Poster Criteria By Type

Please address each section of the criteria separately in your poster abstract based on poster type.

All abstracts should accurately reflect the latest AORN Guidelines for Perioperative Practice and identify which Guideline is being referenced. Clinical process abstracts that might not fit into a Guideline should identify if the intent of position statements or other tools such as orientation resources are reflected.

DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Practice Innovation

These abstracts should depict how your facility is making a difference in disparate patient outcomes. (eg Social determinants of health, unconscious bias, workforce diversity). They will be reviewed by the DEI Patient Committee. We encourage submissions that may be design ideas and not completely implemented to include:

• Identification of problem
• Description of team
• Preparation and planning
• Assessment
• Implementation
• Outcome
• Implications for perioperative nursing

Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster (Clinical issue, Performance Improvement, Quality Initiative, Patient-Centric Care)

The abstract will be reviewed for acceptance based on the below. It will be reviewed by the Global Surgical Conference & Expo Advisory Task Force. What to include in the abstract:

• Description of team
• Preparation and planning
• Assessment
• Implementation
• Outcome
• Implications for perioperative nursing

Research Poster

The abstract will be reviewed for acceptance based on the below. It will be reviewed by the AORN Nursing Research Committee.

• Problem/Purpose
• Literature Review
• Research Question/Hypothesis
• Conceptual Framework
• Methodology
• Data Analysis
• Results
• Conclusions/Discussion
• Perioperative Nursing Implications

*Abstracts for Design/Concept posters may be submitted.

Design/Concept Poster

* A Design/Concept poster is a research poster in progress. It has all the components developed and the results are the only portion missing. These posters, once completed, may be submitted again for the following year.

The abstract will be reviewed for acceptance based on the below. It will be reviewed by the AORN Nursing Research Committee.

• Study question and background information
• Design description
• Methodology

Evidence-Based Practice Poster

The abstract will be reviewed for acceptance based on the below. It will be reviewed by the AORN Nursing Research Committee.

• Clinical Problem/Significance
• Background
• Clinical Question
• Description of Evidenced-Based Protocol
• Implementation of Evidenced-Based Protocol
• Results
• Conclusions/Discussion
• Perioperative Nursing Implications

A virtual poster competition is held before the conference. Authors that wish to enter their poster are asked to have a PDF of the poster ready to submit in January.

Posters are judged on the following criteria and winners are notified before the conference.

Uploaded posters will be displayed in AORN’s virtual poster gallery for conference attendees to review and evaluate for 30 days after the close of the annual meeting.