Call for Speakers

AMSN invites you to submit a speaker abstract for the 2024 AMSN Annual Convention, taking place September 12-14, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario.

The conference provides opportunities to share and gain knowledge, expertise, and perspectives through collaborative education and various modalities. Whether you have a unique research project, innovative practice change, or any other medical-surgical advancement you'd like to share, submit a proposal and show off your skills in your area of expertise!

The Call for Abstracts will remain open through January 15, 2024. Those who submit an abstract will be notified of their submission status in March 2024.

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT

Session Formats

• General Session: 75-minute formal presentations to all convention attendees in an interactive lecture format
• Concurrent Session: 60-minute formal presentations to an audience of 75+ attendees in an interactive lecture format
• Rapid Fire Session: 15-minute short-form formal presentations to an audience of 75+ attendees in an interactive lecture format

Speaker Abstract Tracks

• Clinical Practice: Innovative, cutting-edge information about the clinical aspect of medical-surgical practice that includes clinical practice trends, new treatments, specific patient populations, disease states, and care transition management.
• Creating and Sustaining Healthy Practice Environments: Innovative ideas on how to create and/or sustain healthy practice environments in medical-surgical units with increasingly complex demands. Promote optimal patient outcomes with varied staffing models.
• Evidence-based Practice, Quality Improvement, and Research: Integrates the best available evidence to guide nursing care and improve patient outcomes. Submissions on research methods and discussion of research issues would also be considered. Research submissions directly relevant to medical-surgical nursing practice are highly encouraged.
• Interprofessional Collaboration: Nurses and other health professionals collaborate with patients, their support systems, and caregivers to deliver high-quality care and care coordination to manage transitions of patients among levels of care, providers, and settings. Should include partnerships such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, or nutrition.
• Nursing Leadership: Emerging models of leadership, developing leadership skills of the clinical nurse at the bedside, strategies to influence outcomes and quality, and experiences integrating new models of care within the fiscally challenged environment to include the changing managed care arena.
• Pharmacology: Integrates the key components of pharmacology: pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics for nursing practice, concepts of safe administration, symptom and pain management, monitoring medication effects and interactions, and preventing adverse events.
• Professional Development: Unique approaches to transition to practice including onboarding new graduates and experienced nurses transition into new roles, successful hiring practices, onboarding, staffing retention models, simulation, and the novice to expert path.
• Virtual Nursing: Innovative models of care and new technologies that provide access to nurses and expert nursing care to patients and their support systems outside of the traditional bedside/in-office settings. Demonstrates how virtual nursing care can support clinical decision-making and continuity of care to improve patient outcomes. Provides opportunities to retain highly skilled nurses as part of the care team with less physical demand and more flexibility.

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT