2025 Pathways to Knowledge Nursing Education Conference

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LIVEANCCIn-person

Friday, May 9, 2025, 7:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST, The Westin Richmond, Richmond, VA

Nursing Professional Development (NPD) practitioners and other health care educators serve in a variety of settings to influence and facilitate professional growth of learners. Join us for the 2025 Pathways to Knowledge Nursing Education Conference to ignite your passion, inspire yourself and others, and innovate your practice to promote optimal patient outcomes. Leave empowered, engaged, and energized to transform the future of professional development.

1. Explain ways to design, implement, evaluate and support nursing education programs by exploring best practices in learning and development across the learning continuum.
2. Develop a simulation scenario using the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice
3. Identify the importance of Nurse Residency Programs
4. Define methods of design improvement
5. Analyze the concept of implicit bias and evaluate its effects on teaching practices and student interactions
6. Identify strategies to recognize microaggressions and apply inclusive and culturally responsive teaching methods in their classrooms.
7. Explain the relationship between implicit bias and student achievement and design strategies to foster equitable learning environments.
8. Identify orientation best practices for nurses new to practicing in the United States
9. Recognize key nursing practice differences for nurses who have worked internationally
10. Identify strategies to prepare and support nursing leaders and preceptors to onboard global nurses
11. Develop and implement needs assessments for NPD specialists and unit-based educators to design annual competencies

Registration is now closed.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Central Virginia Association of Nursing Professional Development and VCU Health Continuing Education. VCU Health Continuing Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

VCU Health designates this activity for a maximum of 6.0 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Accommodation
All participants have the right to participate in this continuing education activity without discrimination due to age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, language, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, sex (sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and pregnancy), protected veteran status, marital status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you need accommodations to participate in this activity, please contact us at [email protected] for more information. Requests for accommodations must be received 21 days prior to activity start date.

Complaint Policy and Resolution Process
All complaints must be made in writing to [email protected].

All complaints will be logged into the complaint log. The Director, Continuing Education will attempt to resolve the complaint within the first contact, when possible, and will respond to the client and customer's concerns within 5 business days of the initial complaint. At the time of the first contact, Director, Continuing Education will inform the complainant if more time will be needed to research the complaint.

If the complaint is still unresolved after communication with the Director, Continuing Education, or if the initial complaint is not addressed in a timely manner, the complainant may contact the President & CEO, UHS-PEP. The President & CEO will then contact the complainant and endeavor to resolve the complaint within 10 business days after being contacted.

The complaint log will be regularly reviewed to identify areas of operations and service that may require improvement. The Director, Continuing Education will research reoccurring complaint matters and recommend process and procedure changes, when appropriate. These changes will be noted on the Complaint Resolution Log, and any necessary policy and/or procedure updates will be made within 15 business days thereafter.

Disclaimers
Minimum and maximum numbers for attendance at this event have been established, and we reserve the right to substitute speakers/topics, adjust credit hours, or cancel if necessary.

By attending this event you grant VCU Health Continuing Education the right at the event to record, film, photograph, or capture your likeness in any media and to distribute, broadcast, use, or otherwise disseminate, in perpetuity, such media without any further approval from or any payment to you.

Cancellation Policy: 
Registration fee, less a 15% non-refundable administrative fee, will be refunded only if written notice of cancellation is received via email to [email protected] on or before April 9, 2025. There will be no refunds after that date.

ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center (6.00 hours), General Attendance - Attendance without CE credit (6.00 hours)

The registration form for this activity is currently unavailable.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

VCU Health Continuing Education adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a continuing education activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Friday, May 9, 2025

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