Convention Education

Continuing Education: Association for Nursing Professional Development is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Requirements for Obtaining Contact Hours:

1. Registration for convention
2. Attestation of attendance at sessions claimed for contact hours
3. Completion of online evaluation of sessions attended

Conflict of Interest: Planners disclose no conflict of interest relative to this educational activity. Presenters disclose no conflict of interest relative to this educational activity.

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General Sessions 

G101: Aspire to Transform: Recognize the Benefits of Renewal
Tuesday, July 18 | 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
Michele Deck, MEd, BSN, RN, LCCE, FACCE
Take a guided tour of transformation through the eyes of Annie, as to how the city of New Orleans and Nursing Professional Development have transformed over the last twenty years. Skills, knowledge and practice changes have transformed who we are, the jobs we do, and the changes yet to come. Recognize the barriers and benefits to personal and professional transformation. Aspire to ROCK!

G102: Igniting and Sustaining Evidence-based Practice to Meet the Quadruple Aim in Healthcare
Wednesday, July 19 | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Bernadette Melnyk PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN
This presentation focuses on how an evidence-based approach to care is critical to achieving the quadruple aim in healthcare. The content includes critical components of an evidence-based culture and tactics to achieve and sustain best practices and outcomes. Findings from a new nationwide study of the EBP competencies will be highlighted.

G103: Truths and Myths about Teams: Transforming Our Thinking about Competence
Thursday, July 20 | 9:45 am - 11:15 am
Lorelai Lingard, PhD
The medical community has embraced the notion of "expert teams" as critical to its clinical and educational mandates. But our conventional emphasis on individual competence is ill-suited to training and assessing teamwork. Using stories of clinical teamwork to illustrate, this presentation describes some paradoxical truths and persistent myths about healthcare teamwork, and introduces the concept of “collective competence” as a way of making sense of both.

G104: Partnering to Determine the Scope of Simulation in US Acute Care Hospitals
Thursday, July 20 | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Marie Gilbert DNP, RN, CHSE
Kate J. Morse, PhD, MSN, RN
Krista Kipper, MSN, RN, CHSE
Linda Markey, PhD, MSN, RN
Lygia Lee Arcaro, PhD, RN-BC
Over the past year, ANPD has partnered with the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning to describe the use of simulation in acute care hospitals. This session presents the findings from this first national descriptive study and its implications for NPD practice.

G105: The Power of Transformation
Friday, July 21 | 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Donna Cardillo, RN
This transformational program confronts the inevitability of change in our lives and careers, understanding why we resist change, strategies to embrace change and stay relevant, and how in the end, change will help us to create a vibrant future for ourselves and our profession. Without change there is no growth and if you're not growing you're stagnating!

Participants will learn: Why you need to continuously reinvent yourself; success strategies for professional growth; top techniques for navigating organizational change; and power tools to develop change stamina.

Posters

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Education Session Agenda