Poster Abstracts

Poster Abstract Submissions

2026 NNEC Poster Submissions are now closed. Thank you to all who submitted!

Poster Objectives

  • Describe the components of a moral community that contribute to an ethical climate and expand ways of responding during turbulent times.
  • Explain how collaboration in an ethical environment increases the efficacy of an individual’s moral intent.
  • Create a process for recognizing divisions and injustices that are most amenable to ethical resolution.
  • Recognize ways to nourish our collective agency and rekindle our moral imagination as we honor our deeply valued professional commitments.
  • Illustrate how to cultivate hope that counters apathy, cynicism, and weariness to support our ability to flourish.

Submission Requirements

  • Title of poster
  • Abstract: Background, intervention, outcomes, implications for practice and conclusion. If presenting a research project, please include methodology, analysis, and impact.
  • Category:
    • Empirical research relevant to ethics and clinical practice
    • Intervention to promote ethical practice in nursing care
    • Strategy for ethics education
    • Evidence-based practice relevant to ethics and clinical practice
    • Promoting ethics and professionalism in clinical practice
  • 500 word limit
  • Submit by midnight PST on Sunday, December 14, 2025.

Submission note: We understand that there are often multiple contributors to a poster abstract submission. Please choose a lead author under which to submit the abstract with the understanding that co-authors will be included on the poster, invited and encouraged to attend the conference, and have their names included on the poster abstract listing in conference materials. Communication regarding poster abstract reviews and conference information will be sent to the identified lead author. They should then share or forward that communication to other authors.

Getting Started

Think about how the theme of moral community is involved in areas that you are working on. Here are a few examples:

  • multidisciplinary collaboration
  • establishing moral community
  • effective communication
  • ethical climate
  • ethical concerns for immigrants and the undocumented
  • leadership and institutional ethics
  • healthy equity and environmental justice
  • addressing hope in health care professionals
  • the use of narrative in health care
  • health care worker mental health
  • healthy workplace environments
  • programs and/or interventions that promote moral agency
  • moral distress assessment and interventions
  • informed consent/assent
  • ethical challenges in organ procurement/transplantation
  • inviting community engagement in health care ethics
  • AI ethical concerns with its expansion and integration into health care

Then review the categories below to see where it may fit. When you have a category and a topic, you can start by thinking of a title and then put together an abstract within the word limit. Generally, these are the main elements to consider as an outline for an abstract.

  1. Background (why it matters)
  2. Intervention (what you did)
  3. Implications/Objectives (what you set out to do)
  4. Results/Findings (what you learned)
  5. Conclusion/Impact (why it matters to others)
  6. For a Research Project, add:
    • Methods (how you did it)
    • Analysis (how you reviewed the results)

Take the outline and fill in your abstract. Review it, and then submit it.

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