title: Poster presentations in the virtual world.
abstract: This column describes a creative virtual-world approach used by the American Nurses Association Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development to provide an additional venue for continuing nursing education within a large conference format. Hurdles that were overcome in developing a virtual world of poster presentations included determining how to award contact hours, how to secure funding, how to separate sponsorship from the integrity of the learning activity, and how to manage submissions and content.
authors.affiliation: America Nurses Credentialing Center, Silver Spring, MD, USA. rosalind.sloan@ana.org
authors.forename: Rosalind
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sloan
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D010380:Peer Review / Q000379:methods*; D057175:Posters as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface