Tips for Writing a Research Protocol.

A brilliant advanced practitioner colleague, whose article you will find in this issue, asked whether JADPRO would publish her successfully funded grant application. When I asked about her motivation to become a researcher and seek grant funding after years of a successful clinical career, she had the most astonishing reply. “Physicians can be physician scientists, and I wanted to be a nurse practitioner scientist.” Her motivation made me wonder how many other advanced practitioners (APs) share the same desire: To strike a balance between conducting innovative research and maintaining patient care responsibilities. Indeed, her career path seemed remarkably similar to mine.