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ForwardEnd-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Pediatric Palliative Care - May 2025
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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.
Additional Information
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
 Brochure-2025-ELNEC.pdf | 1.05 MB |
| Final Hours Symptoms of Impending Death and Interventions | 1.29 MB |
| Introduction to Peds Palliative Care | 448.65 KB |
| Symptom Management | 2.87 MB |
| Ethical Issues | 475.31 KB |
| Communication | 2.72 MB |
| Loss, Grief, and Bereavement | 2.17 MB |
| Perinatal and Neonatal Palliative Care | 771.58 KB |
| Case Study Slides | 579.25 KB |
| Cultural and Spiritual Considerations | 1.41 MB |
| Pain | 3.86 MB |
| Final Hours | 1.36 MB |
Thursday, May 22, 2025 | |
| 7:30 a.m. | Check in and breakfast |
| 7:55 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 8:00 | Introduction to Peds Palliative Care |
| Dora Mueller, MSPC, BSN, RN, CHPPN | |
| 9:00 | Symptom Management |
| Kristen Eisenman, MD, MSPC | |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:45 | Ethical Issues |
| Curtis R. Coughlin II, PhD, MBE, HEC-C | |
| Brian Jackson, MD, MA, HEC-C | |
| 11:45 | Lunch |
| 12:30 p.m. | Sudden and Traumatic Death |
| Andy Krack, MD | |
| Casey Plank, CCLS | |
| Danny Nguyen, BSN, RN, CPN | |
| 1:30 | Communication |
| Rachel Rusch, LCSW, MSW, MA, APHSW-C | |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:15 | Loss, Grief, and Bereavement |
| Jenn Flaum, LCSW, MBA | |
| 4:15 | Questions and Answers, Evaluation, and Wrap-up |
| 4:30 | Adjourn |
Friday, May 23, 2025 | |
| 7:45 a.m. | Check in and breakfast |
| 7:55 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 8:00 | Perinatal and Neonatal Palliative Care |
| Ashley Spalla, MSN-Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, RNC-NIC | |
| 9:00 | Cultural and Spiritual Considerations |
| Sara Reynolds, MDiv, BCC | |
| Rev. Jennifer Hill, MDiv | |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:15 | Pain |
| Jennifer Fanelli, MSN, APRN, CPNP-PC | |
| 11:45 | Lunch |
| 12:30 p.m. | Family Panel |
| Rachel Rusch, LCSW, MSW, MA, APHSW-C | |
| 1:30 | Final Hours |
| Jenny Sheperdigian, MSPC, RN, CHPPN | |
| 2:30 | Break |
| 2:45 | Caring for Ourselves |
| Adam B. Hill, MD | |
| 4:15 | Questions and Answers, Evaluation, and Wrap-up |
| 4:30 | Adjourn |
This course will be held in the Medical Conference and Education Center at the Children's Hospital Colorado. Virtual leaners will receive a Zoom link via email prior to the event.
Parking Information
CHCO team member should park in their assigned parking locations. Guests to the hospital may park in Lot 10 just East of the hospital on Victor Street.
Faculty
Curtis R. Coughlin II, PhD, MBE, HEC-C
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Colorado
Clinical Ethicist
Children's Hospital Colorado
Kristen Eisenman, MD, MSPC
Visiting Clinical Associate Professor
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Attending Palliative Medicine Physician
Children's Hospital Colorado
Jennifer Fanelli, MSN, APRN, CPNP-PC
Associate Director of Pain Services and Advanced Practice
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Instructor
Jenn Flaum, LCSW, MBA
Executive Director
HeartLight Center
Adam B. Hill, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Colorado
Ellie and Tanner Seebaum Endowed Chair
of Pediatric Palliative Medicine
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Rev. Jennifer Hill, MDiv
Chaplain
The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Brian Jackson, MD, MA, HEC-C
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Medical Director Clinical Ethics
University of Colorado School of Medicine and Center for Bioethics and Humanities
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Andrew Krack, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Emergency Medicine
University of Colorado
Associate Director, Resuscitation
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Dora Mueller, MSPC, BSN, RN, CHPPN
Specialty Coordinator Palliative Care
Pediatric Palliative Medicine
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Danny Nguyen, BSN, RN, CPN
Associate Clinical Manager
Anschutz Emergency Department
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Casey Plank, CCLS
Certified Child Life Specialist
Emergency Department
Children's Hospital Colorado
Sara Reynolds, MDiv, BCC
Chaplain, Spiritual Care
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Rachel Rusch, LCSW, MSW, MA, APHSW-C
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Colorado
Psychosocial Director
Pediatric Palliative Medicine Team
Children's Hospital Colorado
Jenny Sheperdigian, MSPC, RN, CHPPN
Clinical Nurse II
Pediatric Palliative Medicine
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Ashley Spalla, MSN-Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, RNC-NIC
Clinical Nurse III
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Children's Hospital of Colorado
Nursing: Children’s Hospital Colorado is approved with distinction 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. This educational activity for 14.5 nursing contact hours (5/22- 7.75 hours; 5/23- 6.75 hours) is provided by Children’s Hospital Colorado.
Others: A general certificate of attendance will be provided to all other attendees.
Available Credit
- 14.50 Attendance
- 14.50 NCPD
Price
Cancellation Policy
A registration refund, minus a $20.00 cancelation fee, will be granted if cancellation is requested by 14 calendar days from the activity date. No refunds will be granted after this date or for non-attendance. You may send a substitute by notifying the conference coordinator at least three days prior to activity.
Children’s Hospital Colorado reserves the right to modify the agenda or cancel this conference in the event of an unforeseen circumstance, or if minimum acceptable registration is not attained by May 9, 2025, with a full refund to participants. For additional information, please reach out to Ray Cuellar at [email protected]. If you require special assistance or services to allow full participation, please notify us at least four weeks in advance of the activity.