2015). Building healthy communities. Strategic quality plan [Lecture notes].

Retrieved from Richmond, VA. USA: Bon Secours.

Bon Secours (2015). Nurses for good. Bon secours Virginia nurses giving circle 2015 grants

workshop. [Powerpoint]. Retrieved from Richmond, VA. USA: Bon Secours.