The following provides an overview of the Conference Program and the use of submissions in designing the program sessions:
- English is the Conference Language. Russian translators will be available for the Russian participants
- Focused Discussion Groups provide an opportunity for organized discussion on a designated topic. Leaders/facilitators develop a plan to guide a 60 minute discussion to include translation of moderator questions and participant contributions into both English and Russian. One or two individuals may facilitate these discussions
- Papers are scheduled for 20 minutes of presentation in English with 20 minutes for translation into Russian, and 10 minutes for questions and answers which are also translated into Russian/English
- Papers may be presented by individuals or as a panel or symposium presentation. A panel or symposium may have up to 4 presenters and the amount of time for a panel/symposium presentation will be adjusted based on the number of presenters. Symposium submissions must be on a common topic or theme
- Posters are presented with translation into either Russian or English during a scheduled session
Plans for Focused Discussion Groups and Abstracts for paper or poster presentation are peer reviewed for selection. The selected submissions are then scheduled for the Conference program
- Plans for Focused Discussion Group and abstracts for paper or poster presentation are printed in the conference program
Submission Topics
The Planning and Submission Review Committees welcome submissions on diverse topics and are most interested in ones that will stimulate participant interaction. For that reason, there is interest in topics able to be developed as Plans for Focused Discussion Groups. Please consider topics that provide a basis for understanding current issues and concerns relating to nursing practice, nursing research methodologies and approaches to evidence-based practice, the delivery of health care and the design and implementation of nursing education curriculums.
The following outlines suggestions to consider in developing a topic for submission:
- Submissions are invited on broad topics related to nursing practice, education and research. Within these broad topic areas, we welcome submissions on (submissions may be on topics other than those listed)
- Models of nursing care
- Ways of organizing the delivery of a continuum of health care
- Nursing roles in the US, particularly ones that are in the process of being established and the process to introduce new or changed nursing roles
- Development of professional nursing organizations
- Teach-learning strategies and ways of evaluating student performance and overall educational programs
- Research methodologies commonly used by nurses
- Nursing research studies and implications of study findings for practice
- Concepts and strategies for basing nursing practice on evidence, ways of promoting evidence-based nursing practice
- Evaluation of quality of care, quality improvement processes, examples/reports of quality improvement projects
- Clinical topics that are of particular interest to Russian nurses include infection control, pain management, patient safety, nurse sensitive patient outcomes of falls and pressure ulcers, other nurse sensitive outcomes relating to nurse staffing and ways of creating a more positive and quality nurse work environment
We invite you to submit an abstract for paper or poster presentation or a plan for a focused discussion group to help promote learning during this conference. Please review the Conference Goals.
Submit on a topic that fits your interest and expertise. Consider developing your topic as a poster or a plan for a focused discussion group, the learning activities that maximize participant interaction and sharing of perspectives. For all participants, but especially our Russian colleagues, the poster session and the focused discussion group sessions are the most positively received and highly evaluated. Those who do paper presentations provide information to create a more common understanding of key nursing concepts, research findings and methodologies, approaches to improving quality of care and nursing education trends.
For further information, please contact:
West Coast: Marie Driever at driever.m@ghc.org or mariedriever@comcast.net,206-448-2090
East Coast: Rachel Difazio at Rachel.Difazio@childrens.harvard.edu, (978)927-4452 |
