2026 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES
The importance of professional development is that high-performing organizations recognize the significance of professional development plans for new and incumbent nurses as well as nurse educators.
2026 Workshop
- Understanding and Navigating the CT Board of Examiners of Nursing (BOEN) | January 29, 2026
Thriving in Nursing: The Vital Role of Self Care
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Lunch & Learn Workshop was held on Thursday, January 29th featuring facilitator Gina Reiners, PhD, APRN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, Chair of the CT Nursing Board.
Participants will be able to:
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The CT Center for Nursing Workforce, Inc. is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Connecticut Nurses’ Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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Gina Reiners, PhD, APRN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I am the Chair of The Board of Examiners of Nursing for the State of Connecticut, having been a delegate to the National Council of Board of Nurses in representing the State of CT in voting for nursing policy changes. I was appointed in 2013 by the Governor of Connecticut. I have a Bachelors (BA) in Psychology and (BSN) in Nursing, Master’s (MA) in Psychology and (MSN) in Nursing and Doctorate (PhD) in Education: Higher Education: Nursing Concentration. I am a certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, licensed as an APRN in the State of Connecticut, with prescriptive rights. I have over 40 years of experience in the psychiatric field as a staff/charge nurse and inpatient hospital director of nurses, PMHNP/PMHCNS manager/director of psychiatric programs in outpatient, inpatient, residential, emergency department, and mobile crisis units with acute and chronic psychiatric patients across the life span. During my career, I have been the administrator of hospital and outpatient based psychiatric programs at free standing psychiatric and acute care hospitals. I created and developed psychiatric programs throughout the State of Connecticut. Additionally, I supervised master’s prepared clinicians, including APRNs, LCSWs, LMFTs, and LPCs. I have been faculty/director and mentor with BSN, MSN, and DNP students at several universities. Currently I am a part-time faculty member in the Nursing Department at Yale University School of Nursing and the University of Massachusetts. I own a private practice specializing in Anxiety and Mood Disorders. Additionally, I developed and created several PMHNP inaugural master’s programs in CT and have presented at several nursing organizations across our nation. Furthermore, I was an expert witness for two legal firms in CT related to malpractice cases. |
