The Center for Nursing Research & Innovation

• Research Day Overview
• Guidelines for Abstracts
• Site Coordinators

Research Abstracts:

If you are submitting a research abstract, to be considered for a podium presentation, you must be sure to include:

1. Purpose, aims, hypotheses or research questions
2. Background and significance
3. Methods (design, sample characteristics, measures or instruments, procedures for data collection and data analysis)
4. Data findings, results and conclusions
5. Implications for practice and further study.

Clinical or Creative Project Abstracts: (QI/QM/PI/TQM, Program Evaluation, Research Utilization, Outcomes Measurement):

1. Purpose and/or objectives of the project
2. Background and significance
3. Description of methods or procedure
4. Evidence of results or outcomes of the project and how you measured the results-we want to see your data!
5. Conclusions and evidence of impacts of the project on patient care quality, costs or outcomes.

Abstract maximum is 500 words. Use 12 point font, single-spaced, with 1 inch margins. Capitalize title.
DO NOT PLACE NAMES ON ABSTRACT PAGE. For Call for Abstracts in pdf form.

The Abstract Submission Form (or other page separate from the Abstract Page) must list all authors' names and include: 1) the presenter's name with an asterisk, and 2) full corresponding author contact information.

We would like to offer you the document:
How to Write A Good Abstract: Dos, Don'ts, and Helpful Hints
by Susan Shapiro, PhD, RN, CEN and
Nancy Donaldson, RN, DNSc, FAAN

Please Note:  Due to limits of program presentation time and poster presentation space, not every abstract may be accepted for presentation. Following review of all abstracts, you will be notified.

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