The Essentials

The Power of Coaching: Transforming Faculty Feedback for Competency-Based Success

Virtual Workshop | October 21, 2026 | 11:00 am-4:00 pm (ET)

Description

As nursing education evolves with the AACN Essentials and shifts toward competency-based education (CBE), the way we approach delivering feedback must adapt. Gone are the days of the one-way critique—today’s faculty are called to become dynamic coaches who champion learner growth across all domains of nursing practice.

Join us on October 21, 2026 from 11:00 am–4:00 pm (ET) for a hands-on, interactive workshop designed to energize and elevate the impact of your teaching. You'll explore how to step into the role of faculty coach, embracing formative assessment and developmental feedback as powerful tools to guide learner progression. Through engaging activities and real-world scenarios, you’ll develop core coaching skills that translate seamlessly into didactic, clinical, and simulation settings.

But effective feedback is more than just giving—it’s about receiving, reflecting, and growing. That’s why this workshop also highlights the role of the learner in the feedback process. Together, we’ll build strategies to boost feedback literacy for you and your students, ensuring meaningful learning and professional development across all spheres of care and levels of practice.

Walk away with practical skills, renewed purpose, and the tools to make feedback a cornerstone of your competency-based teaching.

Readiness Goals:

  • Develop feedback literacy in ourselves and our learners
  • Apply coaching techniques across the curriculum
  • Use advocacy-inquiry to develop learners at all stages of development

Participants may earn up to 4.5 CEUs for Nursing Continuing Professional Development.

Please note: Registration is restricted to one participant per registration. Multiple participants under one registration will not be permitted, and groups will be asked to register individually. Additionally, to facilitate engagement and learning, participants are expected to keep their cameras on and participate in breakout sessions for the duration of the workshop. These strict requirements should be taken into account when registering for this event.

Program

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Registration Fees

Workshop Standard
AACN Members $249
AACN Non-Members $349

  • You may substitute your virtual registration to another individual within your organization. This must be done by contacting the AACN Conference Department via email at conferences@aacnnursing.org.
  • If a substitution is not possible, your cancellation request must be received in writing and confirmed by AACN; otherwise, it cannot be honored. The following refund arrangements will then apply:
    • Cancellation requests received up to two weeks prior to the event start date, will be refunded minus a $90 non-refundable administrative fee.
    • No refunds will be given for notices received within two weeks of the event start date, nor will refunds be given for no-shows.
    • No-show registrations with an open balance will be charged the non-refundable administrative fee as outlined above after the event.
  • Your cancellation request must be submitted in writing to conferences@aacnnursing.org and confirmed by AACN.

Please note: AACN will issue refunds within a 2-week time period of receipt of written cancellation notice.

Event Cancellation by AACN

AACN reserves the right to modify, postpone/reschedule or cancel this conference and any related group activity for any circumstance beyond AACN's control, including but not limited to emergency, acts of God, government regulations, disaster, strike, and non-fulfilment of minimum group requirements. If AACN cancels an event, every attempt will be made to reschedule or provide a modified virtual offering, and registration fees will be applied to the rescheduled/virtual event. If a cancelled event cannot be rescheduled, AACN will issue a full refund of the registration fee(s). Any travel, lodging, or incidental expenses incurred related to a cancelled/postponed event cannot be refunded under any circumstances as AACN resumes no responsibility for such expenses.

Presenters

  • Mary Fey, PhD, RN, CHSE-A, ANEF, FAAN

    Associate Director, Applied Learning for Performance and Safety
    Harvard Center for Medical Simulation

  • Kate J. Morse, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN, CHSE-A, ACNP-Ret

    Clinical Professor of Nursing
    Drexel University