2026 Pathways to Knowledge Nursing Education Conference

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Friday, May 1, 2026, 7:00 AM - 4:30 PM ET, 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 2026 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. Describe ways to design, implement, evaluate, and support nursing education programs by exploring best practices in learning and development across the learning continuum.
2. Describe the structure and key components of the CDU-ED New Graduate Nurse Transition Program
3. Evaluate the impact of mentorship on clinical competency and professional development
4. Identify strategies to enhance support for new graduate nurses in high-acuity settings
5. Identify communication gaps and apply psychologically safe strategies by understanding personality dynamics within their teams.

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Call for Abstracts
Do you have an innovation in health care to share? We invite researchers and clinicians at all levels to submit abstracts on nursing professional development and education, improvement projects with positive outcomes, lessons learned and return on investment. Submit an abstract: here.

Submission Deadline: March 27, 2026
Notifications regarding acceptance of submitted abstracts will be emailed by April 3, 2026.

NOTE: Posters will be displayed on Friday, May 1, 2026. Authors must register for the conference to present their poster presentations

In support of improving patient care, 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.

 

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. 

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center (5.75 hours), General Attendance - Attendance without CE credit (5.75 hours)

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.

All VCU and VCU Health reviewers have nothing to disclose.

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