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Community Grants

Since 2019, the Center has funded 11 Nursing Innovation grants for nurses in Memphis who want to improve patient care in their area of practice. The grants are funded through money raised at the college’s annual NightinGala, which celebrates the profession of nursing and honors outstanding local nurses with the Nurse Hero Awards. Grant recipients have included nurses from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Methodist Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Regional One Health, Methodist North Hospital, and the Campbell Clinic.

Center Director and Assistant Professor Lisa Beasley, DNP, is charged with helping to expand community grants. “Frequently, nurses in clinical areas notice changes that can be made to improve patient care but may not know exactly how to study their idea and implement a change. The nurses are guided by Dr. Day or myself, and these small grants help them implement those ideas and perhaps present them and/or get them published.”

More information about the community grants is available by emailing Dr. Sara Day at sday5@uthsc.edu or Dr. Lisa Beasley at lbeasle9@uthsc.edu. 

Active Grants: Funded Grants Implementation and Evaluation Phase

Awarded 2025. Development of a Dedicated Education Specialty Unit (DESU), Regional One Health. Purpose: The demand for highly skilled and competent oncology nurses inspired the development a Dedicated Education Specialty Unit (DESU) for the College of Nursing at  Regional One. A DESU will address the challenges of recruiting, staffing, and retaining nurses for the optimal provision of cancer care in the future. Implementation phase underway.

Awarded 2025. Implementation and Evaluation of Team Nursing, Baptist Memorial Health Care. Implementation phase underway.

Awarded 2023. Prevalence and Risk Factors of Bullying in Health Care Settings, Regional One Health. Study completed and abstract submitted to American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2026 Conference.

Funded Grants: Completed

  • Building Legacies to Foster Patient and Family-Centered Care in an Outpatient Cerebral Palsy Clinic. Completed, abstract presented at The American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) 79th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

  • Exploring the Need for Palliative Care Services at a Large Tertiary Care Public Hospital, Regional One Health. Study completed, abstract Exploring the Need for Palliative Care Services at a Large Tertiary Care Public Hospital, presented at Southern Nursing Research Society Annual Conference, 2024, Charlotte, North Carolina.

  • Identify what Effect the Recent Criminal Court Decision from a Nurses Accidental Medication, Methodist North Hospital. Completed, study included in Magnet application.

  • Evaluating the Physiological and Psychological Impact of Music Selection for Patients Undergoing Angiography Procedures, Methodist North Hospital.  Abstract submitted and presented at 2023 ANCC National Magnet Conference ® and ANCC Pathway to Excellence Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  • Evaluation of the Impact of High-Fidelity Simulation on Code Blue Execution, Regional OneHealth. Abstract presented at Tennessee Nurses Association 2024 Annual Conference, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee.

  • Implementation and Evaluation of Evidence-Based Alarm Management Strategies, Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital.

  • Promote and Strengthen Competencies of Clinical Nurses: Implementation of Clinical Advancement Program Plus, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Publication Redesigning a Clinical Advancement Program to Promote and Strengthen Competencies of Clinical Nurses. J Nurs Adm. 2022 Sep 1;52(9):462-468. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000001183. Epub 2022 Aug 17. PMID: 35973194.

  • Development, Implementation and Evaluation of an Education Program for the Clinical Management of Acute Chest Syndrome, Methodist Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center. Outcome: Evidence-based Practice treatment guidelines implemented.

Mar 10, 2026