Creating an expert poster: from start to complete

Making an expert poster is a fantastic opportunity to share your passions in nursing and have the chance to present your findings at conferences and in your organization. The poster means that you can connect with colleagues within the healthcare industry by demonstrating your knowledge and interest in evidence-based practice.

Creating a poster for the primary time may appear to be a frightening task. What should my specific topic be? Where can I discover a template to create my poster? Do not be afraid! When this process is finished in small steps, creating and developing an expert poster is straightforward.

1. Your topic

Decide what topic you would like to present. If you might be preparing a poster for the organization you’re employed for, confer with your manager and other leaders to narrow the scope and concentrate on what is required. If you might be making a poster for varsity (capstone), confer with your professor about specific requirements.

2. Resources

With a selected topic in mind, you are well in your option to doing all of your research! Research could be tedious, but not should you know where to look. Take advantage of evidence-based, peer-reviewed skilled journals, in addition to skilled organizations and other reputable resources. Remember that your references should support your topic and have been published recently (a very good rule of thumb is 5 years or earlier). Your organization and college may additionally have search tools they recommend for beneficial references.

3. Do you conduct research?

If you might be undertaking a research project to your poster, be sure you’ve loads of time to acquire and review research data. Please note that you might need additional time should you need approvals or guidance from an Institutional Review Board (IRB) or an independent ethics committee, or if you could obtain a research contract. Conducting your individual research takes time, especially if you could gather conclusions or perform statistical evaluation. Contact colleagues and/or professors who can assist interpret your research results.

4. Poster

Once you’ve all the knowledge and data, you’ll be able to start constructing your poster! Remember that the poster ought to be direct, concise and attract readers’ attention. Present your key findings in order that other reviewers of your poster can quickly learn crucial facts.

5. Organizing content

You will find that you’re going to have limited space to present your findings in your poster. Therefore, it’s crucial to arrange the materials in a logical order on the poster. Be sure to incorporate any skilled photos, charts, and graphs you would like to include. Consider this sample outline:

• Title
• Abstract
• Background
• Intention
• method
• Results
• Application

6. Creating a poster

Once you’ve all the knowledge, it is time to put it in your poster. (Tip: Templates can be found in Microsoft PowerPoint.) When adding information, ask yourself: “If someone looked at my poster without me, would they be able to easily understand the information in it?” Make sure your poster is reader-friendly, direct, and can expand readers’ knowledge of the subject.

7. Poster review

Before you submit your poster for presentation or send it to print, proofread the poster and ask one other colleague to read it. Ask reviewers whether the poster reads well and whether the knowledge is obvious. If you would like to print a poster, please read the specifications regarding the dimensions of the poster and any items that ought to or mustn’t be included on it. Your organization or university can print it free of charge or at an affordable price.

8. Poster presentation

Your poster has been printed and you’ll be able to now display it for others to see! Please remember to bring items needed to display your poster unless they can be found to you. Please bring color copies of the poster for everybody to take home, and your corporation card so others can contact you in the event that they have further questions on your arrangements. As you stand along with your poster, be happy with this achievement and involve others in reviewing your findings!

I hope that now that you have created your first skilled poster, you may be inspired to create one other one. In an upcoming blog I’ll discuss my very own skilled poster that I recently created!