CFP: Global Health & Innovation Conference

Global Health & Innovation Conference
April 14-15, 2018 | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
15th annual conference

The Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on April 14-15, 2018, is the world’s leading and largest global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference, with 2,000 professionals and students from all 50 states and more than 55 countries. This must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, changemakers, professionals and students from all sectors of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.

Apply to present at the Global Health & Innovation Conference! August 31 is the first round abstract submission deadline.  Read more about the presentation opportunities and the abstract submission process.

CFP: AACN (Faculty Development & Baccalaureate Ed)

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) invites you to submit YOUR abstract to the Faculty Development Conference and/or the Baccalaureate Education Conference. Content must relate to each conference as stated below and as further outlined in the detailed Call for Abstracts.

We look forward to your submissions!

All submissions are due on August 14.

CFP: Connecting Research, Practice and Community for Improved Outcomes

CFP: Conference on Community Engagement and Healthcare Improvement
Connecting Research, Practice and Community for Improved Outcomes

San Antonio Texas, September 12-13, 2017 at the Historic Menger Hotel
Registration is now open
Registration fee: $500 Fee will increase on August 1st to $575
Go to the conference site http://www.nursing.uthscsa.edu/ce/conference.aspx

Call for Podium Presentations
Abstracts chosen for podium presentations will be placed in a breakout session;
each presentation will last approximately 25 minutes.  Deadline to submit is June 23, 2017
Click here for detailed information

Call for Knowledge Market
Knowledge Market is designed to:

• Connect patients, community partners, and healthcare providers
• Stimulate knowledge sharing
• Accelerate research, practice and patient outcome cycle
• Find solutions to healthcare challenges
• Submit for Poster, A Booth or Both  Click here for detailed information
• Submission deadline is July 24, 2017, but space is limited to submit early!

Continuing Education: 

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing is an approved provider by the Texas State Board of Social Workers Examiners.

CFP: Generating and Translating Evidence for Teaching Practice (NLN/STTI)

You are invited to participate in “Generating and Translating Evidence for Teaching Practice,” the NLN/STTI biannual Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC) in Washington, DC, from April 19-21, 2018.

Please consider submitting an abstract by June 15, 2017. Being accepted for presentation gives you the opportunity to publish and to disseminate your work in nursing education research and evidence-based teaching practices.

Abstracts are encouraged from research and evidence-based practices focused on the following topics:

	Multi-Site/Multi-Method Studies
	Instrument Development and Testing
	Meta-Analysis Studies
	Technology to Improve Nursing Education and Practice
	Innovations in Collaborative Practice

Submit your abstracts at the submission page.

Of course, regardless of whether or not you plan to submit an abstract for consideration, on behalf of STTI and the NLN, I encourage you to attend this outstanding nursing education research event.

CFP: Filling the Gaps in LGBT Healthcare and Research (GLMA Conference

35^th GLMA Annual Conference on LGBT Health

Call for Abstracts

Abstracts must be submitted and completed online
by 11:59pm EST on May 1, 2017.
Glma is calling for abstracts for its 35th Annual Conference on LGBT Health, which will be held September 13-16, 2017, in Philadelphia, PA.

Conference Theme:
From Resistance to Resilience: Filling the Gaps in LGBT Healthcare and Research, will highlight the significant gaps in LGBT healthcare and research. In a volatile political environment in which LGBT-affirming programs such as the Affordable Care Act are being dismantled, the GLMA Annual Conference on LGBT Health will focus on healthcare innovations and groundbreaking research that improve the health and well-being of LGBT patients and their families. Abstracts and proposals addressing this theme will be prioritized.

Special Emphasis: Leveraging the momentum established during the 34th GLMA Annual Conference on LGBT Health, GLMA will continue to place special emphasis on abstract topics that address the intersection of sexual orientation and gender identity with other identities, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, HIV status, ability, religion, immigration status, socioeconomic status and/or geographic location and their impact on health and healthcare.

*GLMA encourages the submission of clinically-focused, evidence-based abstracts.

To learn more about the Call for Abstracts and how to submit your abstract, visit www.glma.org/callforabstracts. The updated deadline for conference abstracts is May 1, 2017!

Registration for the 35th GLMA Annual Conference on LGBT Health is now open! For more information and to register visit: www.glma.org/conference

CFP: The Nursing Role in Promoting a Culture of Health

21st Annual Evidence Based Practice Conference

The Nursing Role in Promoting a Culture of Health

Friday October 13, 2017, 8am to 3:30pm

Hartford Hospital Education Resource Center (ERC), Heublein Hall
560 Hudson Street, Hartford, CT

 

https://hartfordhospital.org/ct-nursing-research-alliance/conference/conference-information

CFP: Custody and Caring

Custody and Caring:  15^th Biennial International Conference on the Nurse’s Role in the Criminal Justice System, Saskatoon, SK  Canada, October 4-6, 2017

 2017 Conference Theme:  Contemporary Challenges, Opportunities, and Collaborations

Nurses and other health care professionals practicing at the interface of the health and criminal justice systems are faced with daily challenges unique to their roles, the clientele they work with, and the environments in which they practice. The first national conference focusing on nurses working in the forensic milieu was hosted by the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan and the Regional Psychiatric Centre, Correctional Service Canada in 1989, and has been held biennially since then. We are pleased to host the 15th anniversary of the Custody and Caring Conference in 2017, and recognize that by highlighting contemporary challenges, opportunities and collaborations, best practices are promoted

Objectives

The overall goal of the conference is to provide a forum for highlighting innovations in practice, education, research, and policy development in the field of forensic mental health and correctional health care in Canada and throughout the world. Clinical issues and work life issues unique to nurses, health care professionals and other professionals working within forensic mental health and correctional environments will be featured.

Conference participants will be able to:

• discuss issues unique to the provision of nursing and health care in institutional and community based settings
• report innovations in program and policy development relevant to forensic mental health and correctional health care practice, education, research and leadership
• consider clinical and ethical issues unique to forensic mental health and correctional healthcare
• explore interventions that emphasize community re-integration of forensic clients
• promote forensic mental health care and correctional healthcare as specialized areas of practice
• examine vulnerability and diversity as concepts of particular relevance to researchers and practitioners in correctional and forensic mental health environments
• describe innovative methodologies and approaches to correctional and forensic research
• explore opportunities to address work life issues unique to health care professionals practicing within forensic mental health correctional environments

For further information and to submit an abstract please see http://custodyandcaring.usask.ca/about.php