Presenting at AWHONN ensures that your talk, research, case studies or innovative programs will be heard or viewed by a highly skilled, sophisticated and influential body of nurses. Those interested in this opportunity have four application options available (for details about submitting to a particular option, please click on the appropriate title below). All applications must be submitted via our Speaker Management System.

1. Specialty Sessions: Sixty or ninety minute oral paper presentations on topics related to the convention theme, goal and objectives. The talk may consist of a literature review or an in depth examination of a clinical problem or a professional issue. It is not necessarily original research. AWHONN seeks to ensure that all educational programming is free of commercial bias and under no circumstances should the submission include direct promotion of a product or service. Abstracts may not exceed 500 words in length and are due no later than 11:59PM, May 11, 2009 (EST). Deadline has been extended to August 17, 2009. Examples of abstracts accepted for presentation as specialty sessions in the past include:
   • Innovations in the Diagnosis and Management of Overactive Bladder
   • The Cutting Edge: Advances and Dilemmas in Fetal Surgery
   • Yes, Oxygen is Really a Drug: Oxygen Use in the Neonate
   • Education in Nursing Informatics: The Why to-Where to

2. Research Presentations (Papers or Posters): Posters or 30 minute oral paper presentations on completed research or evidence-based practice projects conducted by the submitters. Research papers and posters are original. Research starts with a problem and includes the following elements: a relevant problem statement and hypothesis; conceptual framework if applicable and literature review; methodology; and data analysis and interpretation. An evidence-based practice project or translational research is evaluative research on the adoption of evidence-based guidelines into practice. Applicants can indicate their preference to present as a paper or a poster. If the paper is not selected for oral presentation, applicants can indicate their willingness to have it considered for poster presentation. AWHONN seeks to ensure that all educational programming is free of commercial bias and under no circumstances should the submission include direct promotion of a product or service. Abstracts may not exceed 500 words in length and are due no later than 11:59 PM, August 17, 2009 (EST). Examples of abstracts accepted for presentation as research papers or posters in the past include:
   • The Relationship Between the Utilization of Prenatal Care and Neonatal Brain Injury in Low Birth Weight Infants
   • The Lived Experience of Adolescent Dating Violence
   • The Effects of Immediate Pushing Versus Delayed Pushing During the Second Stage of Labor on Fetal Well-being: A Randomized Clinical Trial

3. Innovative Program Paper Presentations (Papers or Posters): Posters or 30 minute oral paper presentations on innovative programs implemented in a variety of practice settings. Abstracts may not exceed 500 words in length. These are newly created and implemented programs which address challenges in women’s health, obstetric and neonatal nursing practice, education or administration. Papers describing programs with demonstrated outcomes will receive priority consideration. Applicants can indicate their preference to present as a paper or a poster. If the paper is not selected for oral presentation, applicants can indicate their willingness to have it considered for poster presentation. AWHONN seeks to ensure that all educational programming is free of commercial bias and under no circumstances should the submission include direct promotion of a product or service. Abstracts may not exceed 500 words in length and are due no later than 11:59 PM, August 17, 2009 (EST). Examples of abstracts accepted for presentation as innovative program papers and posters in the past include:
   • Baby Sense: Community-Based Education for New Mothers
   • Strategies to Promote Heart Health in Women: Community Health Education and Promotion Utilizing Social Marketing
   • Virtual Patients: Enhancing Maternity Clinical Experiences for Nursing Students

4. Case Study Presentations (Paper or Posters): Posters or 30 minute oral presentations of in-depth study and analysis of actual complex patient care cases or practice situations which pose unique nursing challenges. Cases should include an overview of the problem, discussion of interdisciplinary intervention, patient or practice outcomes, lessons learned and implications for future practice. Case write-ups must not contain identifying information or in any way violate HIPAA regulations. The case under discussion cannot be under current litigation. Presenters must confirm in the written submission that they have complied with these guidelines. AWHONN seeks to ensure that all educational programming is free of commercial bias and under no circumstances should the submission include direct promotion of a product or service. Abstracts may not exceed 500 words in length and are due no later than 11:59 PM, August 17, 2009 (EST). Examples of case study abstracts accepted as posters or papers in the past include:
   • Mending a Broken Heart: A Collaborative Approach to a High Risk Delivery
   • Ethical Dilemma: The Jehovah’s Witness Mother and Postpartum Hemorrhage
   • Beating the Odds: Survival after an Amniotic Fluid Embolism