RESEARCH DAY 2010  The Future is Now: Evidence-Based Practice Date: Friday, April 16, 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTER ABSTRACTS: Keynote by:  Dr. Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN Director, Center for Evidence-Based Practice Arizona State University Topic: Implementing, Integrating & Sustaining Evidence Based Practice as THE Paradigm for Healthcare. Purpose: The Research Day Annual Conference provides an opportunity for nurses and other health care providers in Arkansas and the regions surrounding to report ongoing and completed research as well as theoretical, evidence-based, educational, clinical innovations, and methodological projects to colleagues. The full conference will include podium presentations, poster sessions and symposia. Presentations will be selected on the basis of scientific merit by means of blind review. Location: UAMS I. Dodd Wilson Ed Bldg. 4301 W. Markham Little Rock, Arkansas 72205 Conference Details and Registration Information will be available on the UAMS College of Nursing Website in December   Submission deadline— January 4, 2010 - 5:00 p.m. Note: Confirmation of acceptance to primary author— February 1, 2010 Possible Session Topics: Research Day Sponsors §    Scholarship studies §    Educational innovations §    Quality Improvement  §    Methodology §    Demonstration projects  §    Clinical innovations §    Literature review  §    Scholarship in progress §    Instrument development  §    Technology §    Education/Administration Research University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Nursing   Arkansas Children’s Hospital   UAMS Medical Center   Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Nursing Service   Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)   Sigma Theta Tau International Gamma Xi Chapter   Sessions: A symposium is a panel presentation on a special topic or project. It consists of 3 related papers includes a brief description and objectives of the symposium. Paper Presentations are oral presentations as described above under possible session topics. Poster presentations may cover any of the session topics as described above. Click here for Research Day Call for Abstracts Guidelines.

MUST submit these forms for your abstract to be considered. 1.  Speaker Information form 2.  1-2 Objectives for abstract 3.  Abstract form (Instructions: Save forms to your computer--if prompted to login hit CANCEL-- complete forms and attach to email to researchday@uams.edu) Conference registration fee: (to be paid when you register)                                                                           Early Bird Price                                                                                                                   (completed  registration                                                                              Regular Price         received by March 1, 2010)             Undergraduate Students                 $20.00                    $18.00 Graduates Students                        $35.00                    $30.00 All Others                                      $75.00                    $70.00 Submitting an abstract indicates your agreement (if selected) to register, pay the registration fee, present at the conference, and give permission for duplication and printing of the abstract. The registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, and continuing nursing education contact hours.