Marian Grant, D.N.P., ACNP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN, R.N.
Current Title: Consultant
Current Organization: Marian Grant Consulting
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Marian Grant is a clinical advisor for the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovations (NPHI), a policy consultant for the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) , the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), and the National Patient Advocacy Foundation, and a marketing consultant for the University of Washington’s MessageLab Serious Illness Messaging project, VitalTalk, and several hospice organizations. Dr. Grant maintains a clinical practice as a palliative care nurse practitioner at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She is adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins Schools of Nursing. In 2014, Dr. Grant was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow working on Capitol Hill and at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Dr. Grant has served on the board of the Carolinas Center and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association and speaks nationally and internationally on palliative care, messaging, and health policy. Before becoming a nurse, Dr. Grant had a career in marketing at Procter & Gamble and worked on the Max Factor and Cover Girl cosmetics brands there. She is the daughter of immigrants and refugees.
Fellow in 2014-2015
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D.N.P., ACNP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN, R.N.
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Marian Grant is a nurse practitioner (NP) dually certified in acute care and palliative care/hospice. She is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, where she teaches courses on communication, acute care, evidence-based practice, and end-of-life care. She is also a nurse practitioner on the University of Maryland Medical Center’s Palliative Care Service.
Grant is on the boards of the national Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association and the Maryland Nurse Practitioner Association. She is a fellow of palliative care nursing and a co-chair of the Professional Engagement Workgroup for the national Coalition to Transform Advanced Care. She is on the national and international faculties for the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) and the lead educational consultant on a National Cancer Institute-funded grant to develop an ELNEC curriculum to incorporate palliative oncology content into Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs.
Grant received her DNP from the University of Maryland, and her BSN and MSN from the Johns Hopkins University. She has worked as a nurse at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, helped start the palliative care program at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and worked as an NP at the Gilchrist Hospice In-Patient Unit in Towson, Maryland. She is a co-author of The Hospice and Palliative Care Approach to Serious Illness, has done research as an online palliative care NP on the Johns Hopkins Pancreatic Cancer website, and blogs monthly for the Journal of Palliative Medicine.
Grant received a BS in mass communication from Miami University and worked in marketing for the Procter & Gamble Company for 20 years.
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