Purpose

Elevate your career with ANPD's Nursing Professional Development (NPD) Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Academy, designed to enhance EBP competence and confidence in NPD practitioners across diverse healthcare settings. Gain knowledge, develop vital skills, establish professional connections, and make a lasting impact while growing as a champion for scientific inquiry, leader, and EBP mentor.

Overview

Discover the NPD EBP Academy, an 8-month-long, mentored program focused on the steps of the EBP process, the NPD role in EBP, and supporting a culture of EBP. The academy consists of virtual seminars, self-paced asynchronous learning, and one-on-one mentorship with an NPD EBP expert. An evidence-based project is completed throughout the program, culminating in an opportunity for dissemination to anational audience through ANPD.

ANPD Partners with to provide OVID Synthesis to academy participants and mentors. OVID Synthesisis an innovative platform helping participants move forward from current practice to best practice as aspiring and new EBP leaders in nursing professional development.

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 2026-2027 EBP Academy Applications Are Now Open

The deadline to apply as an EBP Academy participant or mentor is Monday, June 22, 2026, at 11:59 PM CT. 

Participant Qualifications

• NPD Practitioner
• Role in advancing EBP in their practice setting
• Desire to enhance your EBP knowledge

Participant Responsibilities

• Complete pre-and post-assessment
• Attend the 2027 Aspire Convention (April 4-8, 2027, in New Orleans, LA)
• Attendance and participation in synchronous virtual seminars
• Complete required professional development activities
• Adhere to established timelines
• Actively engage in all program components
• Disseminate findings from the initiative via an ANPD program

Recognition/Reward

• Enhanced Professional Development
• Networking with NPDs from across the Country
• Recognition at the annual Aspire Convention with a certificate of completion
• Pin
• Digital Badge
• EBP initiative eligible to be presented to a National audience through ANPD

Application Process

Space is intentionally limited to 15 participants to ensure high quality, meaningful learning experience.

• Complete online application
• Submit CV/resume (through online application)
• Through the online application, provide a letter of support from your leader at your employer that addresses all of the following:
  • Support for participation in all components of the EBP Academy
  • Support for 2027 ANPD Aspire Convention attendance
  • Support for completion of EBP initiative (oversight/mentoring/necessary resources, including time)
  • Support for initiative dissemination

Tuition Rates:

• Members: $1,200
• Non-Members: $1,700

Apply to be a participant

ANPD is looking for qualified mentors who embody the spirit of inquiry and are eager to serve as experts and change agents for participants. As a volunteer mentor, you will leverage your skills and experience to make a positive impact on an NPD colleague. If selected, you will have an orientation and guidance alongside the facilitator. Mentors in previous academies have found this role to be both rewarding and meaningful, while also enhancing their own practice.

Mentor Qualifications

• Certified in NPD
• Master’s degree in nursing or higher
• Current ANPD member
• 3-5 years’ experience in EBP
• EBP Certificate holder preferred

Mentor Responsibilities 

• Attend introductory mentor orientation and seminars (virtual)
• Meet regularly with the provided mentee
• Support the mentee’s Initiative through:
  • Advising as needed
  • Facilitating mitigation of barriers
  • Promoting adherence to the timeline
  • Providing resources and networking
  • Validating completion of deliverables

Mentor Benefits

• Contributing to the professional development and Spirit of Inquiry in NPD professionals
• Recognition at the annual Aspire Convention
• Pin
• Digital Badge

Application Process

• Complete the online application
• Submit resume/CV through the online application

Apply to be a Mentor

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2024-2025 NPD EBP Academy Participants

2022-2023 NPD EBP Academy Participants

2021-2022 NPD EBP Academy Participants

2020-2021 NPD EBP Academy Participants

2019-2020 NPD EBP Academy Participants

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Continuing Education

Association for Nursing Professional Development is accredited with distinction as aprovider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.Outcome-based continuing education will be offered. Outcome measures are defined by specific and measurable variables by which attainment of objectives will be judged. Throughout the program, participants are eligible to meet levels of outcome-based continuing education.

Refund Policy

Tuition for the ANPD EBP Academy may be refunded up to 30 days before the start of the EBP Academy Program and will be subject to the withholding of an assessment fee, along with a $150 processing fee. Refunds are processed by the method in which they were paid.

No refunds will be granted less than 30 days before the start of the program.

Participants who do not complete the assignments and expectations of the EBP Academy will be considered to have voluntarily withdrawn. No refund will be granted, and participants will only be eligible for continuing education for completed activities.