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The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project is a national and international education initiative to improve palliative care. Since 2000, ELNEC is a collaboration between City of Hope, Duarte, CA and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), Washington, DC. ELNEC is the world’s leading nursing education initiative focused on improving the care of patients with serious illness and their families. Since its inception, this model academic-practice partnership between AACN and the City of Hope has reached healthcare professionals in all 50 states and over 100 countries around the world.
Learning Objectives
Day 1
- Identify the principles of palliative care that impact nursing care for children
- Identify spiritual and cultural considerations present at end-of-life
- Identify barriers to adequate pain relief in palliative care and describe pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies used to relieve pain
- Recognize most common distressing symptoms at the end-of-life
- Explain ethical dilemmas that may arise in pediatric palliative care and apply ethical principles in addressing these issues
- Describe the impact of patient death in the Emergency Department and the resources available to address these issues
- Describe four elements of resiliency to increase their capacity to flourish as healthcare provider
Download this brochure for details: 
2021 ELNEC Brochure.pdf
Kelly Drake, MSN, RN, CPNP
Palliative Care PNP
The Reach Team
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Heather Fitzgerald, DBe, MS, RN
Director, Resilience, Ethics & Wellness
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Rev. Paul Griego, MDiv
Chaplain, Spiritual Care
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Karen Jones, MS, RNC, HEC-C
Clinical Nurse Ethicist
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Faculty, CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities and CU School of Medicine
Lisa Justis, LCSW, CTS
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Child Protection Team
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Analise (AJ) Lotz, MA, CCLS
Child Life Specialist, Emergency Department
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Ami Miller, BSN, RN, CPLC
Clinical Nurse III, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Children's Hospital Colorado
Heather Peters, BSN, RN
RN Case Manager
Denver Hospice Footsteps
Jenny Raybin, PhD, RN, CPNP
Palliative Care Program Leader
The Reach Team
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of Colorado
Sara Reynolds, MDiv, BCC
Chaplain, Spiritual Care
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Aurora Walters, BSN, RN, RNC-NIC
Clinical Nurse IV, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Gray Woerley, BSN, RN, CPEN
Associate Clinical Manager
Emergency Department
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Nursing: Children’s Hospital Colorado is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. ELNEC Day 1 for 7.5 nursing contact hours is provided by Children’s Hospital Colorado.
Others: A general certificate of attendance will be provided to all other attendees.
Available Credit
- 7.50 Attendance
- 7.50 NCPD