NANDA-I 2021 Annual Conference (virtual)

[Hannahbanana, BSN, MSN]

2021 Conference Highlights
The NANDA-I Board in collaboration with the Boston College Marjory Gordon Program for Clinical Reasoning and Knowledge Development will be launching an exciting conference on June 16-17, 2021. The theme for this year’s conference is “More Than a Language: Nursing Diagnosis Communicating Health and the Human Experience”. While the conference will be virtual, the meeting remains the preeminent opportunity for a global discourse about the development and implementation of nursing diagnosis. Many abstract presenters scheduled for last year’s conference will be available to discuss their work.

The details of the program will address some of the key challenges facing nurses in today’s health care environment. While nurses remain true to the mission of caring for the whole human being, it is clear that nursing’s contributions to care outcomes remain unclear, compromising nursing's current impact and future contributions to care delivery. This year’s Conference considers nursing diagnosis as more than a language and encourages a broader look at the opportunities for nursing to increase its visibility by effectively communicating nursing knowledge and using standardized language in practice, education, research, and policymaking.    

Conference keynote speakers this year will be Dr. Connie Delaney and Dr. Peggy Chinn:

Connie Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI
University of Minnesota

Connie White Delaney is Professor & Dean, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota. She also served as Associate Director of the Clinical Translational Science Institute –Biomedical Informatics, and Acting Director of the Institute for Health Informatics (IHI) in the Academic Health Center from 2010-2015. Delaney is the first Fellow in the College of Medical Informatics to serve as a Dean of Nursing. Delaney was an inaugural appointee to the USA Health Information Technology Policy Committee, Office of the National Coordinator, Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She is an active researcher and writer in the areas of national data and information technology standards development for essential nursing and health care, outcomes/safety, data science, and translational science. She serves on numerous health, business/industry and policy boards/advisory committees. She holds a BSN with majors in nursing and mathematics, MA in Nursing, Ph.D. Educational Administration and Computer Applications, and completed postdoctoral study in nursing & medical informatics.


Peggy L. Chinn, RN, PhD, DSc (Hon), FAAN
University of Connecticut

Peggy is Professor Emerita of Nursing at the University of Connecticut, now living in Oakland, CA near her amazing grandchildren. She is the founding Editor of Advances in Nursing Science and authors books and journal articles on nursing theory, feminism and nursing, the art of nursing, and nursing education. She is co-founder and web manager of the Nurse Manifest Project, a project (www.nursemanifest.com) to inspire and empower grass-roots action by nurses to shape the future of nursing and health care based on nursing’s fundamental values. She is a co-founder and web manager of Nursology.net, established in September 2018. Her book and web site focused on cooperative group process, Peace and Power, is grounded in critical feminist theory and nursing philosophy, and is recognized as a model for critical research methods, teaching and learning, community-based practice, and political activism. Her most recent activist project, ongoing, is “Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing”, bringing together nurses of color and white nurses to engage in “truth and reconciliation” as a path to meaningful systemic change.

To register and for the conference program at a glance click here: https://cvent.me/zP7DP9