Call for Abstracts

ABSTRACT RESOURCES

• Submission Guidelines
• Grading Rubric

KEY DATES

• Submission deadline: April 30, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. (CT)
  • No abstracts may be submitted or will be considered after the deadline.
• Grading deadline: July 31, 2026
• Notification deadline: All presenters will be notified of their acceptance status no later than Sept. 4, 2026

Abstract submissions will be submitted under one of the following topics:

1. Rapid Induction: 30-Minute Hot Takes: Rapid-fire, high-energy sessions (TED-style) delivering concise, provocative perspectives on emerging issues, research, or innovations in nurse anesthesiology education and leadership.
2. Career Compass: Building Your Professional Path: Explores the evolving career journey of CRNAs—from early practice to roles in faculty, leadership, education, and research. Sessions should emphasize career development, mentorship, professional transitions, and pathways into advanced roles, including how emerging technologies such as AI may shape future opportunities and career sustainability.
3. Power Moves: Leading People, Programs & Change: Focuses on leadership in action – equipping educators, administrators, and clinical leaders to drive meaningful impact within programs and institutions including program administration, accreditation, and compliance. Sessions may feature panels or case-based discussions on leading through workforce and faculty shortages, managing conflict, navigating organizational change, making high-stakes decisions, and responsibly integrating innovations such as AI into educational and clinical systems.
4. AHA Moments: Teaching, Simulation & the Future of Education: Focuses on transformative approaches to CRNA education through innovation in teaching, assessment, and mentorship. Submissions should highlight strategies that enhance learning outcomes, promote inclusion, leverage simulation-based education, advance assessment practices, support faculty development, and explore emerging educational models.
5. Professional Resilience: Keeping Your Edge: Focuses on sustaining career longevity and well-being, this track welcomes abstracts that address personal and professional resilience, mental health, and strategies for maintaining balance and fulfillment in demanding roles.
6. Student Success: Supporting, Challenging & Preparing RRNAs: Focuses on issues impacting RRNAs across the educational continuum, including recruitment, retention, progression, assessment, remediation, well-being, and readiness for clinical practice. Sessions may address student support strategies, learning differences, professionalism concerns, generational dynamics, mental health, and the role of faculty, simulation, and emerging technologies (including AI) in fostering student success.