Congress pain poster competition - call for abstracts
Published: 06 February 2013
The RCN Pain & Palliative Care Forum and the RCN Perioperative Forum are holding a joint event at Congress on Wednesday 24 April at lunchtime, and would like to invite you to present a poster at Congress about your work.
If you have never presented a poster before then this is your chance to do so in an informal, supportive environment.
In order for us to plan this event, we would like you to provide us with short summary of your poster by 10 March 2013.
You can do this by emailing:
- your name
- where you work
- the title of your poster
- a brief summary of your work (no more than100 words)
to sarah-jane.stanley@rcn.org.uk.
A prize will be given for the best poster in each category. There are four main poster categories.
Pain poster categories
1) Complementary symptom management
Describe the complementary measure/s that you use to manage end of life care symptoms in your area of practice, giving examples of improved outcomes. Select this category to show confidence in using things other than medicines to improve patient experience.
2) The End of Life Care Pathway and the use of end of life care tools
Your poster should focus on one of the following:
- Advance Care Planning
- Liverpool Care Pathwa
- Gold Standard Frameworks
Demonstrate how the use of one tool has improved nursing practice and outcomes for patients in your area of work.
3) Acute pain management
- Pain during interventions - for example during surgery
- pain in the recovery room
- pain after surgery
- procedural pain - for example cannulation or bone marrow sampling
- local innovations.
4) Chronic pain management
- Patient-centred care
- using non-drug strategies
- chronic pain in the out-of-hospital setting - for example nursing homes
- local innovations to improve the patient’s quality of life.
We hope to hear from you before 10 March.
With best wishes
Felicia Cox, Pain and Palliative Care Forum Chair
Rosanne Macqueen, Perioperative Forum Chair