Nursing Professional Development (NPD) practitioners field countless requests for education, challenging efforts to conduct a thorough performance gap analysis. If the need is not truly education, the gap will remain unclosed. This session reviews an innovative decision-making tool using systems-thinking and environmental scanning approaches to manage requests for education, providing NPD practitioners with an effective strategy addressing this common issue.

To stay afloat in health care today, NPD departments must adapt to brewing storms while navigating waves of change. Utilizing departmental guiding principles and adhering to principles of change management are essential for smooth sailing. This session will discuss redesigning an NPD department using these principles, providing a step-by-step guide to NPD department redesign for successful navigation and shipshape sustainability.

This session will provide NPD practitioners and nurse leaders with a conceptual model grounded in complex relational leadership utilizing professional governance, an inclusive environment and clinical innovation to move into the postpandemic future of nursing practice. 

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.

This text is the first leadership text designed specifically for nursing professional development. It is designed for the NPD department leader and covers general leadership principles, legal/ethical considerations and operational components of departmental management such as human resources management and fiscal responsibility.

ANPD's Human Resources Toolkit for the NPD Practitioner is intended to guide development of position descriptions, competencies, and performance evaluations based on Nursing Professional Development: Scope and Standards of Practice, 3rd Edition.