The ANPD Specialty Spotlight series highlights members furthering NPD goals in unique and invaluable ways. Today, the spotlight is on Nicole Tunque, MSN-Ed, PMH-BC, NPD-BC, who works as a psychiatry population-based nursing professional development specialist at UCLA Health.

As one of the highest honors a healthcare organization can receive for nursing excellence, the Magnet designation is a framework that illuminates the principles that nursing professional development (NPD) practitioners champion every day. While the Magnet designation is an achievement, the real goal is creating an environment where nurses, and their patients, thrive.

In honor of Emergency Preparedness Month, nursing professional development (NPD) practitioners from different regions of the country share how they help healthcare teams build readiness for disasters, downtime events, and other emergencies. NPD teams play a critical role in preparing nurses to respond confidently and maintain safe, high-quality patient care when unexpected challenges arise.