Steps To Complete Your Evaluation

The SPN 36th Annual Conference evaluations are hosted on the Express Evaluations site. Follow the instructions below to log in and access your conference evaluations. Please complete all session and poster evaluations and the overall conference evaluation prior to printing your evaluation certificate. Once you access and print your evaluation certificate, you will not be able to make any edits or updates to your evaluations. Conference evaluations must be completed by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, June 30. You will not be able to access and evaluate sessions after this date. You will be able to continue to access the site to print your conference evaluation certificate at any time.

The following are the criteria to complete and earn NCPD contact hours successfully: participants must meet the following criteria: 

1. Attend the entire session.

2. Complete the online poster and/or session evaluations.

Access Your Evaluations

Login details: 

  • Username: RegistrantID (you will receive an email from [email protected] with your unique RegistrantID)
  • Password: connect (all one word, lowercase. All attendee passwords are the same.)

Evaluations are separated into sections:

  • Session Evaluation (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
  • Virtual Posters
  • Overall Evaluation
  • Certificate

At least one session evaluation and the overall evaluation must be completed in order to access and print the certificate. Attendees can only complete one evaluation per concurrent session. The Poster Power Hour General Session and Quick Connects: Imagine and Innovate Concurrent Sessions V and VIII are made up of four presentations worth .25 NCPD contact hours each. You must complete all four evaluations to earn the 1.0 contact hour for each of these sessions.

In the Session Evaluation section, select a day to access and evaluate that day’s sessions. Evaluations will open based on the day and time.

Ex. Monday's evaluations will be available starting Monday morning, beginning with the pre-conference workshop session evaluations that will open at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time, then the Networking Session evaluation that will open at 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time, continuing in this pattern for each day. Please note that you will not be able to attend both a pre-conference workshop and the First-Time Attendee Member Panel and Networking Session, as they occur concurrently. You will not be able to access a session’s evaluation until the day and start time of that session.

All evaluations will remain open from 3:45 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, June 30.

The following is a list of the maximum contact hours available per day:

  • Monday (7.0 NCPD Contact Hours) – Pre-conference workshop evaluations (only accessible to confirmed workshop registrants)
  • Tuesday (6.5 NCPD Contact Hours)
  • Wednesday (6.0 NCPD Contact Hours)
  • Virtual Posters (4.0 NCPD Contacts) – all posters are eligible for evaluation but only up to 4.0 NCPD Contact hours will be awarded. Each poster is worth 0.16 NCPD contact hours. Attendees must complete at least 25 evaluations to be awarded 4.0 NCPD contact hours. Attendees may complete as many evaluations as desired, but the attendee will not be awarded more than 4.0 NCPD contact hours.

NCPD Contact Hour Breakdown:

  • Pre-Conference Workshop – 3.0
  • Conference Sessions - 17.5
  • Virtual Posters – 4.0

Example NCPD Contact Hour Breakdown:

  • Conference Sessions - 17.5
  • Pre-Conference Workshop and Conference Sessions - 20.5
  • Conference Sessions and Virtual Posters - 21.5
  • Pre-Conference Workshop, Conference Sessions and Virtual Posters - 23.5
  • Total Available - 23.5 NCPD Contact hours

The contact hour certificate will display the attendee name and contact hour total as well as provide a breakdown of the sessions attended and the contact hours awarded per session. The SPN ANCC and California Board of registered nursing provider numbers are visible on the certificate for reference. If you are interested in seeing what is included in a certificate, please view the sample certificate below.

View Sample Certificate

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected] or (312) -321-5154.