Volume 17│Issue 1│Special Magnet Confer ence 2025
One way that we support ourselves in our practice and expose ourselves to new ideas and best practice updates is by attending professional conferences. On October 30th—November 1, the ANCC held their 2024 Magnet and Pathway to Excellence Conference in New Orleans, LA. Carilion Clinic supported representation by sending 24 nurses to attend and celebrate our 5th magnet designation. In this special conference edition, we will share some of their notes and takeaways from the sessions they attended. Feel free to reach out to these attendees if you see something of interest in their commentary! On November 21, we welcomed the return of our live Nursing Research Conference: Sparking Innovation & Engagement in Nursing Research and EBP at CRMH! Nurses and other healthcare professionals shared in a day full of internal dissemination, information, and dialogue. From the keynote by Dr. Kim Carter (Nursing Research & EBP at Carilion: It Only Takes a Spark ), to the presentations by our partners in Research & Development and the IRB. Attendees provided wonderful positive feedback and reported feeling more confident in participation in EBP and research after having attended. We wish to remind you that Within REACH submissions are accepted on a rolling basis and that we accept stories and articles related to article critiques, human interest stories, literature reviews, evidence analysis, research, quality improvement, and proposed state or national legislation. Essentially, any story that aligns with our REACH professional model of practice is appropriate for peer review and publication. We would especially like to hear from those of you who have a potential Magnet story for our next certification! We want to share all of the good work you do for your patients and colleagues. By publishing in Within REACH, we have a recorded source of studies with outcomes and contact information and there is the potential to collect other stories for our next Magnet survey! Publishing in the Within REACH may also be an option for the CAP program.