This important 5-day conference is a prime opportunity – particularly for students who are embarking on new career paths in nursing! The conference spans 5 days from March 19th – 23rd, offering maximum flexibility for attending sessions of your choice. The program details will be posted within the next week. So start planning now to clear your calendar for the sessions that you want to attend! If you are involved with a graduate program in nursing as an instructor – make space for your students to participate! If you are a student, be alert that this conference can provide unmatched learning opportunities to enrich your program of study!
Why attend—and why invite your colleagues and students?
- Strengthen doctoral identity as knowledge creators: Help PhD students deepen their identity as creators of nursing knowledge (not just consumers of theory), gaining language and confidence to locate their work within nursing’s disciplinary foundations.
- Bridge theory and practice: Discover fresh, concrete ways to help students ground PhD research and DNP projects in nursing-specific frameworks.
- Model scholarly engagement: Attending with your colleagues and students allows you to show them how nurse scholars interact—how to ask questions, join discussion groups, and learn directly from nurse theorists in a supportive community.
- Strengthen mentor–mentee relationships: Shared scholarly experiences remind students (and all of us) that nursing knowledge is built in relationship—across generations of scholars.
- Build community across borders: The virtual format creates global access and dialogue with nursing colleagues from across the country and around the world.
- Support doctoral student belonging: We are exploring the creation of a Doctoral Student Lounge—a welcoming space where doctoral students can meet peers, form new collegial relationships, and build the scholarly community they need to thrive.
VNTW has become a landmark gathering for those who care deeply about nursing knowledge development. We hope you’ll join us—and we hope that factuly will bring your students into this community so they can experience what it means to become nursologists in practice, not just in theory.