ANPD’s Queen City affiliate was built by nursing professional development (NPD) practitioners doing what they do best: identifying a need and then working together to fill it. The collaboration has become a tight-knit community for learning, innovation, mentorship, and professional growth. 

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.