ELNEC Updates: November 2024

The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) is a collaborative effort between AACN and the City of Hope to improve palliative education.

Please visit our website – ELNEC Faculty Corner – to see many teaching and evaluation faculty resources, view past webinars, and send us an email with what you would like to hear about! 

Webinar Links since the last NewsWatch Update

September 2024

Empowering Nurse Educators: Interactive Teaching Strategies with ELNEC Undergraduate and New Graduate Faculty Guides

Six faculty guides have been developed to align with each of the ELNEC Undergraduate/New Graduate modules. Drs. Andra Davis and Megan Lippe provide an overview of the guides and offer suggestions for utilization within undergraduate nursing programs. Use these resources to engage students in deeper understanding of the module topics. So far faculty are sending in rave reviews of this comprehensive resource – don’t reinvent the wheel!

NOTE: Faculty who utilize ELNEC Undergraduate/New Graduate online modules can email elnec@coh.org to receive these guides. If you are considering using the online modules in your program, email elnec@coh.org to receive free access. 

October 2024

Advancing Compassionate Care: Our Journey through Graduate Palliative Care Nursing Education

Learn more about how the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has integrated ELNEC Graduate modules and expanded palliative care education across their graduate nursing programs. Drs. Carrie Cormack and Kathleen Lindell share their experiences with advancing nursing and interprofessional education at MUSC.

Upcoming Webinars in 2024

November 2024

Advancing Palliative Care Education: Innovative Strategies in Undergraduate Programs

Hear from three faculty teams about different innovative strategies they are using to advance palliative care education in their nursing programs. While the teams will speak about undergraduate education, the strategies can translate well for graduate education too.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Time: 4:00 pm ET / 3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
Register Here

December 2024

Advancing Palliative Care Education: Innovative Strategies in Interprofessional Education and Faculty Assessment

Hear from two faculty teams about interprofessional education initiatives they utilize in their academic programs. You will also hear from one faculty team about how they conducted a faculty needs assessment for palliative care education.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024
Time: 11:00 pm ET / 10:00 pm CT / 9:00 am MT / 8:00 am PT 
Register Here

New Publications to Support Palliative Care Education

• Lippe, M. P., Wingett, G., Davis, A., Jizba, T., Ehrlich, O., Cormack, C. L., ... & Kirkpatrick, A. J. (2024). Instruments for evaluating student learning outcomes in palliative care: A literature review. Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, 10-1097. DOI: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000001051 

This is an excellent resource for faculty exploring best practices in outcome evaluation.

• Haynes, J. G., & Dingley, C. (2024). Effects of a discourse intervention on end-of-life knowledge and attitudes of Bachelor of Science in Nursing students. Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, 26(3), 140-148.

One school shares their strategies to augment student learning with ELNEC Undergraduate/New Graduate modules.

Other Journals

• Jizba, T., Iverson, L., Hall, A., Cormack, C., & Prendergast, E. (2024). Enhancing Primary Palliative Care Competency With Graduate Nursing Students. Nurse Educator, 10-1097.

Learn more about how ELNEC Graduate is being utilized in four different graduate programs.

• Stubin, C. A., Avallone, M., & Manno, M. S. (2024). Addressing the 2021 Essentials with new approaches for developing leadership, resilience, and self-care/well-being in undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students. Journal of Professional Nursing.

ELNEC modules are named as a valuable resource to support student well-being, especially as part of Domain 9: Professionalism of the AACN Essentials.

New Faculty Resource Guides for ELNEC Undergraduate/ New Graduate

ELNEC has created a Faculty Resource Guide for each of the six ELNEC Undergraduate/New Graduate modules, which are available when faculty request access to the curriculum. Email elnec@coh.org to request the updated faculty resources guides.

Save the Date for Faculty Development Workshop

July 24-25, 2025

We are excited to announce that our second annual Faculty Development and Leadership in Palliative Care Workshop is returning in 2025 and will be bigger and better than ever! Registration will open in Spring 2025. This is a grant-funded two-day workshop to expand knowledge and skills in advancing primary palliative care education into nursing curricula. We have expanded the workshop to include tracks for BOTH undergraduate and graduate nursing faculty! If you would like more information when the applications open, click here. 

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 October 2024, there are 1,213 institutions using undergraduate curriculum and 408 institutions using the graduate curriculum. In addition to academia, practice-based settings across the country have found value in providing this foundational education to newly hired and newly graduated nurses in onboarding and residency programs.

If you are not familiar with the curricula, there are six undergraduate and six graduate 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. ELNEC Undergraduate/New Graduate are for pre-licensure or RN-BSN students, and those new to clinical practice in nurse residency programs.

ELNEC Graduate is designed for nurses in MS, MN, and DNP programs, which includes a module focused on advanced-level nursing leadership. These materials are foundational to meeting AACN Essentials competencies at both Level 1 and Level 2 in the sphere of hospice/palliative/supportive care and are FREE for faculty. To gain faculty access to the modules, contact ELNEC@coh.org.

On behalf of the ELNEC team
ELNEC Co-Investigators

Dr. Andra Davis
Associate Professor
University of Portland
davisa@up.edu

Dr. Megan Lippe
Associate Professor
UT Health San Antonio
School of Nursing
lippe@uthscsa.edu