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Enhance your professional development at the ANPD Virtual Symposium. This unique education offering includes both live and on-demand sessions, as well as virtual poster presentations, and allows the opportunity to earn up to 11.75 nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) contact hours.
In addition to attending the live event on November 7, registration includes access to all live and recorded sessions and posters for 30 days following the event, so you have time to take in all the learning on your own schedule!
Disclosure: Schedule and speakers are subject to change with additional content added to the event.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists, NPD nurse leaders, PD associates, nursing education instructors and faculty, nurses who facilitate education of healthcare professionals, nurse leaders, managers, and executives
Outcome: 65% of participants will report that each session provides information that enhances, validates, or causes a change in practice.
Successful Completion: Successful completion to obtain NCPD contact hours includes registration for symposium, attestation of attendance at sessions claimed for contact hours, and completion of the online evaluation for sessions attended.
Continuing Education: Association for Nursing Professional Development is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Contact Hours: up to 11.75
Expiration: December 6, 2023
Disclosure: No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies exist for anyone in a position to control the content of this activity.
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted that the United States fares negatively compared to other countries in healthcare quality, spending, and access. This presentation addresses how biases and health system policies and programs can impact healthcare outcomes. Actionable steps to mitigate the impact of bias on quality care outcomes will be shared.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists, PD associates, NPD nurse leaders, nursing education instructors and faculty, simulation educators, nurses who facilitate education of healthcare professionals, nurse leaders/managers/executives, all RNs
Audience Level: novice, competence, expert
Although preceptors are critical to the transition of nursing students and nurses into professional practice, new settings, and new specialties, consensus on the required preceptor competencies was lacking. The national, multi-year, multi-phased ANPD Preceptor Competency Consensus Study addressed this gap. Join us to discover the competencies that should be included in your preceptor development initiatives as well as to learn about the competency consensus process.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists, NPD nurse leaders, nursing education instructors and faculty, simulation educators, nurses who facilitate education of healthcare professionals, nurse leaders/managers/executives
Audience Level: novice, competence, expert
We've practiced how to calculate ROI, but NPD practitioners still struggle with transforming their economic impact to clear demonstration of NPD value. This session will discuss: WHO are your stakeholders, HOW do you communicate with them, WHAT is organizational savvy, and WHEN to advocate for NPD practitioner development. By increasing the NPD sphere of influence, the value of NPD becomes more transparent.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists, PD associates, NPD nurse leaders, nurse leaders, managers, and executives
Audience Level: novice, competence, expert
Nurse turnover rates are skyrocketing. A healthy work environment is linked to less burnout, job dissatisfaction, and intent to leave. The purpose of this session is to share insights, knowledge and rools to support change projects that promote healthier workplaces to improve nurse retention.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists, PD associates, NPD nurse leaders, nursing education instructors & faculty, nurses who facilitate education of healthcare professionals, nurse leaders, managers, and executives, all registered RNs
Audience Level: novice and competent
Frontline nurse leaders are pivotal to patient outcomes while supporting colleagues and managing to day-to-day operations. Learn how two nursing professional development specialists created a six-month fellowship program for charge nurses focused on wellbeing and advanced leadership training to meet the challenges of the evolving and complex healthcare environment.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists, PD associates, NPD nurse leaders, simulation educators, nurses who facilitate education of healthcare professionals, nurse leaders, managers, and executives, all registered RNs
Audience Level: novice, competent, and expert
Experience what it takes to redesign a comprehensive NPD Practitioner orientation program aligning with the NPD Scope and Standards of Practice. Navigate the process of implementation highlighting the redesign process, recruitment strategies, engagement, and retention. Evaluate the impact of integrating an immersive mentored gap analysis project to achieve unit and organizational outcomes.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists, NPD nurse leaders, nurse leaders, managers, and executives
Audience Level: novice, competent, and expert
In this presentation learners will explore common challenges faced when integrating project-based learning into nurse residency programs and tangible solutions to enhance project completion while meeting the needs of modern learners.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists, NPD nurse leaders, nurses who facilitate education of healthcare professionals, nurse leaders, managers, and executives
Audience Level: competent
Embark with us on our journey to implement an NPD Senior Specialist role to meet the needs of a growing healthcare system. Discover how these new nursing professional development specialist roles were created and how their work impacts a large multi-site organization.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists, PD associates, NPD nurse leaders, nurses who facilitate education of healthcare professionals, nurse leaders, managers, and executives
Audience Level: expert
Transition to practice programs are often thought of exclusively as programs for new graduate nurses in acute care environments. Learn about one team's implementation and evaluation of a novel transition-to-nursing practice program in a nonprofit home healthcare agency within a large medical academic center. Highlights will include necessary resources, curricular design, and outcome metrics including program satisfaction, job satisfaction, and retention.
The Association for Nursing Professional Development thanks the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development and Wolter's Kluwer for providing to Symposium participants the presenters' article, Implementation and Evaluation of a Home Healthcare Nursing Transition-to-Practice Pilot Program. Article access will close on December 6th, 2023. Access the article here: https://journals.lww.com/jnsdonline/fulltext/2022/03000/implementation_and_evaluation_of_a_home_healthcare.8.aspx
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists, NPD nurse leaders
Audience Level: competent and expert
The nursing shortage has changed how we analyze and approach the delivery of health care. Leveraging clinician expertise and top-of-scope practice can positively impact quality outcomes, the patient experience, and nurse satisfaction. Learn how one system developed and implemented a pharmacy-nursing alliance to achieve these outcomes, leveraging interprofessional collaboration to transform how medication-related care is administered in pilot units to maximize efficiency and effectiveness while meeting patient care needs.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists, PD associates, NPD nurse leaders, nursing education instructors and faculty, nurse leaders, managers, and executives
Audience Level: novice, competent, and expert
Learn about the wealth of resources found in the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists
Audience Level: novice and competent
ANPD's 2023 Aspire Convention included this inspiring Game Changer presentation, which provides information and strategies for reentry into the post-COVID environment with contagious excitement, energy, and effectiveness. We will be reminded about who we are, the power in our service, and feel empowered to reclaim our edge!
Note: This session is a recording of a 2023 Aspire session. If you previously claimed contact hours for this session when attending the 2023 Aspire Convention, you may not claim contact hours a second time.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists, PD associates, NPD nurse leaders
Audience level: novice and competent
ANPD's Star Search encourages aspiring speakers to compete for an opportunity to present a concurrent session at the next Aspire convention, and an opportunity for novice speakers to develop their presentation skills. This session features the 4 competitors of the 2023 Aspire Covention Star Search as they present on preceptor burnout and overall support, effective preceptor incentives, learner engagement through gamification, and driving change with simulation.
Note: This session is a recording of a 2023 Aspire session. If you previously claimed contact hours for this session when attending the 2023 Aspire Convention, you may not claim contact hours a second time.
Target Audience: NPD practitioners, NPD specialists
Audience Level: novice and competent