NACNS 2019 Annual Conference

The National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists uses the association’s Research Agenda to determine topics of interest for its 2019 annual conference. Those interested in submitting an abstract for consideration will be asked to select a topic and address the theme of the conference (A Catalyst for Practice Change: The CNS) in their abstracts.

• Abstract Submission Opens: March 12, 2018
• Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 21, 2018
• Deadline for Student Poster Submission: December 4, 2018

Topics of interest include:

• Clinical Practice Application (e.g., patient-centered outcomes, reduction in complications, comparative effectiveness projects, non-disease specific phenomena);
• Health Care System (e.g., delivery, services, costs, safety, nurse-sensitive indicators);
• Health Care Policy (e.g., scope of practice, regulation, prescriptive authority);
• Health Promotion (e.g., wellness management, disease management, symptom management, quality of life, functional status, medications and other therapeutics);
• Education (e.g., healthcare provider/students, patients, families, populations [vulnerable or unique], communities);
• Palliative Care Across the Lifespan; and
• Pharmacology. (Please note: While pharmacology is not a category in the NACNS Research Agenda, NACNS is adding this Topic of Interest for 2019.)