CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 

Linking Practice and Research
24th Annual Kaleidoscope of Nursing Scholarship

The University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire College of Nursing and Health Sciences and the Delta Phi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International are pleased to announce the Twenty-Fourth Annual UWEC/STT Research Day on April 24, 2009. The purpose of the conference, Linking Practice and Research: A Kaleidoscope of Nursing Scholarship, is to promote evidence-based practice through dissemination of findings from scholarly inquiry.The day-long conference will include a keynote address, concurrent paper presentations and poster sessions.

You are invited to submit abstracts of completed projects in any area of nursing or health care for consideration as paper presentations. We welcome diversity in submissions including presentations on practice innovations, quality improvement projects, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Ongoing projects may be presented in poster format. Concurrent paper presentations will be thirty minutes in length followed by a ten minute discussion period. All abstracts must be received by January 28, 2009, for review by the Delta Phi Research Committee. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by February 20th. The registration fee and other expenses related to presentations will be assumed by presenters.

GUIDELINES:

1. A cover sheet containing the title of the paper, the author’s name, title, address and phone numbers (home, work), and e-mail address, should be sent with the abstract.
2. Your abstract should contain: (a) title of paper, (b) purpose, (c) description, (d) findings/outcomes, and (e) conclusions and recommendations. The abstract when completed and printed should be no longer than a one-sided single-spaced 8 ½ X 11” sheet of paper. Send your abstract via an email attachment to kirkholc@uwec.edu. Be sure to indicate whether your abstract should be considered for paper or poster presentation.
3. Abstracts of the papers and posters being presented will be distributed to conference participants.

DEADLINE:     Abstracts must be received by January 28, 2009.

SEND TO:       Lee-Ellen Kirkhorn, RN, PhD, Research Committee
                      Delta Phi Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau
                      College of Nursing and Health Sciences
                      University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire
                      kirkholc@uwec.edu

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