Register – UAMS Nursing Research Day Registration
Conference Overview
Arkansas Nursing Research Day is a statewide conference dedicated to advancing nursing research and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among healthcare professionals, faculty, staff, and students. For over a decade, this event has provided a platform to showcase nursing research that drives evidence-based practice and improves healthcare outcomes. This year’s conference will emphasize team science, highlighting the power of collaboration in addressing complex healthcare challenges. Attendees will engage in multidisciplinary panel discussion and breakout sessions, promoting the exchange of innovative methodologies and insights, shaping the future of nursing research and practice.
2026 THEME
PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION: Advancing Health Through Nursing Research
Student Posters
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FEATURING
This year’s Dalme-Rickel Distinguished Visiting Lecturer and Keynote Speaker Nancy Glass, PhD, MPH/MSN, RN
Nancy Glass is a Professor and Independence Chair for Nursing Education at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, where she also serves as the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. Dr. Glass conducts clinical and community-based intervention research across multiple settings, domestically and globally. Since 2002, she has served as Principal Investigator of nine federally funded multidisciplinary research projects (NICHD, NIMHD, CDC, NIMH, NINR, OWH) to improve safety, health, and economic security and address gender inequity in diverse community and clinic settings. Dr. Glass has also collaborated with global experts and donors (UNICEF, World Bank, U.S. Department of State, PRM) to implement and evaluate innovative primary prevention programs that challenge social norms that sustain violence against women in humanitarian settings (Somalia and South Sudan).
Dr. Glass has helped examine the prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV) in the three regions of Somalia (South Central, Puntland, and Somaliland) to inform GBV programs and service. She works to improve health care systems’ response through a partnership that examines the feasibility and acceptability of ASIST-GBV to identify survivors of GBV in health settings with displaced and refugee populations in Kenya, after developing the screening tool in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Colombia. Her research collaborations have used mHealth technologies to deliver programs and to collect confidential and secure data, reach marginalized populations, and provide tools and resources to health and social service providers. Dr. Glass is committed to collaborating with and mentoring colleagues, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students globally as well as partnering with community experts and organizations to improve health, safety, and economic stability for women, families, and communities.
Continuing Education
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
ANCC Credit Designation Statement
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.5 ANCC contact hours. Nursing contact hours will be awarded for successful completion of program components based upon documented attendance and completion of evaluation materials.
2026 Organizing Committee
- Committee Chair: Jocelyn Anderson PhD, RN, SANE-A
- Britni Ayers, PhD
- Heather Hunter, MSN, RN
- Margaret Love, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
- Bridget McCarty, DNP, APRN, AG-ACNP-BC
- Whitney Norris, PhD
- Pearman Parker, PhD, MPH, RN, PMH-BC
- Brian Parks, PhD
- Janice Taylor, DNP, APRN, GNP-BC, AGPCNP-BC
- Kinsey Troxler, MNSc, RN
- Nickolas Zaller, PhD, MPH
- Nik Berardi, MHA
- Tiffany Bogan, BS
- Austin Pfrenger (student representative)
Clinical Partners:
- Dannis Armikarina, PhD, RN
- Brittany Beasley, PhD, RN, CNE
- Amy Ramick, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, NPD-BC
- Heba Sedaka, DNP, MSN, RN, CNE
- Rebekah Thacker, MNSc, RNC-NIC
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SUPPORTERS
Click here to learn about last year’s Arkansas Nursing Research Day.