Nursing Scholarship of Practice Poster Session

Call for Posters

You will be notified of the deadlines for abstract submissions for the Annual Scholarship of Practice Poster Session by Walden University School of Nursing.

To be eligible to submit, an applicant must be:

A current Walden student or Alumni who is an active Phi Nu Chapter member
Able to present her/his poster at a Walden University Commencement
Project must be completed by date of poster presentation

Applicants should submit abstracts based on their Scholarship of Practice.

Practicum projects are especially encouraged. This is a great opportunity to showcase your practicum work in a mentored environment.

Please follow the direction on the attached form and submit by the due date (to be determined).

One outstanding poster in each of the three categories per program (BSN, MSN and DNP) will be selected for a $100 award.

Blind reviews will be completed by a panel of Walden University faculty.

Names will be removed from the abstracts to ensure anonymity of the applicant.

Persons who have been selected to participate will be notified.

Abstracts must follow the required format to be considered.

Travel will be at the presenter’s expense.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM

Nursing Scholarship of Practice Poster Session

Poster presentations submitted should describe innovative projects and lessons learned in the practice of nursing.

1. Authors’ names, credentials, and affiliations (primary and co-authors):

2. Corresponding author’s e-mail address and phone number:

3. Nursing Program or practice Specialization that best fits your poster presentation:

____ A. Nursing Education

____ B. Nursing Leadership and Management

____ C. Nursing Informatics

____ D. BSN Student Project

_____ E. DNP Student Project

_____ F Other Nursing Specialty Project

4. Title of presentation:

5. Beginning date of project: __________

6. Ending date of project: __________ (if project is ongoing indicate that here)

Please describe your project by answering items 7–14 below.

Do not exceed 500 words total in your responses.

7. Setting of project:

8. Problem addressed:

9. Objectives of project:

10. Intervention or change implemented, if any:

11. Actions and methods used to solve the problem and meet the objectives:

12. Evaluation Strategies used to determine whether the objectives were met:

13. Outcomes:

14. Lessons learned (conclusions and recommendations for practice):

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument. Nursing Scholarship of Practice Poster Session