Walking Through the History of the Nursing Professional Development Specialty 

Celebrating 30 Years of the Association for Nursing Professional Development

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1928	1974	1985
Birth of Our Specialty	Evolution of the Scope & Standards	Disseminating Best Practices — the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development
1989	1989	1990
Founding of the Specialty Organization	Nursing Professional Development Practitioners Proud to Serve	The Affiliate Story Begins
1992	1992	1994
The Advent of Star Search	First American Nurses Credentialing Center Certification for Our Speciality	First Independent Convention
1994	2000	2012
The NPD Practitioner's Library — Two Strong Cornerstones: Getting Started in Nursing Professional Development (1994) and Core Curriculum for Nursing Professional Development (1995)	Awards of Excellence in NPD	Re-Naming and Re-Branding of Our Speciality from the National Nursing Staff Development Organization (NNSDO) to the Association for Nursing Professional Development (ANPD)
2013	2019
ANPD Welcomes First Director of Nursing Professional Development	ANPD Celebrates its 30th Anniversary with over 5,000 Members