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Yes, You Can Do That: Strategies to Step Into Speaking

Facilitator(s): Cheryl D Herrmann, RN,APN,CCRN,CCNS-CSC-CMC; Jennifer L Lanz, MSN, APRN-FPA, AGACNP-BC, CCK

Contact Hours 1.25
CERP B 1.25
San Diego Conference
Date Tuesday 5/19/2026
Time 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM PT

Session Summary

Most speakers are made, not born. Maybe you have expertise to share and want to move from spectator to presenter. This interactive session empowers aspiring and emerging speakers to take the stage. With practical tools to identify your message, refine your voice and navigate imposter syndrome, you'll walk away with a clear plan and renewed confidence. Learn how to grow from thinking you can do that, to doing it—one talk at a time.

Objectives

  • Identify personal barriers to public speaking and apply strategies to overcome them.
  • Develop a personalized plan for creating and delivering a presentation.
  • Evaluate entry-level speaking opportunities and actionable steps to build visibility, credibility and confidence as a speaker.
Topics Career Development
Role Manager, Educator, APRN, Staff, Researcher

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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.