Information for consideration:
- Membership in the Transcultural Nursing Society is strongly encouraged but is not required for abstract submission.
- TCNS accepts non-research symposium presentations, evidence-based practice presentations, and research presentations.
- TCNS encourages and accepts submissions from multiple healthcare disciplines.
- TCNS encourages and accepts both qualitative and quantitative research submissions.
- TCNS encourages diversity of submission topics.
- TCNS encourages and accepts submissions from students, clinical practice, research, administration, and education.
- TCNS encourages a diversity of theories and theorists, frameworks, and models.
- Poster Presentations will be done electronically, including an in-person overview on one assigned day.
- All presenters (poster and podium) must register for the conference and attend in person.
- The individual submitting the abstract MUST be attending and presenting at the conference. You may not submit an abstract and have a secondary individual present for you at a later date.
- Presenters must register to attend the conference by September 15, 2025, or they will be removed from the program. Registration fees are non-refundable after this date.
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Abstract Submission Information:
- Abstracts must address the conference theme and objectives.
- Abstracts must be blinded and contain no personally identifying information.
- Abstracts must be submitted through the secure online system.
- Abstracts must be limited to 500 words. No reference list should be included.
- Research and Quality Improvement(QI) Project presentations are required to have undergone an IRB review.
- Research and other presentations of indigenous populations must have approval from the council/governing body of the indigenous communities. If it is research, then IRB approval from the author's institution is also required.
- Only submissions with completed research will be accepted for podium presentations. That is if a submission to any category includes results of an investigation, only completed research will be accepted for a podium presentation. On the other hand, if the presentation falls within a category other than research and does not include research, then there is no such requirement.
Research-based presentations should use the introduction, methods, results, and discussion (IMRAD) structure.
- Posters may include pilot projects, ongoing research, preliminary analyses, literature reviews, or other non-research projects.
- Abstracts should be submitted for new work, gold standard information, and/or an original idea, concept, improvement, or revision of an old idea/concept.
- Non-research symposium presentations may be submitted.
- Each abstract should include a section on significance or relevance to the development of transcultural knowledge.
- The individual submitting the abstract MUST be attending and presenting at the conference. You may not submit an abstract and have a secondary individual present for you at a later date.
- The abstract submission deadline is midnight Eastern Daylight Time on May 15, 2025.
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Questions can be directed to staff@tcns.org.
Sample Abstract and Evaluation Criteria:
- To view evaluation criteria, CLICK HERE to download
- Sample Research Abstract using the introduction, methods, results, and discussion IMRAD format Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion, and you must include the significance to transcultural nursing- CLICK HERE
Informative Links: APA Inclusive Language Guidelines: https://www.apa.org/about/apa/equity-diversity-inclusion/language-guidelines