2025 Aspire Convention |  April 29 – May 2, 2025 | Las Vegas, NV

The ANPD Aspire Convention is the premier education and networking event for NPD professionals and colleagues to share expertise, knowledge, skills, best-practice, and advocacy for the NPD specialty on every level.

Our education program is a demonstration in diversity of thought, participation, and experience that will inspire NPD practitioners to lead similar initiatives at their own organizations.  All attendees can earn up to 18 contact hours for convention sessions and additional hours for the Pre-Convention Workshops.

Education Categories

The six responsibilities of the NPD practitioner in the throughputs of the NPD Practice Model are used to categorize Aspire Convention presentations into educational tracks.

 

Competency Management

Sessions focused on dynamic processes and innovative methods to support ongoing assessment and evaluation of performance

Education

Sessions that dive into the depths of various instructional modalities and design techniques to plan, implement, and evaluate education initiatives to address practice gaps and provide professional development 

Role Development

Sessions on strategies to facilitate growth and development for role transition and role integration from frontline staff to formal leaders

Collaborative Partnership

Sessions on forming, developing, and sustaining internal and external partnerships that foster growth and address critical nursing issues

Inquiry

Sessions on research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement that impact the nursing professional development role and community

Onboarding & Orientation

Sessions that remodel and mitigate challenges to integrating an employee into the organization or when changes to the role, responsibilities, or practices occur

Sub-categories

Additionally, sub-categories help sessions further highlight additional pertinent and relevant topics to nursing professional development. Applicable sessions will also have sub-categories, such as:

• Leadership
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Healthy Work Environment
• Technology

Respectful & Equitable Practice

Guided by Standard 9 of the NPD Scope & Standards of Practice, the NPD practitioner practices with cultural humility and inclusiveness (Harper & Maloney, 2022). Our session presenters reflect, engage in, or support cultural humility, social equity, inclusivity, allyship, and/or cultural practices and demonstrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in NPD practice.

Association for Nursing Professional Development is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.