Call for abstracts

Abstracts are to be submitted under one of the following themes.

1. Who is the nurse or midwife of the future?
   Understanding the knowledge, skills and attributes needed for practice.
2. What approaches and models of education are needed to prepare nurses and midwives for the future?
   How should we educate the nurse or midwife of the future?
   What models of education will be needed to ensure professional responsiveness?
3. How will we enable professionalism?
   What is the purpose of professionalism in nursing and midwifery?
   How do we educate for professionalism?
   What types of environments enable professionalism?
   
4. Where are the transition points and how do we negotiate these?
   Transition to university, transition to work, transition to leadership, transition within specialties.

Abstracts must be submitted via the online abstract submission portal.

Abstract title:
The abstract title must be in sentence case (only capitalise the first letter of the first word in the title – like you would in a sentence. Proper nouns must also have a capital). The title should be specific about the abstract’s content. Use short titles and standard abbreviations (expand at its first instance). The maximum title length is 20 words.

Author names and affiliations:
You must enter each authors’ name and affiliation including the city, state and country. You must also indicate who will be the presenting author.

Abstract text:
The abstract text must not exceed 300 words, excluding the abstract title, author details and keywords.

Text must be submitted as plain text without formatting. A limited number of symbols are available from the Special Character Keyboard (see below). Tables, graphs, and charts are NOT permitted in abstracts.

Text must be single-spaced and in upper and lowercase letters.

Research abstracts should follow the following format:
Aim/Objective: text
Methods: text
Results: text
Conclusion: text
Keywords: list not more than four keywords describing your abstract.

Non-research abstracts do not need to follow the same headings as research abstracts, but should be descriptive paragraphs outlining your work or suggestions. Keywords: list not more than four keywords describing your abstract.

Avoid reference to institution names, locations, or funding sources in the abstract.

Please carefully check all text for errors before submission as the quality of your abstract in this regard may significantly affect the outcome of the reviewers’ evaluation and scoring of your abstract.

All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.

In evaluating each abstract, reviewers will be unaware of authors or institutions involved with the work described in the abstract. (Abstracts will be suitably anonymised by the program secretariat before being sent out to reviewers).

The reviewers will assign accepted abstracts either to lightning, oral or poster presentation.

Notification of the outcome of the review and acceptances will be sent to the contact person (this should be the first presenting author) by Friday 13 August 2021.

Only the contact person will be notified of acceptance or non- acceptance, and it is their responsibility to notify all other authors about the outcome of the reviewers’ decision.

For all accepted abstracts, further details regarding the lightning presentation, oral presentation (PowerPoint presentation) and poster presentation (poster size, format, style and layout etc) will be communicated to the contact person as appropriate.