Summary: In 2005, a major train crash with 107 victims occurred in the Hyogo Prefecture. The victims’ families reported not having been attended to by the medical community. In 2006, various medical professionals formed the Japanese Research Society for DMORT to discuss this problem. Victim family care was exclusively done by the police. DMORT approached the police to collaborate and develop a methodology for mental health support for the victims’ families. Various activities were pursued: 11 closed seminars with victim families of various disasters, 30 training courses for disaster responders, frequent workshops in medical or nursing conferences, participation in local disaster drills, and mental health care manuals for relief workers. Since 2009, DMORT has developed a relationship with the Hyogo prefectural police, but in several disasters in other prefectures in the early 2010s, the local police rejected DMORT’s assistance. Furthermore, the ‘research society’ status confused disaster-affected people. In the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, upon the advice of the Hyogo police department, the Kumamoto police allowed DMORT to provide relief work for the families of 17 victims. This experience made the police recognize their limited care without medical knowledge, while DMORT recognized the necessity of legal qualification. In 2017, the Japan DMORT Association was established as a general incorporated association. After the reorganization, DMORT made official agreements with ten prefectural police departments and became official members of crime/disaster victims support liaison councils in several prefectures. Regarding disaster relief activities with police, DMORT conducted a 10-day operation to attend to three families in the Atami mudflow disaster in 2021 and an 11-day operation to attend to 126 families in the Noto Peninsula Earthquake in 2024. DMORT aims to provide mental support to disaster victims’ families, in collaboration with the police, and to promote a DMORT mindset among disaster responders.

Poster Abstracts Presented at the Fall 2025 National Neonatal Nurses Conference

Abstracts from the 17th International Family Nursing Conference held in Perth Australia, June 17-20, 2025

Traditional conference presentations may not engage audiences, particularly in virtual or lengthy formats. Therefore, our nursing conference committee adopted the PechaKucha (PechaKucha, Inc.) presentation style, characterized by concise, visually engaging storytelling. This study evaluates the effect of this format on engagement, presenter experience, and logistical efficiency. This quality improvement project piloted PechaKucha presentations, which feature 20 slides auto-advancing every 20 seconds, at our annual conference. Presenters received training in the use of this format, and both presenters and attendees completed postconference surveys assessing engagement and satisfaction. We used thematic analysis and descriptive statistics to evaluate feedback. Attendees found the PechaKucha format engaging, with 68% rating it outstanding. Although presenters reported challenges with rigid timing, many enjoyed the presentation style. The format enabled more presentations within the conference schedule while maintaining attendee engagement. Pecha Kucha fosters engagement and logistical efficiency, although increasing preparation resources and timing flexibility could enhance its implementation.

Special Issue: 49th International Mental Health Nursing Conference (ACMHN) 2025 10-12 September 2025 Meanjin, Brisbane.

Poster Abstracts Presented at the Spring 2025 Poster and Podium Abstracts National Neonatal Nurses Conference

Reflections on the 8th World Society of Disaster Nursing Conference—Preface

Special Issue: The ACMHN 48th International Mental Health Nursing Conference, 30 October 2024 - 1 November 2024, Perth, Western Australia.

Poster Abstracts Presented at the Fall 2024 National Neonatal Nurses Conference

Background: Attending conferences is a vital part of professional and career advancement. Conference aids health-care professionals to keep up-to-date with important research, learn directly from experiences, share best practices, and develop new skills and techniques. Aims and Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of the conference on knowledge regarding mental well-being across lifespan. Methodology: A quantitative approach and pre experimental research was used. All the participants who have attended the conference were selected as study subjects which constituted 200 subjects. A structured questionnaire containing 20 items was prepared, validated and used for the study. Results: majority of the participants (80%) were between the age group of 20-25 years. Major portion of the participants (77%) were UG students. It was found that in pre-test only very few participants (5.5%) had adequate knowledge, which was increased to 63% in post-test. Conclusion: The study revealed that the conference was effective in terms of improving the knowledge regarding mental well-being across lifespan. Keywords: State level mental health nursing conference, mental well-being, lifespan, conference participants.

As a "foursome" of nursing history students and scholars, upcoming, junior, and seasoned, we presented a panel on new work and possibilities related to histories of Blackness and Black nurses in Canadian nursing history. Our presentation was the 2023 keynote Hannah Panel Presentation for the joint Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM-SCHM) and the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing (CAHN-ACHN) conference. Reflecting and expanding our perspectives, we share the relevance and significance of engaging with histories of Canadian Blackness and (in)visibility of Blackness in nursing history. This paper considers the overarching question of how does engaging with histories of Canadian Blackness serve as an anti-racist strategy when examining, analyzing and understanding the history of nursing and health care? A core tenant of this work aims at acknowledging how institutional relationships of power are reproduced within scholarship unless there is space for radical re-imaginations. The disruption to power is achieved by exploring the connections between nursing and history from the perspective of Black nurses' history or Black feminist thought. We also disrupt power by our form, in challenging expectations of scientific inquiry as the only format of valid knowledge production within the discipline. Possibilities of arts-based methodology as a site for democratization in nursing knowledge are evoked through the metaphoric language (water, fire, air and earth) interwoven within the text. We highlight how each of us engages with nursing history, further complicating previous narratives of our collective Canadian past. In publishing our thoughts on historical inquiry in a nursing journal, we hope to provoke more curiosity and interest in history within our discipline as a site for liberation!

Poster Abstracts Presented at the Spring 2024 Advanced Practice Neonatal Nurses Conference

The path to increasing and fostering the Māori and Pacific nursing workforce in Aotearoa New Zealand is multifaceted and requires Indigenous solutions. As part of a national workforce programme to increase Māori and Pacific enrolled nurses in primary healthcare, the workforce team developed and supported a whakarōpū (collective grouping) to attend and present at the National Enrolled Nurse Conference. This paper reports on the experiences of five Māori and two Pacific nurses, together with three senior Indigenous nurse leaders, as a whakarōpū. Ongoing kōrerorero (conversations), both face-to-face and online, was the primary data source; however, participants also provided written and verbal feedback. Through kaupapa kōrero, a collective analysis of the data was conducted. To mitigate the barriers created by a dominant Western-centric learning culture, whakarōpū is a successful example of how to foster flourishing learning experiences for Māori and Pacific nurses. Keeping Māori and Pacific nurses connected, participating, and maintaining dialogue is essential for their collective professional development and cultural growth. The whakataukī, waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa (let us keep close together, not wide apart), describes the weaving of people, and their aspirations as Māori and Pacific nurses who feel prepared to lead and provide culturally responsive care for their communities. Supporting whakarōpū is essential for Māori and Pacific nurses to develop cultural connections, enable clinically and culturally safe spaces, and feel empowered and prepared for leadership. Te reo Māori translation Ko te Whakarōpū, he Tauira Whai Painga Poipoi i te Whakapakaritanga Ngaio me te Tupunga Ahurea me tētahi Rōpū Tapuhi Māori, Moana-nui-a-Kiwa hoki Ngā Ariā Matua He tini ngā pekanga o te ara whakapiki, poipoi hoki i te ohu kaimahi tapuhi Māori, Moana-nui-a-Kiwa hoki, ā, me kimi hoki he rongoā nā ngā iwi taketake i te tuatahi. I whakawhanaketia e te tira kāhui kaimahi tētahi ohu whakarōpū (collective grouping) kia tae atu, kia tāpae kōrero hoki ki te Hui ā-Motu o ngā Tapuhi Rēhita, hei wāhanga o tētahi hōtaka ohu kaimahi ā-motu e whai nei ki te whakapiki i ngā tapuhi Māori, me ō Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. E tāpae kōrero ana tēnei tuhinga mō ngā kitenga a ētahi tapuhi Māori, Moana-nui-a-Kiwa hoki e rima, tae atu ki ētahi kaihautū tapuhi taketake mātāmua tokotoru, hei ohu whakarōpū. I noho ko ngā kōrerorero ā-kanohi, tuihono hoki hei puna raraunga tuatahi; ahakoa rā, i tāpaetia hoki e ngā tāngata whai wāhi mai ētahi whakaaro ā-tuhi, ā-kōrero hoki. I kawea ngā tātaritanga tōpū nā roto i ngā kaupapa kōrero. Hei kaupare i ngā maioro nā te ahurea akoranga o whenua kē i whakaara, he mea pai te ohu whakarōpū hei penapena i ngā wheako akoranga mō ngā tapuhi Māori, ō Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa hoki. He mea taketake te whai kia honohono ngā tapuhi Māori, me ō Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, kia whai wāhi tonu, kia kōrerorero tonu mō tō rātou mahi whakapakari ngaio, tupunga ahurea hoki. E ai rā te whakataukī, waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa (let us keep close together, not wide apart), kei reira te tauira o te whakapipiri i te tangata, me ō rātou wawata hei tapuhi Māori, Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa hoki, kua oti te whakangungu hei kaiarataki, hei kaikawe taurimatanga tika ā-ahurea hoki mō ō rātou hapori. He mea taketake te tautoko i ngā ohu whakarōpū mā ngā tapuhi Māori, me ō Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa hei whakawhanake i ngā hononga ahurea, hei whakarite wāhi haumaru ā-tiakinga tūroro, ā-ahurea hoki, kia piki anō tō rātou mana, kia tika te tū ki te ārahi i ētahi atu.

Poster Abstracts Presented at the Fall 2023 Neonatal and Advanced Practice Neonatal Nurses Conference.

In 2023, on the occasion of the International Advanced Practice Nurse Conference, which took place from June 20 to 25, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, the nurse and professor, Dr. Beatriz Rosana Gonçalves de Oliveira Toso, president of this Brazilian Society of Pediatrician Nurses, vice president of the Red de Enfermería Practica Avanzada de Latino-America y el Caribe, member of the International Council of Nurses Advanced Practice Nurse/ Nurse Practitioner (ICN APN/NP) Research Subgroup, professor of the Nursing Course and [...]

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Poster Abstracts Presented at the Spring 2023 Advanced Practice Neonatal Nurses Conference

Back in Live Action: The 2023 International Rural Nurses Conference

Rebekah Hill celebrates the 10th National Gastrointestinal Nursing Conference

are co-hosting this important conference.The Rural Nurse Organization (RNO) is, as always, the primary sponsor of the conference.In full disclosure, the Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care is the official journal of the RNO.If you are a member of the RNO or a registered user of the Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care you will be receiving emails with save the date information on the conference as well as the call for abstracts.The 2023 INRC is focused on bringing together rural and remote nurses, other healthcare professionals, educators, and researchers to address the unique and varied health aspects of rural and remote communities focusing on culture/social determinates of health, global health, policy, and interdisciplinary professional issues.The board categories for abstracts include the focus areas of:• Culture/social determinates of health,•