Thriving in NP School: A Practical Roadmap for NP Student Success
Webinar Details
NP school asks a lot. You're building a clinician mindset on top of years of nursing experience, working through graduate coursework, and most likely still picking up shifts while you do it. The path is worth it, but it's rarely straightforward.
In this free GNSA webinar, Olivia Livernois, NP Specialist at Sketchy and practicing nurse practitioner, walks through the practical strategies that help NP students stay on track from first semester through boards. Drawing on her own journey from ICU and hospice RN to NP, she covers what actually moves the needle.
What you'll learn:
- How to navigate the shift from nursing mindset to clinician mindset
- Strategies for balancing work, coursework, and clinical rotations
- How to build clinical confidence and reasoning skills ahead of your rotations
- What early, sustainable board prep actually looks like
- How to use AI tools thoughtfully in your training and practice
Webinar Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify strategies for success in NP school.
- Develop a sustainable approach to board preparation.
- Utilize educational resources to strengthen clinical reasoning and decision-making.
- Understand key considerations when transitioning into NP practice.
- Recognize emerging opportunities and challenges, including AI in healthcare.
This webinar is sponsored by Sketchy.
Note: Recording of the webinar will be available soon after the webinar airs. Visit AACN's On-Demand Webinars to watch.
Speaker
Olivia Livernois, MSN, FNP-BC
Family Nurse Practitioner
Nursing Program Specialist, DDx by Sketchy
Olivia Livernois is a practicing Family Nurse Practitioner, educator, and Nursing Program Specialist at Sketchy. She collaborates with nurse practitioner programs nationwide to align clinical reasoning, communication, and virtual simulation-based learning with curricular goals and competency frameworks. Her clinical background spans critical care, occupational health, hospice, and urgent care, and she currently practices in urgent care and occupational health/primary care settings, delivering accessible, real-world care to diverse patient populations. Olivia is passionate about advancing innovative, student-centered learning that strengthens diagnostic reasoning and prepares learners for high-stakes clinical practice.
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.