Prepare to take the nursing professional development certification examination offered by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). This study guide has engaging activities to help you be successful when you test.

This first booklet in the ANPD Quick Guide Series provides an overview of needs assessment and insight into various methods of collecting needs assessment data.

This session explores how your team can structure its processes to share the load and ensure content integrity and quality. Prepare to learn how to build infrastructure that supports quick turnarounds, without making things feel complicated.

Is your team aspiring to optimize competency management processes? Do you have a professional development (PD) associate on your team? This session features a high-performing PD associate who augments one organization’s competency management process through creating needs assessments, building curricula, enrolling learners, and running completion reports.

The role of the PD associate is often referred to as the glue of the NPD team, however, what does that mean in terms of expectations, roles, and responsibilities? Join us as we explore throughputs of the NPD practice model, exemplars of PD associates in action, and team dynamics to promote efficiency in practice.

The virtual-hybrid learning environment can be unpredictable and challenges nursing professional development (NPD) team members to be proactive, flexible, and adaptable at a moment's notice. This session explores a variety of lived 'worst-case' scenarios in the virtual-hybrid learning environment.