ELNEC Updates: July 2024

The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC), a collaborative initiative by the AACN and the City of Hope to enhance palliative care, has several updates. These include a monthly webinar series designed to assist nursing schools in integrating palliative and end-of-life education, among other resources and initiatives.

ELNEC Faculty Corner

We are taking time this summer to plan for the next school year’s monthly webinar series to support schools of nursing in efforts to integrate palliative and end-of-life education. Please visit our website to see the many faculty resources, view past webinars, and send us an email with your areas of interest.  

Recent Webinars

April 2024
Using a New Faculty Guidebook to Develop Undergraduate Palliative Care Learning Activities 

March 2024  
New Palliative Care Education Videos Reflecting Mexican American Populations

Evaluating Nursing Students

We have recently updated our Evaluation Resources page on the ELNEC Faculty Corner. We have included instruments that evaluate palliative care knowledge, perceived competence, and competence. 

A new literature review on instruments that evaluate student learning outcomes in palliative care is forthcoming in the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing (JHPN).  This will be an excellent resource for faculty exploring best practices in outcome evaluation. 

For a fabulous and inspiring story of ELNEC’s history, you’ll love this interview with Dr. Betty Ferrell:  

GeriPal showcases Dr. Betty Ferrell: Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC. This 50-minute interview provides an inspiring reflection on the impact of primary palliative and end-of-life care education and the essential role nurses play in caring for people with serious illness.  

ELNEC Undergraduate/New Graduate and ELNEC Graduate Curricula

Both ELNEC Undergraduate/New Graduate and ELNEC Graduate curricula continue to reach more institutions than ever before. As of June, there are 1207 undergraduate and 405 graduate programs using the curricula.  In addition to academia, practice-based settings across the country such as new hire and residency programs have found value in providing this foundational education to newly hired and newly graduated nurses. ELNEC Graduate is designed for nurses in MS, MN, and DNP programs. 

If you are not familiar with the curricula, there are six online modules to prepare students with critical content, such as communicating with patients and families experiencing serious illness, pain, and symptom management, and caring for those nearing the end of life. These materials are foundational to meeting AACN Essentials competencies at both Level 1 and Level 2 in the sphere of hospice/palliative/supportive care. 

For more information and FREE access to the modules, contact ELNEC@coh.org. 

Wishing you a restorative summer and we’ll see you in the Fall.

ELNEC Co-Investigators.