Author: Leslie

The Virtual Nursing Theory Week will be held from March 17-21, 2022. This will be a five day, virtual event held via Zoom with a mix of panel presentations, knowledge sessions, and poster presentations. The preliminary schedule will be posted soon.

The registration fee for the VNTW 2022 is $159 USD. This is a fixed price; there are no early bird, student, or other discounts. By keeping the price low, we hope to maximize attendance at the conference.

Registration is open now! Click here to register.

Sponsorship

We have something new this year–individual sponsorships! Whether a presenter or attendee, you can be sponsor, if you wish. Individuals may create a sponsorship (or more than one!) which will cover the cost of registration for another VNTW participant. This can be someone you know, such as a student or early career scholar. Or, you can opt to create a scholarship that will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis to people who apply for these funds. The cost of an individual sponsorship is $159, the price of an individual registration. If you have the means, we hope you will consider sponsoring a participant. You can create a sponsorship quickly and easily on the registration form: https://inane2014.wufoo.com/forms/registration-vntw-2022/. Please consider paying it forward with a sponsorship!

To Apply for a Sponsorship

You can request to be considered for a sponsorship by completing this brief application. We are working to keep this process low barrier and relatively easy, but we do ask that you keep the following in mind:

• Preference will be given to students and early career scholars. If you are a student (or recent graduate), please make sure to include this information.
• If you will be submitting an abstract for presentation (knowledge session or poster), please make sure to include this information.
• If you receive a sponsorship, you will be expected to attend all five days of the conference (to the best of your ability).
• If you have resources through your school or institution that would pay for/reimburse your registration for the VNTW, please do not apply for a sponsorship. These funds are intended for individuals who are “paying out of pocket” and have an identified need.
• Success of this program depends on the number of sponsorships that are received from individuals—we cannot guarantee a specific number of recipients (if any) who will receive funds. If you are selected (and your registration is paid for) you will receive an email confirmation. You will also receive the name and email of your sponsor, so you can send a thank you note.
• If you register for the VNTW and subsequently receive a sponsorship, your original registration will be refunded, minus a $10 credit card fee.

The Call for Abstracts for the VNTW 2022 is now open! Abstracts will be accepted from today until 11:45 pm EST on November 15, 2021. Selected presenters will be notified by early December, 2021. At least one presenter must register and attend the virtual event. If there are co-presenters, all presenters must register. Co-authors on a project, who will not be attending the VNTW, can be listed on the abstract and thanked in an acknowledgement, but they will not be listed as presenters on the conference program that is published in Guidebook.

There are two types of presentations for the VNTW 2022: Knowledge Sessions and Poster Presentations.

For a Knowledge Session, each presenter will have a 30 minute block for their session. They will be able to share content verbally and visually (by sharing their screen). We ask that each presenter plan on 20 minutes to present, with 8-10 minutes for questions and discussion.

For a Poster Presentation, there will a dedicated video channel in Guidebook for the posters. Each presenter will be asked to prepare a brief (approximately 5 minutes) video to introduce their topic and presentation. Attendees will be able to watch the videos in advance of the poster session. Then, during the dedicated Poster Session during the VNTW 2022, Zoom will be set up with breakout rooms, one for each poster presenter. Attendees will be able to move through the breakout rooms and chat with the presenters who will be sharing their poster on the screen.

We are committed to having both types of sessions be equally valuable and value added for all attendees.

Click here to submit your abstract for the VNTW 2022.

Please note that you should have all your materials ready (ie, title, abstract, contact information) when you start completing the form. Once you begin, you must complete and submit the form–or abandon it and start over. It is not possible to save the form and return to it later to complete.

Questions? Send us a message through the contact form. Thanks!

Memphis, Tennessee is the local site for the Virtual Nursing Theory Week 2022 conference. Memphis was the home of Dr. Margaret Newman–she was born there, graduated from high school, and received her baccalaureate nursing degree (1962) from UT College of Nursing. She also studied in California (MS, UCSF, 1964) and New York (PhD, NYU, 1971) and worked at NYU, Penn State, and the University of Minnesota. Shortly after her retirement in 1999, in 2004 she returned to Memphis and lived there until her death in 2018. Even though she was retired, during this time she was active in advancing nursing theory, education, theory, research, and practice through her presentations and publications. She made deep connections to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing, which has established the Margaret Newman Center and an endowed chair in her name.

Recognizing Newman’s significant contributions to nursing theory, research, and scholarship over the course of her life and career, the VNTW 2022 will be using her article, “A World of No Boundaries” as the overarching theme for the conference. This article was published in Advances in Nursing Science in 2003 (vol. 26, pp. 240-245) and while it will be almost 20 years old at the time of the VNTW 2022, its message is timeless. Wolters-Kluwer and Mercedes Simoncelli, publisher of ANS have made the article available for free from now until the end of March, 2022. We are grateful for their support.

If you are planning to participate in the VNTW 2022, either as a presenter or attendee, we encourage you to take some time to read “A World of No Boundaries.” We believe this will help orient you to the conceptual thinking of the conference, as well as provide a nice introduction to Newman’s work. You can learn more about her theory, Health as Expanding Consciousness at nursology.net, which might also be useful to you in preparing for the VNTW 2022.

Note that the VNTW 2022 is not about Margaret Newman exclusively, nor is it a Margaret Newman conference. We are just recognizing her roots and lifelong connections to Memphis, which is the local site for this local/virtual event. We did something similar last year, remembering Rosemary Ellis and her connections to FPB at Case Western Reserve University. We just ask that people be mindful of Margaret Newman and her work as they prepare to attend the VNTW 2022, either as a presenter or attendee.