NPD Week Resources

Nursing Professional Development (NPD) Week

Celebrating Made Easy

ANPD's collection of NPD Week assets make celebrating yours and your colleagues' accomplishments and contributions a breeze. Click through to find downloadable templates, pre-written materials, and more. 

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Have Some Fun

Take a creative brain break with this NPD themed coloring sheet Celebrate with a sweet treat! Print these stickers, and sandwhich them on a toothpick to add NPD flair to your cupcakes.  Who doesn't love stickers? Print these on a standard label template and distribute them to your team.

Share on Social

Share your NPD Week celebrations on your personal or professional social media channels! Here, we've written some posts that you can copy/paste and personalize. You're also welcome to download and use ANPD's NPD Week images in your posts.

Download social media graphics

Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn

  • We're celebrating #NPDWeek and there's a lot of excitement at [YOUR ORGANIZATION]. We are thrilled to honor the expertise and efforts of nursing professional development specialists who are dedicated to educating and supporting our nurses daily. Celebrate with us at!
  • Celebrate #NPDWeek by taking moment to acknowledge the contributions of nursing professional development practitioners. Extend your gratitude to your colleagues for their expertise and dedication. So many fun ways to celebrate can be found in ANPD's toolkit. 
  • The work we do as nursing professional development practitioners is critical to quality patient and organizational outcomes. Please join me in celebrating nursing professional development practitioners during #NPDWeek! 
  • "Let us never consider ourselves finished, nurses. We must be learning all of our lives." – Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing. Please join me in celebrating the value nursing professional development practitioners bring to their healthcare organizations. #NPDWeek 

X (Twitter)

  • [your organization's Twitter handle] is celebrating #NPDWeek by recognizing the expertise and care of our nursing professional development practitioners.
  • The work #NPD practitioners do is critical to quality patient and organizational outcomes. Celebrate nursing professional development during #NPDWeek! 

Get the Word Out 

  • If you have the opportuntiy to author an article for a local news outlet or your organization's website, let us help you out! This article template is a good start. 
  • Some ANPD members have petitioned their local government to make an official NPD Week proclamation. This is a neat way to raise awareness of the imporant work NPD practitioners do! This proclamation template will help you make the appeal. 
  • List the event on your organization's website, newsletter, or shared event calendar using the text below:

Nursing Professional Development Week
September 14-20, 2024
[insert your organization name]
[insert your location]
www.anpd.org/NPDWEEK
Join us in celebrating Nursing Professional Development Week!
Every year in September, nursing professional development practitioners around the world celebrate NPD Week. [insert NPD or Education Department] invites you to join us in acknowledging all that our NPD colleagues do! Join our festivities September 14-20, 2025. 

Send an Email

Notify Your Organization

Send an email to your organization or facility letting them know that you and your team are celebrating NPD Week...and what that means!

Download a customizable email template

Sign Off with Pride

Keeping NPD Week top of mind is as easy as sending an email. Use this custom email signature during NPD Week, if your organization allows.

Annie PD
Nursing Professional Development Practitioner
(555) 555-5555
anniepd@yourhospital.com
Join me in celebrating NPD Week, September 14-20, 2024!

Hang It Up

This customizable flyer template allows you to post the details of your department's celebration. Print it and cover the walls of your organizations' staff spaces to get the word out.

Download the flyer template