Nursing professional development (NPD) practitioners often spend considerable time organizing, attending, and following up on meetings. Meeting management is an important skill for NPD practitioners to hone. This session will cover principles of effective meeting management, with suggestions for handling common challenges.

This webinar will delve into the factors that ushered the great resignation among nurses and how these factors are being addressed by healthcare leaders and organizations. It will also tackle how investing in nursing professional development strategies may help mitigate this crisis. In addition, nurses will be assisted in developing their own professional development action plan.

Nursing Professional Development (NPD) practitioners partner for practice transitions. This session discusses a structured and supportive orientation for experienced nurses in ambulatory care using an adapted Tiered Skills Acquisition Model® (TSAM®). In this flexible model, nurses demonstrate competency in skills with progressive complexity in an organized manner, fostering increased confidence and the potential for decreased orientation time.

 As education and skills advancement evolves, so must the NPD Practitioner’s recognition of learner achievements. This session features how a creative NCPD Team at an online university collaborated to develop an interprofessional 21st Century Skills for Healthcare Professionals Digital Badge, designing an innovative method to demonstrate clinician education using micro-credentials.

The 4^th edition of the Nursing Professional Development (NPD) Scope & Standards of Practice introduces Standard 9. Respectful and Equitable Practice, which outlines competencies for NPD practitioners to promote social equity in NPD practice. This webinar explores elements of cultural humility, ethical responsibility, social and digital determinants of health, critical consciousness, allyship, and strategies to apply these concepts to NPD practice.

This 5-module, learner-paced, online course is designed to enhance the evidence-based practice (EBP) competencies of NPD practitioners to enable them to fulfill their role as champions for inquiry and mentor other healthcare professionals in the implementation of EBP practices.