How can I earn NCPD/when are evaluations due?

Created by Faye Team, Modified on Thu, 22 Jan at 2:38 PM by Stephanie Perez

You can earn up to 20 Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD) contact hours for the ONS Congress conference, plus additional contact hours for viewing posters on your own time. 

To earn your contact hours, be sure to submit your ONS Congress evaluation by 11:59 pm ET on June 10, 2026.

How to complete your evaluation: 
- Visit the ONS Congress site.
- Click on the evaluation button in each session you attend. 
- Click “Review Claimed Credit” at the top of the page to ensure you’ve evaluated all the sessions you attended. 
- Click “Complete the overall meeting evaluation to view your certificate” button when all sessions have been evaluated. This is where you will complete your overall conference evaluation. This must be completed in order to claim NCPD.
- When you have completed and submitted the overall meeting evaluation, your certificate will be generated.  As you complete session evaluations, your certificate will be updated with this information up until the evaluation deadline.
- Click “Review Claimed Credit” to print and save the certificate for your records. You can also email a copy of the certificate to yourself. Certificates will not be available in the ONS courses platform. 
Notes: 
- You must be logged in to complete an evaluation. 
- You must attend each session you evaluate.   
- You can complete your evaluation as you attend sessions or all at one time after you have attended all the sessions you wish. 
- You must complete the overall meeting evaluation to generate your certificate and earn your NCPD.  
- If you evaluate a session after completing your overall evaluation, your certificate will update to include the added session. You can only complete or add session evaluations up to the evaluation deadline. 
- You can return to the conference platform at any time after the conference to reprint your certificate, just be sure to log in. Your certificate can be accessed for up to 4 years after the conference.

If you need any assistance while completing your evaluation, please contact help@ons.org. 