| Conference Date | March 6 – March 7, 2025 |
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| Registration Open | January 7 - March 3, 2025 |
| Thursday, March 6 | Welcome and Introductions: 07:55 a.m. – 08:00 a.m. Class: 08:00 a.m. – 04:30 p.m. Breaks: 09:30 a.m. – 09:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m. – 01:00 p.m. 02:00 p.m. – 02:15 p.m. |
| Friday, March 7 | Welcome: 07:55 a.m – 08:00 a.m. Class: 08:00 a.m. – 04:45 p.m. Breaks: 09:30 a.m. – 09:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m. – 01:00 p.m. 02:30 p.m. – 02:45 p.m. |
| Where | Conference offered in-person and virtually via Zoom TTUHSC Academic Classroom Building, Room ACB 150 3601 4th Street, Lubbock, Texas 79430 |
| Contact | son.cne@ttuhsc.edu (806) 743 – 1208 |
Early Registration: January 7 - February 24, 2025
Late Registration: February 25 - March 3, 2025
| Register through Eventbrite. |
| To register by email contact son.cne@ttuhsc.edu or call (806) 743-3653. |
Dr. Kathy Baldridge is an FNP in Alexandria, La. She is the NP Education Specialist – Lead for Advanced Practice Education Associates, an ATI Brand. Dr. Baldridge is the author of Coding & Billing in the Outpatient Clinical Setting: A quick guide and editor of Hollier's Clinical Practice Guidelines, 5th edition. She has authored and co-authored multiple journal articles and book chapters. She is a dynamic and engaging speaker and is honored to be invited to speak at the state and national level. She has served on the Louisiana Association of Nurse Practitioners board of directors for 14 years, 6 of those years as President. She is a member of the Louisiana State Nurses Association and serves on multiple committees dedicated to nursing. She is a staunch advocate for the nursing profession and determined to align nurses across the nation with one voice to disrupt the current healthcare system. Dr. Baldridge is the recipient of the AANP award for excellence in 2016 and the AANP award for advocacy in 2024. She was inducted as a Fellow in the AANP in 2017.
Passionate about caring for others, Dr. Baldridge remains in family/internal medicine clinical practice where she cares for people with challenges in the social determinates of health. She earned her ADN from Louisiana State University, Alexandria in 1993; her BSN (2006) and MSN (2009) from Northwestern State University; and DNP from the University of Alabama in 2013.
Dr. Wendy Wright is an adult and family nurse practitioner and the owner of two, nurse practitioner owned and operated clinics within New Hampshire. Her family practices have won numerous awards, including Top Providers in New Hampshire 2020, Top 20 Fastest Growing Family Business, and Top 20 Women-Owned Business in New Hampshire. In addition, she is the Owner of Partners in Healthcare Education, a medical education company. She is the Past President of NPACE and the Senior lecturer for Fitzgerald Health Education Associates.
Dr. Wright is the recipient of numerous awards and was chosen by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as the 1999 recipient of the New Hampshire State Excellence Award. In addition, she received the 2009 NH Nurse Practitioner of the Year and the 2014 Top 5 Women in New Hampshire Business Award. In 2020 and 2022, Dr. Wright won the Top Family Practice Doctor in Souhegan Valley and the 2021 State of NH Advocate of the Year Award. In 2005, she was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners; in October 2014, a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, and in March 2017, a Fellow into the National Academies of Practice.
Dr. Wright is the founder of the NH Chamber of Entrepreneurial Nurse Practitioners, an organization designed to assist nurse practitioners with independent practice issues. In addition to full-time clinical practice, she presents nationally to different audiences and has been a speaker at over 1000 conferences in 47 states. She is the nurse practitioner representative to the State of NH Immunization Advisory Board. She has been a medical media spokesperson for numerous companies and has appeared on radio, television, and in print magazines. In October 2020, Dr. Wright was featured in the Wall Street Journal for her Nurse Practitioner Led Clinics and the care they provide. She is frequently consulted by malpractice attorneys around the area of clinical practice and has worked on more than 100 malpractice cases involving nurses and nurse practitioners.
2309 Mac Davis Lane
Lubbock, TX 79401
Tel: (806) 741-0200
Website: Hyatt Place Lubbock
2515 19th Street
Lubbock, Texas 79410
Tel: (806) 765-8900
Website: Staybridge Suites
4115 Marsha Sharp Fwy
Lubbock, Texas 79407
Tel: (806) 792-0065
Website: La Quinta
Our conference will be held in the Academic Classroom Building (ACB). There are 60 first come, first serve parking spaces in D2, which is the parking area directly in front of the Academic Event Center. If those spaces are full, you will need to park in F3.
Parking Map: https://www.fiscal.ttuhsc.edu/parkingserv/maps.aspx
Cancellations, Change Notice, and Conference Policies
Cancellations: Registration cancellation requests can be made by email to son.cne@ttuhsc.edu or through Eventbrite. A refund of the cost of registration, minus the payment processing fee and the service fee, will be issued. Cancellation requests can be made up until 48 hours before the conference
Transfer Registration to Different Event Format: A one-time transfer of a paid registration from in-person to virtual or virtual to in-person without a penalty will be allowed up until February 24, 2025. No registration transfers will be permitted after February 26 without a $35 fee.
In the event that the NP Conference has to be cancelled for whatever reason, a full refund of the cost of registration will be provided to those who have already registered.
Change Notice: Should this conference transition to a virtual only conference to accommodate unforeseen circumstances, registered attendees will be informed via email as soon as possible. Those who registered to attend in-person will be given the option to attend virtually or be offered a full refund.