Seeds, Seasons, and Stories: Mentors, Moments, and Meaning
Webinar Details
This storytelling-based session invites nurses to wander through the “garden” of their professional journey, exploring the seeds planted by mentors, the seasons of challenge and growth, and the meaningful moments that shaped who they are becoming. Through shared stories, participants discover how small interactions can take root and flourish into confidence, clarity, and purpose while highlighting lessons learned, strategies that nurture development, and the very human process of growing into new roles. Attendees leave with a renewed appreciation for those who have helped cultivate their path, an eagerness to seek new mentoring moments, and a clearer sense of how to tend their own growth with curiosity, resilience, and intention.
Learning Outcomes
- Participants will be able to identify at least two lessons from shared stories that illustrate how early mentoring interactions can plant the seeds for long-term professional development.
- Participants will be able to analyze a narrative of professional growth and describe two strategies they can use to navigate their own seasons of transition with confidence and clarity.
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Speaker
Kathy Andresen, DNP, MPH, RN, CNE
Associate Clinical Professor
University of West Florida, School of Nursing
Dr. Kathy Andresen is an Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of West Florida. She has been a nurse educator since 2009 and has served in numerous program development and leadership roles throughout her 36-year nursing career, the majority of which has been in community-based settings. She teaches in both undergraduate and graduate programs across a variety of courses, including public health, health promotion, leadership, and evidence-based practice.
She earned a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Iowa, a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Rush University in Chicago, and a Master of Public Health from St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Her scholarly work focuses on workforce development. She is passionate about supporting nurses at all levels and is actively engaged in initiatives that empower nurses to make a meaningful impact.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Nursing Education
One nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) credit is associated with this webinar; attendees must be present for the entire webinar and complete the evaluation to receive a certificate of completion.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.