Nursing Professional Development

Designed by Teams and for Teams

Interprofessional collaboration and team‐based care are becoming increasingly important to delivering optimal healthcare. Our approach to professional development is to deliver educational opportunities designed by the health care team for the health care team. We partner across the university and the community to bring multiple areas of expertise into the planning process, so we can identify the most important needs and issues and create opportunities that are both educationally sound and relevant to a broader segment of health care professionals.

Featured Courses

Learning Opportunities

2025-2026 Graduate Clinical Preceptor Development Workshop

In-Person & Virtual Workshops
September 19, 2025, January 15, 2026 & May 18, 2026

The focus of the workshop is on competence and skills that nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians need when serving as preceptors. These include time management, critical thinking, providing evaluation and feedback, nurse practitioner/physician assistant program information, learner styles, motivating, working with a challenging preceptee, wellbeing/resiliency for preceptors, and precepting with telemedicine.

New to Public Health Residency Program

Online Course

Next traditional cohort starts October 2025

The New to Public Health (N2PH) Residency Program is a first of its kind, 12-month, professional development program designed to support new public health professionals transitioning into a governmental public health agency.
The registration is limited to those who were accepted into a learning cohort. Click the link to learn more or apply.
Please contact the program facilitators with additional questions at new2publichealth@son.wisc.edu.

Native Nations Nursing, Helpers, and Healers Summit

Madison, WI
November 7, 2025

The Native Nations Nursing Summit focuses on educating nurses about the public health needs of Wisconsin Native communities while highlighting the use of an integrated team model in health care.

The summit features Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, renowned author of Braiding Sweetgrass and The Serviceberry, as the keynote speaker. Dr. Kimmerer will share insights on reciprocity, community, and gratitude inspired by the natural world.

The event includes career advancement opportunities within nursing and continuing education for RNs, advanced practice nurses, physicians, psychologists, and social workers.

About

Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership

The Nursing Professional Development program at the School of Nursing is part of UW–Madison’s Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership, which includes the continuing education units of the UW–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy.

UW–Madison has a strong history of providing exemplary continuing education for healthcare professionals. In January 2015, the School of Medicine and Public Health Office of Continuing Professional Development, School of Nursing Continuing Education in Nursing Program, and the School of Pharmacy Division of Pharmacy Professional Development began a partnership intending to expand professional development opportunities that focus on interprofessional collaboration and teamwork.

The resulting interprofessional continuing education partnership (ICEP) was awarded Joint Accreditation in 2016, which is a new distinction from the three global leaders in healthcare continuing education accreditation.

The mission of the Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership is to provide exemplary and innovative accredited interprofessional continuing education that improves the skills and strategies of healthcare teams, leading to healthier patients and communities.

Joint Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, the Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Through Joint Accreditation™ we offer continuing education credit for physician assistants, pharmacists, physicians, psychologists, and social workers through a single, unified application process, fee structure, and accreditation standards.

In December 2022, ICEP earned Joint Accreditation with Commendation. The partnership met the commendation criteria by addressing population health issues in collaboration with community organizations, enhancing learner skills through hands-on education, engaging in healthcare quality improvement and conducting research in interprofessional continuing education.

We are excited to be leaders in the development of team-based interprofessional continuing education, living the Wisconsin Idea.

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