Sessions
Nursing Careers Week 2025 features a full week of webinars, panels, and workshops designed to inspire, educate, and empower nurses at every stage of their career. Register once to access all sessions, whether you attend live or watch them later on demand. Join us for the whole event or tune in to what matches your goals, challenges and interests.
Each session aligns to one of three tracks: the Empowered Nurse, the Resilient Nurse, or the Global Nurse
Featured Sessions
The Empowered Nurse's Guide to Career Clarity
Too many nurses feel stuck—but you don’t have to be one of them. In this kick-off session, learn how to evaluate opportunities, invest in your growth, and create a personalized development roadmap. With practical tips on mentorship, education, and market trends, you’ll walk away ready to take control of your next career move.
Keynote with Beverly Malone: Whole Self, Whole Career: A Revival of the Nurse Within
As the opening keynote for Nursing Careers Week 2025, Dr. Beverly Malone will illuminate how nurses can integrate their full identities—personal, professional, cultural—into thriving careers built on purpose, resilience, and leadership. Drawing from her decades of experience as a frontline nurse, educator, policymaker, and global nursing leader, she will weave together the three event tracks focused on empowered, resilient and global nursing. Through uplifting stories and action oriented insights, Dr. Malone will help participants see nursing not as a one way investment, but as a two way path—where caring for others enriches themselves, returning confidence, connection, and renewed commitment. She’ll frame nursing as more than a profession, but the most trusted vocation—inviting attendees to step into leadership, self care, and community with vision, empathy, and strength.
Keynote with Joyce Fitzpatrick: Career Catalyst: Charting your Nursing Career with Purpose
As Nursing Careers Week concludes, this energizing session with Joyce Fitzpatrick will leave you inspired and equipped to take control of your future. Based on her extensive research and leadership, Joyce will explore the critical factors every nurse should consider mentorship, education, work environments, networking, and personal development to move from career curiosity to career confidence. It's not just a talk; it's your launchpad.
From Bedside to Boardroom: Elevating Nurse Leadership in Governance
Discover how nurses can amplify their impact beyond the bedside by serving on boards and taking on governance roles. This session will highlight the value of nurse voices in leadership and decision-making spaces, feature personal stories from nurses already serving in these roles, and offer practical guidance for those ready to step into advocacy and governance. Learn how your clinical insight can help shape policy and drive meaningful change in healthcare and beyond.
Clinical Realities: Mental Health Diagnoses in the Nursing Profession
A candid panel discussion exploring the common mental health diagnoses among nurses—including anxiety disorders, depression, and PTSD. Mental health professionals will break down each condition, share signs to look for, and offer guidance on when and how to seek safe, effective support.
Extraordinary Journey of Compassionate Care
Join DAISY Foundation CEO Deb Zimmermann for a moving exploration of how compassionate care not only transforms patient experiences but also fuels nurse resilience. This session will highlight the enduring power of compassion to create connection, purpose, and strength—especially in the most challenging moments of nursing. Discover how leading with heart can sustain both your practice and your well-being.
Failing Forward: How Nurse Leaders Turned Failure into Fuel
Even the most successful nurse leaders have faced failure—sometimes with devastating consequences. In this candid panel, experienced respected nurses share low points in their careers, from clinical mistakes to career missteps, and how they turned those moments into turning points. This session will remind you that setbacks don't define you—how you respond does.
Dreams in Motion: Real Journeys to U.S. Nursing Success
They dreamed of a nursing career in America and they made it real. Hear personal accounts of international nurses who faced setbacks, navigated uncertainty, and found success in the U.S. healthcare system. Their stories offer more than insight, they offer hope, encouragement, and a glimpse of what's possible.
Lessons Learned: What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Nurse in the U.S.
This session brings together internationally educated nurses to share honest, hard-earned advice for others preparing to transition into U.S. nursing. From adapting to fast-paced technology to coping with cultural shifts and family separation, their stories offer real-world guidance to help smooth your path and set realistic expectations.
2025 Tracks
The Empowered nurse
An empowered nurse is a confident nurse. These sessions focus on career ownership, leadership, continued learning, and alternate paths beyond the bedside. Hear stories from nurses who’ve carved their own definitions of success and leave with ideas to accelerate your own journey.
The Resilient nurse
Adversity surrounds today’s nurses. Learning how to handle it, harness it, and turn it into the strength and grit every nurse needs to succeed is what our Resilient Nurse track is all about. Highlighting mental health, well-being, and professional sustainability, this track equips nurses with strategies to thrive amid ongoing challenges and build long-term career resilience along any career path they choose.
The Global Nurse
A growing number of bedside nurses in the United States were educated and trained in hundreds of other countries around the world. Now here and caring for patients in the United States, these nurses bring much-needed diversity and new forms of compassionate care to our bedsides. The Global Nurse track will educate on the global healthcare landscape, provide insights and perspectives from international nurses and nurse organizations, and highlight the future of the nursing profession in a global community of caregivers.
The empowered nurse
An empowered nurse is a confident nurse. These sessions focus on career ownership, leadership, continued learning, and alternate paths beyond the bedside. Hear stories from nurses who’ve carved their own definitions of success and leave with ideas to accelerate your own journey.
The Resilient nurse
Adversity surrounds today’s nurses. Learning how to handle it, harness it, and turn it into the strength and grit every nurse needs to succeed is what our Resilient Nurse track is all about. Highlighting mental health, well-being, and professional sustainability, this track equips nurses with strategies to thrive amid ongoing challenges and build long-term career resilience along any career path they choose.
The Global Nurse
A growing number of bedside nurses in the United States were educated and trained in hundreds of other countries around the world. Now here and caring for patients in the United States, these nurses bring much-needed diversity and new forms of compassionate care to our bedsides. The Global Nurse track will educate on the global healthcare landscape, provide insights and perspectives from international nurses and nurse organizations, and highlight the future of the nursing profession in a global community of caregivers.
Street Cred in Scrubs: Building Trust, Influence, and Respect in Your Nursing Career
Credibility isn't handed to you—it's earned, moment by moment, at the bedside, in huddles, and in every clinical decision. In this honest and practical solo talk, we'll explore how to build "street cred" in the nursing world—not through perfection, but through consistency, humility, and communication. Learn how trust is cultivated through reliability, transparency, and active listening. Discover how seeking feedback, asking questions, and doing your homework can elevate your practice and your presence. Whether you're new to the field or navigating your next chapter, this session will offer actionable insights and real-world examples to help you gain the respect of your peers and lead with quiet confidence.
AI & the Resilient Nurse: Tools for Thriving, Not Just Surviving
Artificial Intelligence is transforming how nurses learn, practice, and grow. This session explores practical ways AI is supporting nurses in their daily work—from streamlining clinical tasks and enhancing communication to offering smart study tools and helping with job searches. Hear from tech-savvy nurse leaders and digital health experts about where AI is heading, what tools are already making a difference, and how to use them safely and effectively. We'll also explore the risks—privacy, bias, and misinformation—and share tips for staying empowered and protected in a rapidly changing digital world.
Extraordinary Journey of Compassionate Care
Join DAISY Foundation CEO Deb Zimmermann for a moving exploration of how compassionate care not only transforms patient experiences but also fuels nurse resilience. This session will highlight the enduring power of compassion to create connection, purpose, and strength—especially in the most challenging moments of nursing. Discover how leading with heart can sustain both your practice and your well-being.
Failing Forward: How Nurse Leaders Turned Failure into Fuel
Even the most successful nurse leaders have faced failure—sometimes with devastating consequences. In this candid panel, experienced respected nurses share low points in their careers, from clinical mistakes to career missteps, and how they turned those moments into turning points. This session will remind you that setbacks don't define you—how you respond does.
Guiding the Next Generation: Nurses Who Teach
This session highlights the powerful transition from clinical care to academic influence. Nurses who have moved into teaching roles will discuss what drew them to academia, the impact they're making, and how others can follow this transformative path.
Non-Traditional Nurse Career Story: The Research Path Less Traveled
Not all nursing careers are clinical—and that's exactly the point. This session explores how one nurse found purpose and impact through research, carving out a path in science, discovery, and systems-level change. Perfect for anyone wondering what else is possible with a nursing degree.