Novice nursing professional development practitioners lack the experience and confidence needed to be successful in their new role. A large, multistate healthcare system implemented a facilitated, virtual nursing professional development fellowship program intended to bridge the gap by providing learning integrated with current practice, support, and community. An initial pilot of the program led to curriculum adjustments, resulting in a 6-month program that has demonstrated a positive impact on self-assessed learning gains.

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a rapid transition from teaching in person to teaching in a virtual environment, which forced many nursing professional development practitioners unfamiliar with this methodology to quickly adapt and acquire new skills. This article describes a course created to ease nursing professional development practitioners’ transition who suddenly found themselves teaching in this unfamiliar environment. The process described may be useful for other organizations transitioning to teaching in a virtual environment.

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