CNE Event Calendar
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For assistance with registering for an event, please contact Gina Gulino-Payne, Conference Registrar at ggulinopayne@anselm.edu or telephone at (603) 641-7086.
Upcoming Events
Cultivating Nursing Professionalism through Education and Community is a dynamic, multiday event designed for nurse educators working in both academic and clinical environments. This conference brings together thought leaders and practitioners to explore innovative strategies and tools that elevate nursing education, foster professional growth, and build a sense of community among nurse educators.
With a blend of keynote sessions, hands-on workshops, concurrent sessions, and networking opportunities, attendees will gain insights into the latest trends and best practices in nursing education while addressing critical challenges such as cultural humility, technology integration, and fostering health equity. Participants will leave inspired and equipped to advance nursing professionalism in their institutions and beyond.
Session Descriptions and Faculty
- Target Audience: Academic Nursing Faculty and Leaders, Clinical Nurse Educators and Professial Development Specialists
- 15.5 Nursing Contact Hours available
- This is a 3-day conference: May 28-May 30, 2025
- Event location: Sea Crest Beach Hotel, North Falmouth, MA
Saint Anselm College is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
Event details for 32nd Annual Conference for Nurse Educators
This immersive 3-day intensive workshop is designed for nurses looking to build and advance their skills in aesthetic medicine. Combining Foundational Neurotoxins, Advanced Neurotoxins, and Dermal Fillers, this program provides a progressive learning experience, moving from core principles to expert-level techniques. Participants will gain a deep understanding of facial aesthetics, refine their injection skills, and develop confidence in performing neurotoxin and dermal filler treatments.
With 21 contact hours, including 16 hours of hands-on practice with live models under expert guidance, this workshop offers a comprehensive pathway for nurses committed to aesthetic excellence.
Program Breakdown:
Day 1:
- Foundational Neurotoxins – 2-hour didactic session covering the science, safety, and fundamental techniques of neurotoxins.
- Hands-On Practice – 4 hours of supervised injections on live models.
Day 2:
- Continued Hands-On Practice – 4 additional hours of neurotoxin injections, refining precision and technique.
- Advanced Neurotoxins & Dermal Fillers – 3-hour didactic session covering advanced applications, product selection, facial anatomy, and complication management.
Day 3:
- Full-Day Hands-On Practice – 8 hours of intensive training, focusing on advanced neurotoxin techniques and dermal filler injections for natural, balanced results.
Target Audience:
- Licensed nurses (RNs, NPs, LPNs) looking to enter or advance in aesthetic medicine.
- Aesthetic nurses wanting to strengthen their knowledge and expand their clinical expertise.
- Healthcare professionals seeking hands-on training in neurotoxins and dermal fillers under expert supervision.
Faculty:
- Ciara Dimou, DNP, AGNP-BC, WHNP-BC
- Co-provided with VAIN Academy
Learning Outcome:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to demonstrate competency in neurotoxin and dermal filler injection techniques, apply knowledge of facial anatomy to develop individualized treatment plans, safely administer aesthetic injections for optimal patient outcomes, and effectively recognize and manage complications while integrating these skills into their professional practice.
Earns 21 Nursing Contact Hours
Saint Anselm College is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
Learn more and Register Here: https://anselm.eventsair.com/CEPortal/cne-database/cne
Join Us for the 42nd Annual School Nursing Conference!
Dates: August 5-7, 2025
Location: Dana Center, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH
We’re back IN PERSON for this highly anticipated gathering of school nurses! The 42nd Annual Conference: Challenges & Changes in Today’s School Nursing is designed to equip school nurses with the latest insights, evidence-based practices, and networking opportunities to support student health and well-being.
Why Attend?
- Gain valuable knowledge from expert-led sessions on trauma-informed workplaces, pediatric health concerns, emergency response, and leadership in school nursing.
- Engage with distinguished faculty and featured speakers covering critical topics, including sex trafficking awareness, emergency preparedness, infectious rash identification, and integrative care.
- Participate in hands-on workshops, such as a Diabetes Escape Room and orthopedic assessments tailored for school settings.
- Network with colleagues from across the region, share experiences, and strengthen your professional community.
Featured Highlights:
- Keynote: From Red Flags to Recovery – A Survivor’s Story and the School Nurse’s Role in Ending Sex Trafficking – Jasmine Marino
- Full-Day Session with Wendy L. Wright, DNP, ANP-BC, FAANP on Head-to-Toe Evaluation of Children & Adolescents
- Plenary Sessions on Integrative Care & Building Resilience for school nurses and the students they serve
- Interactive discussions on 504s, IEPs, IHPs, and emergency response team development
Earn up to 16 contact hours while expanding your expertise in school health and nursing leadership.
Saint Anselm College is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
Learning Outcome: By the end of the multi-day school nurse conference participants will be able to describe enhanced interdisciplinary skills and discuss strategies for addressing diverse student health needs and fostering inclusive and supportive school environments.
Space is limited—register today!
- Learn more and register: https://anselm.eventsair.com/CEPortal/cne-database/cne
- Questions? Call 603-641-7086
Be part of the conversation. Be part of the change. See you in August!
This interactive one-day workshop is designed for nurses transitioning into or currently serving as clinical faculty in academic and healthcare settings.
Participants will gain essential skills and strategies to enhance their effectiveness as clinical educators, including methods to foster clinical judgment, effective communication and evaluation techniques, the art of debriefing, and best practices for delivering constructive feedback.
Through scenario-based exercises, group discussions, and guided reflections, attendees will engage in hands-on learning to build confidence in managing common clinical teaching challenges.
The program will also provide access to valuable resources, including toolkits and and templates.
Distinguished Faculty:
- Caryn A. (Sheehan) Vallante, DNP, APRN, RN, Professor of Nursing, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH
- Jennifer O’Neill, DNP, MSN, RN, Clinical Nursing Faculty, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH
- Carrie Scott, MSN, RN, Clinical Nursing Faculty, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH
- Nancy Spaulding, MSN, RN, Clinical Nursing Faculty, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH
Learning Objectives:
- Articulate the core responsibilities and expectations of clinical nursing faculty in academia
- Describe strategies to foster clinical judgment and critical thinking skills in nursing students
- Apply effective debriefing techniques to facilitate reflective learning
- Compare constructive and ineffective feedback approaches
- Access resources for continued development such as toolkits, and templates
Contact Hours: 5.75
Cost: $289 (includes lunch)
Location: NHIOP, Saint Anselm Campus
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Event details for Clinical Faculty Development: An Interactive Workshop
This online leadership series is designed to explore the various components to develop a nurse leader, whose goal is to enhance and empower oneself in advancing the future of the nursing profession. This series serves as an excellent review for the Certified Nurse Leader exam and certification.
Target Audience:
Any nurse who practices in a leadership role, including but not limited to, nurse educators, clinical nurse managers, charge nurses, supervisors and directors. Staff nurses with 5 years’ experience interested in seeking a leadership role should consider this offering.
Each course will earn 15 Nursing Contact Hours and can be taken individually or together. Each module begins with one virtual live webinar from 08:30am- 4:00pm. The remainder of the program is completed online asynchronously.
SEPTEMBER 11-OCTOBER 8, 2025
Blending Mission and Margin: Business Skills for the Nurse Leader
September 11, 8:30 am-4:00 pm as virtual live webinar; remainder of program online. Topics include: system-based thinking, data management, financial implications of care, accountable care organizations.
OCTOBER 23-NOVEMBER 12, 2025:
The Future of Nursing: Quality, Healthcare Policy, and Patient Outcomes
October 23, 8:30 am-4:00 pm as virtual live webinar; remainder of program online. Topics include: the role of leader in strategic leadership, IOM goals, patient outcomes, interdisciplinary care and patient satisfaction measures.
Additional Details and Register Here →
This two-day holistic nursing conference, Honoring Stories: Healing Through Narrative and Holistic Practice, invites nurses and healing professionals to reconnect with the core of caregiving—the stories we carry, witness, and share. Through keynote presentations, plenary sessions, reflective activities, and experiential workshops, participants will explore how storytelling and narrative serve as powerful tools for healing, transformation, and professional growth.
From the wisdom of Florence Nightingale’s enduring legacy to the personal narratives of healing, courage, and leadership, this program honors the deep connection between holistic practice and the human experience. Attendees will engage in practices that amplify presence, creativity, and self-care, including guided journaling, expressive movement, and nature-based reflection. Offering a unique balance of education and retreat activities, this conference offers a space to be nourished, inspired, and renewed.
Target Audience:
This conference is ideal for nurses and care providers interested in enhancing their understanding of holism and exploring ways to integrate holism into the care of self and others.
Learning Outcome:
By the end of this conference, participants will be able to examine the role of narrative in holistic nursing practice by exploring personal, professional, and patient stories as pathways to healing, connection, leadership, and self-awareness.
Contact Hours: 10.75 hours
Planned Sessions:
- Keynote: Florence Nightingale, Holistic Nurse
- Reading the Body
- Leader as Healer, Healer as Leader
- Using Theories and Frameworks to Magnify Holistic Practice
- Reframing: Stories of our Illness and Wellness
- Power of Positive Thinking
- Healing the Healer
- Chronic Illness: Stories of Healing
- Courage
- Reflection to Empowerment
Location: The Colony Hotel, Kennebunkport, Maine
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This nursing webinar is designed to address the multifaceted challenges of obesity within healthcare settings. The sessions will cover key topics such as understanding obesity trends, assessment and intervention strategies, promoting lifestyle changes, addressing obesity-related stigma, and collaborating within interdisciplinary teams for comprehensive obesity management.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to discuss obesity trends, health implications, and associated comorbidities, and describe assessment skills and intervention strategies for effective obesity management in clinical practice including counseling skills to promote lifestyle changes, healthy behaviors, and patient engagement in obesity care.
Target Audience:
This program is designed for nurses and other professionals involved in health initiatives related to obesity management. It offers a comprehensive overview of obesity trends, assessment tools, intervention strategies, psychosocial considerations, and interdisciplinary collaboration essential for effective obesity care in healthcare settings.
Faculty: Jennifer Limongiello, PhD, RN, FNP
Contact Hours: 5
Cost: $119
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Event details for Tackling Obesity in Healthcare: Strategies for Nurses
Designing and Implementing Simulation Scenarios is one module of four towards a Healthcare Simulation Educator Certificate
DESCRIPTION: This innovative online certificate program is designed to explore the various components necessary to develop and run simulation scenarios within an academic or clinical setting.
WHO: Any nurse practicing in an education role who is interested in developing or working in a simulation program. This would be applicable to nurse educators in academia or healthcare facilities, preceptors, mentors, or staff nurses who are interested in learning more about this teaching pedagogy.
WHY: The content will provide the nuts and bolts of simulation to include how to assess educational needs, develop, implement and evaluate simulation experiences.
WHAT: In order to receive this 60-hour certificate (equal to 60 contact hours), completion of the four modules is required. Each module is 15 contact hours and is taught in an online format: 6 hours virtual live webinar, 9 hours online utilizing discussion boards and case studies, and required reading over the course of 4 weeks in an asynchronous manner.
DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING SIMULATION SCENARIOS
This module begins on October 1, 2025 and concludes on October 24th.
Topics: nursing education simulation framework incorporating roles of facilitator and participant, educational practices, simulation outcomes and design characteristics.
Learning Outcome: Upon successful completion of this module, the participant will be able to discuss the important components of simulation design and important aspects to consider for simulation scenario implementation in both the hospital and academic settings
Faculty: Maureen Hillier, DNP, RN, CCRN, CHSE
Full brochure and Register Here →
Cost per module: $299
Event details for Designing and Implementing Simulation Scenarios
As the aging population continues to grow, healthcare professionals must adapt to evolving policies, emerging technologies, and the unique needs of diverse older adult communities. This full-day Geriatric Nursing Conference will provide cutting-edge insights into age-friendly care models, virtual nursing and AI applications, hearing loss innovations, healthcare disparities, and inclusive practices for LGBTQIA+ older adults. Through expert-led discussions, interactive case studies, and evidence-based strategies, attendees will gain the knowledge and tools to enhance the quality of care for older adults in a variety of healthcare settings.
Learning Outcome: At the conclusion of this conference, participants will be able to identify emerging best practices, technological innovations, and inclusive care strategies to improve health outcomes, reduce disparities, and enhance the quality of life for older adults in diverse healthcare settings.
Target Audience: This conference is ideal for nurses, nurse educators, healthcare administrators, social workers, allied health professionals, and anyone dedicated to improving geriatric care.
Contact Hours: 6
Multiple Speakers: Mary Eweka, Emily Anderson, Cecilia Hardacker, Ben Bradley, Kris Haring, Chantal LeFrancois
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Event details for 31st Annual Gerontological Nursing Conference: Aging into the Future
This program offers an in-depth exploration of cannabis and its implications for nursing practice. This program will provide participants with foundational knowledge about the Endocannabinoid System, the central nervous system effects of cannabis, and the role of cannabis terpenes in therapeutic outcomes. Topics will include cannabis delivery methods, short- and long-term effects, withdrawal symptoms, and potential drug interactions. Through expert-led sessions, participants will also learn how to support symptom management using cannabis and access reliable resources for continued learning.
Target Audience:
This program is designed for nurses in diverse practice settings who seek to expand their knowledge of cannabis and its therapeutic applications. It is ideal for those interested in understanding the science behind cannabis, its impact on the body, and how to integrate evidence-based information into their patient care and professional practice.
Learning Outcome:
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to integrate knowledge of the Endocannabinoid System, cannabis effects, terpenes, and delivery methods to provide evidence-based care, support symptom management, address patient concerns about drug interactions and withdrawal, and guide patients to credible resources for further information.
Faculty: Lisa Withrow, APRN, FNP-C, ACHPN, Palliativity Medical Group, LLC, Bedford, NH
Contact Hours: 5
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Event details for The Cannabis Conversation: Updates for Nursing Practice
In today’s fast-changing healthcare environment, effective nurse leaders must cultivate confidence, resilience, and the ability to drive meaningful change. This multi-day conference is designed to equip nurse leaders and managers with the skills and strategies they need to lead authentically, foster a culture of belonging, and navigate workplace challenges with confidence.
Through interactive workshops, expert panels, and real-world case studies, participants will explore critical leadership topics, including executive presence, team effectiveness, personal effectiveness, trauma-informed workplaces, and just culture. Sessions will also provide practical strategies for handling difficult conversations, improving hiring and interviewing skills, and ensuring the lessons learned at the conference lead to lasting change in the workplace.
Set at the gorgeous Colony Hotel in Kennebunkport, Maine!
Target Audience:
- Nurse Managers & Directors seeking to strengthen their leadership skills.
- Charge Nurses & Emerging Leaders looking to develop foundational leadership competencies.
- Healthcare Administrators focused on workforce engagement and operational success.
- Nursing Educators supporting leadership development in nurses.
- Chief Nursing Officers & Senior Leaders working to build sustainable, high-performing teams.
Planned Sessions:
- Keynote: Stepping into your Power
- Round table discussion of impact/action steps
- Belonging
- Difficult Conversations
- Lunch and Learn- Sponsored by ObservSmart
- Make it Rain- the power of teamwork
- Authentic Leadership
- Personal Effectiveness
- Just Culture
- Trauma Informed Workplace
- Interviewing Skills
- Avoiding Back to Business As Usual- Getting the most out of the conference
Learning Outcome:
At the end of the program, participants will increase their knowledge of leadership strategies, communication techniques, and workplace culture principles to foster resilience, enhance team effectiveness, and create meaningful change in healthcare environments.
Contact Hours: 11
Multiple Speakers
Full Brochure available on Registration site →
Program Description:
This session will provide the health care provider with information regarding emerging trends in infectious disease. A look at the management of common viral and bacterial infections including: Influenza, Pertussis, Enterovirus, Lyme Disease, RSV, MPOX, Avian Flu
Target Audience:
RNs, NPs, PAs
Learning Outcome:
At the completion of this program, participants will be able to: Discuss three recent evidence-based changes in practice related to evaluating and treating infectious diseases.
Contact Hours: 5
Faculty: Wendy L. Wright, DNP, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP
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Event details for Emerging Trends in Infectious Diseases: Update 2025