PARTICIPATING IN SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

International conference should be instructive and lots of fun but it can also be alarming and lonely. For nursing career development it now almost essential that you participate in scientific conferences. Most school of Nursing don't emphasize on how to make the most of the opportunity as part of its curriculum. Today we gonna talk about how you can organize yourself and make the experience scientifically productive and enjoyable. In essence you should travel, see places, meet new people, make friends and identify one or two ideas that you can apply in your work or research.

There are many reasons why you must participate in international conferences most of which are very obvious, such as, eduction. as Nurses we must be in constant pursuit for knowledge. various issues change with time (medical-legal issues, ethics issues, new technology, better ways of approach to care e.t.c.).

Here are some of the major reasons why you should participate:

1. Education - update your knowledge. we learn from other, we learn from our mistake, we learn from other peoples mistakes. listening to other peoples work and listening to their brilliant ideas and sharing what you have to offer is one of the ways you can update your knowledge fast. Scientific materials presented at the conference may be a couple of years ahead of the journals and  five years ahead of text books.
2. Inspiration - Hear new ideas and meet professional leaders. Networking especially on intellectual basis can make your career move to the next level.
3. Evaluation - scientific conference can help you review your own work and plan for the future
4. Presentation -  after conducting a research results must be analyzed and presented somewhere. you can use the journal but a scientific conference is the most effective way of making a great impact since big name and world leaders in medical science attend these conferences, those are the people you need to hear what you have and if they are interested in your work, your career grows.
5. Recreation -  don't forget you supposed to have fun while you are there, relax and enjoy the company and culture around the meeting.

There are many other objectives but the five are the major ones. Participation in a conference need thorough preparation because you don't want to be disappointed with yourself. You must know the focus of the meeting, always double check and see if your work  is in line with the focus of the conference. 

One last thing, a conference should be a healthy mixture of the social and the scientific, and should provide stimulation and renewal, but if you have the choice of a large international conferences and a small on focused on your area of interest, always go for the small one. also you must know that international conference can be addictive.