We are excited to report that Leslie Nicoll, continuing as our conference manager, and has assembled a planning team to form the details for the 2022 conference! Going forward, we will combine virtual and on-site activities, with the aim to uplift students and scholars who are dedicated to the ongoing development of nursing knowledge. Each year we will feature a local site where there are important historical roots for the development of nursing theory, and nurse scholars who are engaged in ongoing scholarship in the discipline.
The 2022 virtual component of the conference (Virtual Nursing Theory Week, VNTW 2022) will be held from March 17-21, 2022 with online plenary and knowledge sessions scheduled over the 5 days of the conference. The local site will be the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Nursing, highlighting the newly established Margaret Newman Center to promote the ongoing development of nursing scholarship. There will be a local social event at the College of Nursing for those who can attend, to coincide with, but not conflict with the virtual schedule.
A call for abstracts will be posted here soon — so watch for that announcement coming shortly! In 2021 we featured 66 breakout sessions selected from the abstracts submitted — each and every one of which was interesting and inspiring for all who attended! This year we have renamed the “breakout” sessions–since they are not concurrent–and are calling them knowledge sessions. There will be time for 42 knowledge sessions during the conference in addition to three plenary/general/panel sessions. There will also be a virtual poster session as part of VNTW 2022.
In 2023, the local site will be Los Angeles, where there are a number of nursing programs with a long and significant history of nursing theory development. Diane Breckenridge is leading the team to organize local social and networking opportunities that coincide with the virtual conference! The tentative dates for that conference are March 16-20, 2023.
Nursology Theory Annual Conference 