Happy New Year everyone!  

I hope you had a joyful holiday season. I am thrilled that ANA has designated 2020 as Year of Nurse!  What a great opportunity to focus on resiliency, nursing advocacy, and growing personally as well as professionally. 

A great way to invest in your professional growth is by attending the ANPD Annual convention. The convention is just around the corner (April 28-May 1st) and registration is in full swing.  I am proud to share that Zach Fierro, Jennifer Kirkman, and I will be in attendance. Zach will be presenting concurrent session S116: Data Analytics: The Final Frontier of Nursing Professional Development on 4/29  and I will be presenting S304: Tapestry of Wellness: Designing a Navajo Nurse Residency Program, on Friday, May 1st.  I will also have a poster session displaying my doctoral research work.  We hope you join us there. It is a wonderful experience, great networking, and you learn so much from others just like you across the country. Don’t forget, there is a group discount when you register 3 or more people at once.  For this post, I enabled comments to share. Make a comment below if you are registered or planning on attending! 

The NM-ANPD Board is in planning our annual business with an update to share with our members coming soon. Stay Tuned for more info.

Warm regards,

Rachael Frija, DNP, MSN, RN, NPD-BC
President, NM-ANPD