NLN Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC) 2025 Focuses on Navigating Nursing Education in a VUCA World in the Opening Plenary

NLN Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC) 2025 Focuses on Navigating Nursing Education in a VUCA World in the Opening Plenary

Revolutionizing Nursing Education Research: Bridging Science, Innovation, Technology & Teaching Excellence to Achieve Health Equity

Washington, DC — The Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC) 2025, presented exclusively by the National League for Nursing and the NLN | Chamberlain University College of Nursing Center for the Advancement of the Science of Nursing Education, will take place in Washington, D.C., March 27-29 at the Westin Washington, DC Downtown.

The conference theme, Revolutionizing Nursing Education Research: Bridging Science, Innovation, Technology, and Teaching Excellence to Achieve Health Equity, seeks to examine and understand the multidimensional complexities of higher education and health care through the lens of research in nursing education that transforms pedagogical practice. Dr. Linda Scott, esteemed dean and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing and patient safety/nursing workforce environment expert, will deliver the keynote address, Navigating Nursing Education in a VUCA World: Embracing Change, Policy, and Research, during the Opening Plenary.

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, we are currently facing numerous challenges in a world characterized as being volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). The same is true for nursing education as it responds to changes in health care, issues in higher education, nursing workforce shortages, and outcomes of a global pandemic. Dr. Scott’s presentation will provide insights, strategies and examples to guide nurse educators in navigating the negative aspects of VUCA to achieve positive results where volatility becomes visionary; uncertainty results in understanding; complexity leads to clarity; and ambiguity results in agility by embracing change, policy and research.

Her remarks will begin three days packed with workshops, panels and lectures to explore policies, research, social justice and teaching practices to influence systems and sustain change. “NERC 2025 will empower nurse educators with the knowledge, data, skills and networks needed to drive positive transformations in nursing education whose ultimate goal is to achieve health equity, a priority for public health,” said NLN Chair Patricia Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, Dean and Strawbridge Professor at the Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions at Ursuline College in Ohio.

“As the first national organization to fund nursing education research, the National League for Nursing remains the leader in advancing the science of nursing education research, with NERC 2025 a wonderful reflection of that enduring commitment,” said NLN President and CEO Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN.

Through three tracks, rooted in the current Research Priorities in Nursing Education, NERC 2025 aims to achieve five distinct outcomes:

• Leverage opportunities for participants to network with peers, experts and leaders of research in nursing education
• Empower participants to actively shape nursing education policies and practices based on data
• Implement learning science into teaching practice with a focus on innovative teaching/learning methodologies, technological integrations and evolving approaches
• Learn how nurse educators can embed evidence-informed principles into their teaching practices that foster the development of social justice advocates for health equity 
• Use robust designs to generate, translate and disseminate evidence for teaching practice

Find out more about NERC and register to attend at NLN.org. Early bird registration ends December 19. 

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