LIVE AND VIRTUAL COURSE

Overview

The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Project is a national and international end of-life/palliative care educational program administered by City of Hope (COH) designed to enhance palliative care in nursing.

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.

Target Audience

This course was developed for healthcare professionals to provide a more thorough understanding of how the end of child's life impacts families, friends, and caregivers. 

Who should attend?

• Undergraduate and graduate pediatric nursing faculty
• CE providers and staff development educators working in-pediatric settings
• Hospice nurses
• Homecare nurses
• APRN/staff nurses working in pediatric acute care settings (i.e. oncology, medical/surgical, palliative care settings, NICU, PICU, clinics, etc.)

Other members of the pediatric interdisciplinary team are welcome to attend, with the understanding that the curriculum is written by nurses for nurses.

Learner Outcome

After attending this event, participants will report increased knowledge related to providing evidence-based care for patients, as well as emotional and spiritual support to caregivers and survivors.

Objectives

• 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.
• Explain ethical dilemmas that may arise in pediatric palliative care and apply ethical principles in addressing these issues.
• Discuss the role of the nurse at the time of a child’s death.
• 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 providers.
• Describe unique characteristics of neonatal palliative care and strategies to overcome.
• Describe communication strategies for end of life discussions.
• Recognize most common distressing symptoms at the end-of-life.
• Describe the concepts of grief and bereavement and identify tools that can be used to support families.
• Identify strategies for becoming a change agent with palliative care and end of life.

*The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Project is a national and international end- of-life/palliative care educational program administered by City of Hope (COH) designed to enhance palliative care in nursing. Materials are copyrighted by City of Hope and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and are used with permission.