NJ Statewide Nursing Summit

Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 8:15 AM - 4:00 PM, New Jersey Hospital Association, Princeton, NJ

This year’s Summit will bring together professionals from across the care continuum to explore emerging trends in HIV and topics also relevant to primary care providers, share best practices, and strengthen our statewide nursing community. 

1. Describe the role of nurses across the care continuum to ensure positive patient outcomes.
2. Explore treatment options available to menopausal women with HIV.
3. Evaluate strategies that nurses can incorporate into practice to critically appraise, safely integrate, and ethically apply AI outputs in clinical care.
4. Review current FDA approved long-acting injectable medications for HIV treatment and prevention.
5. Describe key components of comprehensive, whole-person physical assessment for individuals who use substances including relevant history, examination findings and risk factors.
6. Summarize interventions utilized to strengthen evidence-based nursing policy at the local, state and national level.

• General Registration - $35

• Advanced Registration is required. View the Registration & Refund Policies.

• The registration deadline is April 22, 2026.

In support of improving patient care, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Nurses
This activity is awarded 6 contact hours. Nurses should claim only those contact hours actually spent participating in the activity. 

Disclosure
In accordance with the disclosure policies of Rutgers and to conform with Joint Accreditation requirements and FDA guidelines, individuals in a position to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose to the activity participants: (1) the existence of any relevant financial relationship with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients, with the exemption of non-profit or government organizations and non-health care related companies, within the past 12 months; and (2) the identification of a commercial product/device that is unlabeled for use or an investigational use of a product/device that is not yet approved. Faculty members/presenters are listed under the Faculty tab.

Planners

The following planners have no relevant financial relationships to disclose: 

Michelle Thompson

John Nelson, PhD, CNS, CPNP 

Christie Lynn Costanza, MPH, BSN, RN, CCRC   

Joanne Simone, RN, MS 

ANCC Contact Hours (6.00 hours)

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Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

All relevant financial relationships for all individuals in control of content have been mitigated.

Tuesday, April 28, 2026