ANPD's Educational Emergencies: A Handbook for Preparedness and Response for Nursing Professional Development Practitioners is a robust resource that illuminates the innovative actions taken by NPD practitioners in response to stakeholders’ needs during the pandemic. This handbook offers a compendium of recommendations from the literature as well as our NPD colleagues from Emory Healthcare, Vanderbilt University Medical University and ANPD members who posted on the ANPD Discussion Forum. ANPD’s latest publication is a must have for your resource library and is available in the books section of the ANPD Online Store.

The purpose of this program is to provide the bedside registered nurse with leadership knowledge required to function effectively in a frontline nurse leader (charge nurse) position.

 Trauma-informed professional development (TIPD) is a novel approach for professional development practitioners to help prevent poor mental health outcomes in nurses and enhance recovery. This session provides an introduction to the concept of TIPD and provides examples for application.

As the COVID-19 pandemic surges, the health care community responds by finding ways to meet the evolving needs of patients and staff. Nursing professional development (NPD) teams are integral to creating an implementing innovative solutions to onboard, orient, cross train, and maintain staff competency. This package features several recorded sessions from the 2021 Annual Convention, Aspire to Inclusivity, providing innovative solutions to be considered as the health care community faces the continues surges of this pandemic.

Learn about a creative, engaging, and impactful program that blends online learning and active simulation to develop preceptors to their full potential. This session will enable the learner to incorporate strategies to engage the learner when developing a preceptor workshop.