End-of-Life-Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) is a national education initiative to improve palliative care. ELNEC Core Curriculum is designed to train nurses, undergraduate and graduate nursing faculty, administrators, and researchers on fundamental palliative skills.

Approximately 18,000 nurses and healthcare professionals have been trained on pain and symptom management, ethical and cultural considerations, grief and loss, and communication skills using this curriculum.

• ELNEC Core Module 1: Introduction to Palliative Care Nursing
• ELNEC Core Module 2: Pain Management in Palliative Care
• ELNEC Core Module 3: Symptom Management in Palliative Care
• ELNEC Core Module 4: Ethical Issues in Palliative Care
• ELNEC Core Module 5: Cultural Considerations in Palliative Care
• ELNEC Core Module 6: Communication in Palliative Care
• ELNEC Core Module 7: Loss, Grief and Bereavement
• ELNEC Core Module 8: Final Hours of Life