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Collaborative efforts can yield exponential results. Learn how a dynamic hospital/academic partnership created local solutions to the nursing shortage, creating a pipeline of new graduate nurses poised to grow from nursing student to nursing colleague while supported by a team of clinical and academic experts.

Unleash your inner NPD Undercover Agent! This session will decode secrets to crafting epic education using gamification and leveraging technology in novel ways for both NPD professional development and the development of the clinicians you support. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Transform learners into agents of knowledge. Register now before this message self-destructs!

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 session will provide practical tips and solutions for those newly navigating nursing professional development in the nurse educator role.  From determining an educational need to defining a learning outcome and more, participants new to the NPD role will be provided with a plethora of useful information.