Professional Conference Poster Presentation: Innovative Professional Development Assignment in Nurse Practitioner Education.

BACKGROUND

This innovative assignment converted a traditional presentation to an assignment that addressed several National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties competencies and the growing trend toward nurse practitioner professional advancement models.

METHOD

The professional conference poster assignment spanned two semesters. The first semester assignment included a focused literature review and abstract development. The second semester assignment included a formal presentation using a digital poster format.

RESULTS

Only three of the 23 respondents indicated ever having developed an abstract or a professional conference poster prior to the assignment. Students identified new skills acquired as a result of the professional conference poster assignment: writing an abstract (78%), writing a biographical statement (87%), constructing a digital poster (91%), speaking at a conference (87%), and searching the evidence (48%).

CONCLUSION

Nurse practitioner students evaluated this assignment highly, learned valuable dissemination skills that met core competencies, and were instilled with a culture of clinical scholarship and dissemination. [J Nurs Educ. 2020;59(6):345-348.].