Enjoy our early registration rate! Same great deal, regardless of when you register.
Make the Aspire Convention your own team retreat. With group registration, we’re making it affordable to attend with your colleagues and arm the team with the tools and resources needed to transform your nursing professional development work. To register at our group rates, email us at registration@anpd.org. From there, we will give you a discount code to use when registering.
Value-Add Options
*Requires additional fees
2-Day Nursing Professional Development Certification Preparation Course
This 2-day NPD Certification Preparation Course prepares participants for the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) NPD exam. The course is beneficial for NPD practitioners preparing for the certification exam.
Contact Hours: 14
Day 1: Sunday, April 4 | 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Day 2: Monday, April 5 | 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Member: $525.00 | Non-Member: $650.00
Greg Durkin, M. Ed., BSN, RN, NPDA-BC
Pre-Convention Workshops - Scheduled on Monday, April 5
Monday, April 5 | 8:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Let the Good Times Roll: Game-Based Pedagogy for Elevating Novice NPD Practitioners
Session Description: Let the good times—and the good games—roll! Today’s learners spend countless hours immersed in gaming for fun, so why not bring that same energy, curiosity, and momentum into nursing professional development? This interactive session invites novice nurse educators and nursing professional development practitioners to explore how game-based pedagogy can jazz up learning, boost engagement, and deepen understanding across a variety of content areas. Participants will experience both low-tech, hands-on games and digital strategies that can be adapted to individual teaching styles, learner needs, and classroom or clinical settings.
Presenter: Michele Deck, MEd, RN, BSN, LCCE, FACCE
Intended Audience: Novice and Competent Nursing Professional Development Practitioners and Specialists
Member: $225.00 | Non-Member: $375.00
Monday, April 5 | 8:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Level Up: Build Your Own Interactive Digital Gamification Learning Games
Session Description: This interactive workshop will empower you with foundational concepts, tools, and techniques for creating learning video games using common business software. Through guided small-group activities, learners will build a digital escape room and a digital adventure game in real time. Regardless of your experience with technology, you will leave this bring-your-own-device workshop with something you can use. So, bring your laptop, and let’s get building!
Presenters: Adam Benner, MSN, RN, and Rob Patton, DNE, RN, NPD-BC
Intended Audience: Competent and Expert Nursing Professional Development Practitioners and Specialists
Member: $225.00 | Non-Member: $375.00
Monday, April 5 | 12:30 – 4:00 p.m.
The Wright Workshop on Competency Management
Session Description: Join us for an amazing journey into the world of competency selection, assessment, and management for all areas. This workshop will give you a clear direction for creating a competency process that is meaningful and addresses your strategic goals, quality interests, and helps all the professionals function at their highest levels.
If you have never been a learner in this workshop, this is a MUST ADD for your nursing professional development toolbox.
Presenter: Donna Wright, MS, RN, NPD-BC
Intended Audience: Novice and Competent Nursing Professional Development Practitioners and Specialists NEW to the Wright Competency Assessment Model™
Member: $225.00 | Non-Member: $375.00
Monday, April 5 | 12:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Project Management Rescue Lab
Session Description: Will your project flourish or flounder? The answer is usually decided long before the outcome is obvious. In this fast-paced, hands-on experience, you'll use project management concepts to diagnose project challenges, rescue struggling initiatives, and test your decision-making skills in real-world scenarios. Through rapid-fire challenges, project failure cases, collaborative problem-solving, and friendly competition, you'll learn practical project management strategies to spot trouble early, engage teams, and keep meaningful work moving forward.
Designed for both solo participants and those attending with their team, all participants will have an energizing opportunity to connect, collaborate, and engage with colleagues across organizations and practice settings. Participants will leave with exclusive project management tools, an actionable framework, practical resources, and hands-on experience applying them to realistic NPD challenges.
Presenter: Lillian Jensen, MSN, RN, CNL, NPD-BC
Intended Audience: Novice and Competent Nursing Professional Development Practitioners and Specialists
Member: $225.00 | Non-Member: $375.00
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: Each Pre-Convention Workshop will provide ANCC NCPD 3 contact hours upon completion.
ANPD Awards Reception
Wednesday, April 7 | 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
Join us for a celebration of inspiration and networking at the ANPD Awards Reception. This premier event shines a spotlight on our NPD trailblazers and visionaries, honoring their innovation, dedication, and transformative contributions to ANPD and the NPD specialty. Enjoy passed hors d’oeuvres and one free drink ticket as we recognize these groundbreaking achievements. Reserve your seat today to celebrate our NPD community!
Fees:
- Members and Non-Members: $25.00
How to add on:
When completing your registration, the ANPD Awards Ceremony Reception and pre-convention sessions listed above will be available for you to select as an add-on within the session tab.
Already registered but want to add on? You can either:
- Log into your ANPD account, navigate to the events tab and click "my events." From there, click the dropdown on your registration and select "Change Sessions" (under other options)
- Log into your ANPD account, click on "View Event Registration Details," then scroll to 2027 Aspire Convention and select "Change Pre-Convention Workshops"
Reach out to registration@anpd.org if you need assistance.
NCPD Contact Hours
Association for Nursing Professional Development will award 19.75 ANCC NCPD contact hours for successful completion of the 2027 Aspire Convention educational activities. Awarding of contact hours is commensurate with participation. Additional ANCC NCPD contact hours are available for registered participants of pre-convention educational activities.
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.
Please note that the amount of contact hours available is subject to change without notice due to convention schedule changes.
Registration Cancellation Policy
ANPD will provide a full refund of registration fees, less an administrative processing fee of $150, for any cancellations received in writing on or before Friday, March 12, 2027. Cancellations should be directed to registration@anpd.org. Telephone cancellations are NOT accepted for refunds. Participants must obtain confirmation of receipt of email from ANPD on or before the cancellation deadline. All refunds will be processed within 14 days of date cancellation received to the original form of payment. On or after Saturday, March 13, 2027, there will be no refunds for registrations cancelled whatsoever. Substitutions can be made, without a fee, by contacting the registration team at registration@anpd.org. Hotel reservations must be cancelled or modified separately and directly with the hotel.