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Program Materials to Submit by August 4

Provided via the abstract submission site by August 4.

Submitting your materials by this deadline is required for all posters. These materials must be reviewed by an APNA Nurse Educator to ensure that they meet requirements for nursing continuing professional development contact hours (e.g. appropriate permissions and citations).

Top Tips:

  • Know yourself… build in time for questions and communication with education staff!
  • Carefully review the copyright and permissions information to ensure you don’t violate copyright laws.
  • Remember your materials are more than a poster – each item you submit helps you craft a presentation that delivers high quality nursing professional development.

Poster Program Materials Breakdown

 

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Learning Outcome

What you enter in this field is what learners will use to evaluate your poster and it must be included on your poster. It is automatically populated with the learning outcome in your abstract. You can change or edit it, but remember that your learning outcome should:

  • Complete the following sentence: Upon completion of this presentation, participants will be able to…
  • Start with a verb (capitalized), and end with a period.
    Example: Identify two gaps within the working relationship between acute care hospitals and law enforcement.
  • Be achievable and measurable. We recommend using Bloom’s Taxonomy action verbs

References

Enter at least 3 evidence-based references used to develop your presentation.

  • References should be from within the last 5 years
  • There is space for up to six, but only 3 are required.

More Info About Developing Your Content

Poster

Upload a PDF of your poster

  • If you created your poster in a PowerPoint template (or some other format), please convert it to a pdf for submission.
  • You can only upload 1 file for this field.

More Info About Creating Your Poster

Permissions

Upload up to 10 documents indicating all permissions you’ve received for logos, charts, images, etc. in your presentation materials.

You can copy and paste email exchanges into a word document to upload if that’s how permission is received.

Copyrighted images without permissions will be removed from your posters.

More Info About Copyright & Permissions

Step-By-Step Walkthrough

 

  • Sign in using your APNA username and password. If you don’t remember your username and/or password, contact APNA at 855-863-2762.
  • You will be brought to the My Programs page and should see your final abstract submissions listed. There will be a Program Materials box at the top right of the screen – you should see the session type & abstract ID # of your accepted presentations listed.

When you click into your session, you will see this menu:

Click on each tab to fill in the fields/upload files.

Educational Design Section

One Learning Outcome

3 or More References

There are fields for you to enter 6, but only 3 are required.

Supporting Information Section

Key Takeaways

The appropriate number of fields will appear based on the type of session you are presenting. All fields will be required. Note: For ease of reading while entering your information, the fields are expandable by clicking and dragging out the bottom right corner.

Slides & Handouts Upload

Upload up to 10 files (no more than 20 MB per file). Remember, your slides should be uploaded as a .ppt file.

Permissions Section

Upload up to 10 documents indicating all permissions you’ve received for logos, charts, images, etc. in your presentation materials.If you received permission via an email, we recommend pasting the email into a word document and uploading that.

Final Submission

Once you have completed all the sections, you will see green check marks on each tab. Click the Submit Materials button, which will mark your submission as final.

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