2014 Poster Competition & Reception

Poster Abstracts

Poster Competition:
Conference attendees are asked to complete a score sheet identifying the poster that they feel best exemplifies innovation in each category.

Session Overview:
The poster session will provide an opportunity for conference attendees to learn about innovative work in progress and to preview late-breaking research results. These abstracts summarize the creative approaches to preparing accelerated degree nursing students for their programs.

Categories for poster exhibits are:

• Leadership development activities for accelerated students;
• Successful strategies to recruit and retain ethnically diverse or underrepresented students;
• Innovative program design for accelerated students;
• Successful mentoring programs;
• Career trajectory (overview of your graduates’ 1) employment, 2) transition to graduate programs, and 3) demonstrated leadership activities post-graduation);
• Other topics of interest: (Amazing in-progress or completed projects such as challenges faced, unexpected accomplishments/successes, scholars leveraging previous skills, cultural competence initiatives, or student guided research/projects etc... ).

Poster Reception Session Objective:

1. Poster presenters will describe their work and opportunities for NCIN grantees to collaborate in design and implementation of innovative projects in accelerated nursing education.
2. Describe how outcomes of project are generalizable to other accelerated nursing programs.