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NTI

From Practice to Progress: Enhancing Your Career as an Advanced Practice Nurse

Facilitator(s): April Nicole Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC; Cindy Ann Borum, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, NE-BC, FAAN; Carrie Bowman Dalley, MS, PhD, CRNA, FAANA; Ruth M Kleinpell, RN,PhD,AG-ACNP,FCCM,FAAN

Contact Hours 1.25
CERP B 1.25
San Diego Conference
Date Wednesday 5/20/2026
Time 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM PT

Session Summary

This conference session features a dynamic panel discussion with four advanced practice nurses who have intentionally expanded their careers beyond traditional bedside roles. Panelists share their diverse professional paths, highlighting how advanced education opens doors to leadership, education and beyond. Attendees learn how to leverage their skills, experiences and credentials to enhance career trajectories. Join us to imagine your next chapter in advanced practice nursing.

Objectives

  • Identify diverse career pathways available to advanced practice nurses beyond traditional bedside and clinical roles.
  • Evaluate personal goals and career interests in relation to emerging and expanding roles within advanced practice nursing.
  • Formulate at least one actionable strategy to support a sustainable work-life balance and professional longevity.
Topics Career Development, Motivational & Personal Growth
Role APRN, Staff

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Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.25 contact hours.

Disclosure

Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.

Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.

Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion. 

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.