Share Your Expertise. Shape the Future of Transcultural Nursing

✍️ Call for Abstracts:  52nd Annual Transcultural Nursing Society Conference
📅 October 14–17, 2026 • San Antonio, Texas
🌍 Theme: Transcultural Nursing: Building Bridges for Global Health Equity

The Transcultural Nursing Society invites nurses, scholars, students, and global partners to contribute their work to the 52nd Annual TCNS Conference. This is your opportunity to elevate the field, amplify culturally diverse voices, and advance global health equity through research, practice innovations, education, and leadership.

Each year, the Call for Abstracts brings forward the most compelling ideas shaping transcultural nursing. Whether you are conducting groundbreaking research, implementing culturally congruent clinical practices, leading community initiatives, or developing new educational or leadership models, your work has a place on this international stage.

🎯 Conference Learning Outcomes

Presentations should support the conference’s learning outcomes. By the end of the conference, participants will be able to:

  • Analyze global healthcare challenges through the perspectives of culturally diverse nurses and populations.
  • Apply transcultural nursing theories and evidence‑based models to enhance culturally congruent care.
  • Incorporate a transcultural lens in education, research, leadership, and multidisciplinary practice.
  • Evaluate ethical frameworks guiding equitable and culturally responsive healthcare.

Why Your Contribution Matters

Your abstract can help:

  • Expand the global body of transcultural nursing knowledge.
  • Highlight culturally responsive strategies that improve health outcomes.
  • Inspire colleagues across clinical, academic, and community settings.
  • Strengthen ethical, equitable, and culturally congruent care worldwide.
  • Build your professional visibility and global network.

Submission Timeline

🗓️Deadline for all abstracts: May 15, 2026

The Call for Abstracts opened in November 2025. Early submissions are encouraged.

 

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 2026

General Information

The Transcultural Nursing Society (TCNS) invites abstract submissions for podium, poster, symposium, and panel presentations for the 52nd Annual Conference. Submissions from all healthcare disciplines, as well as from students, clinicians, educators, administrators, and researchers, are strongly encouraged.

Membership in TCNS is encouraged but not required for abstract submission.

TCNS welcomes:

• Research presentations (qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods)
• Evidence‑based practice (EBP) presentations
• Non‑research symposium presentations
• Panel presentations
• Posters representing research, QI, EBP, literature reviews, pilot projects, and innovative practice initiatives

TCNS values diversity in:

• Topics
• Theories and theorists
• Conceptual frameworks
• Models
• Methodologies
• Global and cultural perspectives

Presentation Format Definitions

Podium Presentation:  A 45‑minute oral presentation followed by 10 minutes of audience questions and discussion. Podium sessions highlight completed work or well‑developed scholarly contributions to transcultural nursing.

Poster Presentation:  Posters are presented electronically during breakfast discussion tables and are also posted online. Posters may include completed studies, ongoing research, preliminary analyses, literature reviews, or non‑research projects.

Symposium Presentation:  A non‑research–based session following the same time structure as a podium presentation (45 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A). Symposiums include coordinated presentations from multiple contributors addressing a shared transcultural nursing topic.

Panel Presentation:  Panels consist of three to four related abstracts presented within a single, integrated one‑hour session, including 10 minutes for audience questions and discussion. Panels emphasize thematic cohesion and integration of perspectives.

Abstract Submission Requirements

All abstracts must:

• Address the conference theme and learning objectives
• Be blinded (no names, institutions, or identifying information)
• Be submitted through the secure online submission system
• Be limited to 500 words (excluding title and keywords)
• Contain no reference list
• Include a section on the significance or relevance to transcultural nursing

Ethical and Regulatory Requirements

• Research and Quality Improvement (QI) projects must have undergone Institutional Review Board (IRB) review.
• Research involving Indigenous populations must include:
• Approval from the appropriate council or governing body of the Indigenous community
• IRB approval from the author’s institution if human subjects are involved

Research‑Specific Requirements

• Only completed research will be accepted for podium presentations.
• Research‑based abstracts should follow the IMRAD structure:  Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion.

Poster Eligibility

Posters may include:

• Pilot projects
• Ongoing research
• Preliminary analyses
• Literature reviews
• Non‑research projects
• Innovative practice initiatives

Originality of Work

Abstracts must represent:

• New work
• Gold‑standard information
• Original ideas, concepts, improvements, or revisions of existing concepts

Presenter Requirements

• The individual submitting the abstract must attend and present at the conference.
• Substitutions of presenters are not permitted.
• All presenters (podium and poster) must register for the conference and attend in person.
• Presenters must register by September 15, 2026, or the presentation will be removed from the program.
• Registration fees are non‑refundable after this date.

Review Process and Evaluation Criteria

All abstracts are evaluated using the TCNS standardized review rubric, which reflects professional nursing organization standards.

Criteria include:

• Alignment with conference theme and objectives
• Clarity of purpose, aims, or goals
• Contribution to transcultural nursing
• Significance and relevance
• Adherence to abstract guidelines
• For research: IMRAD structure, methodological rigor, results, and implications

Submission Deadline
The abstract submission deadline is May 15, 2026, at midnight Eastern Daylight Time.

Questions?
Please contact: staff@tcns.org

Informative Links
• APA Inclusive Language Guidelines: https://www.apa.org/about/apa/equity-diversity-inclusion/language-guidelines