The Public Health Nursing Section welcomes and invites individual abstracts and full session proposals for 2015 pertinent to the basic elements of public health:

• championing social justice,
• addressing population health,
• based in the evidence, and
• pertaining to prevention and health promotion.

The PHN Section also welcomes and invites individual abstracts and full session proposals pertaining to Section Strategic Priorities:

• Academic / practice partnerships
  
• Accreditation and quality improvement
  
• Active living and healthy eating
  
• Addressing Vulnerable Populations
  
• Adolescent and Young Adult Health
  
• Building Partnerships to Build Health Communities
  
• Chronic Disease Screening and Prevention
  
• Environmental Health
  
• Global Health
  
• Global Health: HIV/AIDS
  
• Health Impact Assessment
  
• Health in All Policies
  
• Immigrant and Refugee Health
  
• Interpersonal Violence Prevention
  
• Maternal Child Health
  
• Mental Health
  
• Occupational Health
  
• PHN Business Meeting II
  
• PHN Health Equity meeting
  
• PHN Research Committee
  
• PHN Research I
  
• PHN Research II
  
• PHN Section Business Meeting I
  
• PHN Workforce
  
• Pregnancy and pregnancy prevention
  
• Public Health Ethics
  
• Public Health Nurses Luncheon
  
• Public Health Nursing Education
  
• Public Health Preparedness, Response, & Recovery
  
• Quad Council Event
  
• Quad Council Social Hour
  
• Reducing Health Disparities and Promoting Health Equity
  
• STI, HIV/AIDS screening, treatment and prevention
  
• School Health Services
  
• Sexual Risk Reduction
  
• Social justice
  
• Strengthening Communities Through Participatory Research
  
• Understanding and Building Resilience for Healthier Communities
  

Abstracts may be submitted for oral, poster, roundtable, or full session proposals, although the Program Planners may reassign requested formats to make best use of the Section’s limited sessions. Presenting authors must be APHA members and register for attendance at the Annual Meeting.

Abstract Format

Limit abstracts to 250 words, using one of three formats:

1)  Research:

• Background
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusions

2)   “Lessons-learned:”

• Background/ Issue
• Description
• Lessons Learned
• Implications/recommendations

3)  Narrative:

• Statement of the problem
• Approach
• Product/outcome
• Implications

Full Session Proposals: 

Full Sessions are 90 minutes long and require 3-5 individually submitted abstracts. Full session abstracts are reviewed through the regular submission process. Indicate to which full session they belong by including the full session title in the abstract title. For example, for a State of the Science full session abstract, entitle it:  “State of The Science Update: Effective Counseling Methods for Vaccine Withholders.”

Review Criteria

All abstracts will be blind-reviewed by three reviewers using the following criteria:

1. Importance of the issue
2. Innovative methods
3. Soundness of the science
4. Substantive nature of the work
5. Compelling conclusions

Continuing Education Credit for Sessions 
For a session to be eligible for Continuing Education Credit, each abstract must:

1)  be free of trade and/or commercial product names

2)  have at least one measurable objective written in action terms

3)  include a signed Conflict of Interest (Disclosure) form with a relevant Qualification Statement.

For continuing education questions, please contact Annette Ferebee at annette.ferebee@apha

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Susan Swider, PhD, APHN-BC
susan_m_swider@rush.edu

and
Patricia Kelly, Phd MPH APRN
University of Kansas
2464 Charlotte St.
Kansas City, MO 64108
Phone: 503-236-6081
kellypj@umkc.edu

and
Kathy Shaw, DNP, RN, CDE
College of Nursing
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Education 2 North
13120 E. 19th Ave.
Aurora, CO 80045
Phone: 303-724-8528
kathy.shaw@ucdenver.edu