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Concurrent C60M285

Leading with Neuroplasticity: Boosting Brain Power to Guide High-Performing Nursing Teams

Facilitator(s): Josephine C Garcesa-Duque, DNP, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CCRN

Contact Hours 1.00
CERP C 1.00
San Diego Conference
Date Tuesday 5/19/2026
Time 11:30AM - 12:30PM PT

Session Summary

Discover how neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to adapt and rewire—can transform nurse leadership. This session equips leaders with brain-based strategies to boost resilience, sharpen decision-making and foster psychological safety. Learn how to lead high-performing teams in high-acuity settings through cognitive agility, emotional regulation and workflow innovation that drive engagement, retention and excellence in patient outcomes.

Objectives

  • Define neuroplasticity and explain how the brain's ability to rewire supports adaptive, emotionally intelligent nurse leadership.
  • Analyze how neuroplasticity enhances resilience, decision-making and engagement in high-acuity nursing leadership roles.
  • Apply evidence-based neuroplastic practices to develop brain habits that foster team synergy, clarity and innovation in leadership.
Topics Leadership
Role Manager, 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 1.00 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.