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2024 Professional Governance Conference

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Call for Abstracts are Open!

We are seeking submissions that showcase how nurses in all roles demonstrate leadership in professional governance and embody the principles of professional governance, taking ownership of their practice to make a meaningful impact on their organization, the nursing profession and the health outcomes of the patients and communities they serve.  

Submit an Abstract 

Potential submission topics include:  

  • Improved Health Outcomes:  Provide exemplars of how nurses fulfill their social contract to advance health. Highlight the influence and value of the nursing profession that drive positive health outcomes in the communities served. 

  • Improved care coordination:  Demonstrate how professional governance has improved care coordination across all settings and improved collaboration among nursing professionals, positively impacting nursing professionals and the individuals they serve.

  • Shaping the Future of Nursing:  Showcase how professional governance is essential for ensuring a sustainable future and well-being of the nursing profession.

  • Leadership in Professional Governance: Provide examples of nurses in all roles contributing to practice ownership and accountability through leadership behaviors supported by the structural frame of professional governance and integrated into organizational cultures.  

Conference Includes

  • Two-day conference with interactive learning to engage nurses at all levels in decision-making
  • A selection of over 20 breakout sessions designed for nurses in a variety of leadership roles in professional governance
  • Over 20 poster sessions 
  • Networking opportunities with other nurses in professional governance leadership roles

Conference Impact

Attend this one-of-a-kind conference and engage with nurses of all leadership levels to strengthen your leadership skills in professional governance.

Participants will leave equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively lead in professional governance and will recognize the influence they can have to create an environment that engages others in having accountability and responsibility for nursing care.

Intended Audience

Individuals and teams with leadership roles in professional governance—from the chair of a unit council to the CNO of the organization—will benefit from attending. Group participation from the same organization is encouraged.

 

Thank You To Our 2024 Sponsors

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SPECIAL ASSISTANCE

AONL complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and strives to ensure that no individual with a disability is deprived of the opportunity to participate in the program solely by reason of that disability. Through its agents, AONL will provide reasonable accommodations for a candidate with a disability who requests accommodations. Requests can be made by sending a written request 21 days in advance of the program. Contact AONL Education for questions.

Call for Abstracts are Now Open!

Submit an Abstract

August 10-12, 2025
San Antonio

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