Improve your palliative care skills with our ELNEC Core Curriculum training module. The course covers the fundamental skills to provide proper End-Of-Life care.
End-of-Life-Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) is a national education initiative to improve palliative care. ELNEC Critical Care Curriculum is designed to teach palliative skills to nurses who work in intensive care, coronary care, burn and dialysis units, emergency departments, and other clinical areas encompassing critical care.
Please note that this curriculum does not currently offer nursing contact hours upon completion. Learners will still benefit from completing these courses and will be awarded a general certificate of completion. Nursing contact hours will return to this curriculum soon.
End-of-Life-Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) is a national education initiative to improve palliative care. ELNEC Geriatric Curriculum is designed to teach geriatric palliative care skills to nurses who provide care to people in post-acute care settings, including assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, hospices, and ambulatory care clinics.
ELNEC, or End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium, is a comprehensive program designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of nurses caring for patients facing serious illness or nearing the end of life. Developed collaboratively by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the City of Hope National Medical Center, ELNEC provides evidence-based education to improve the quality of care for individuals with advanced illness and their families.
The ELNEC training modules cover a wide range of essential topics, equipping nurses with the expertise needed to deliver compassionate and competent end-of-life care. These modules include:
By equipping nurses with comprehensive knowledge and skills, ELNEC empowers them to provide high-quality, compassionate care to patients and families facing the challenges of serious illness and end-of-life care.
ELNEC Pediatric Curriculum teaches perinatal and neonatal palliative skills. This accredited online CE course was developed by 20 palliative care experts.
Welcome to the Introduction to Palliative Nursing course for ELNEC Core, the foundation of this curriculum. This course will provide an overview of palliative care and the important and unique role you play in providing quality care. Working daily in healthcare, you may witness major deficiencies in current systems of care for patients and family caregivers, particularly for patients with serious illness. Social and economic forces influence care provided at this important time. It is essential that you collaborate with members of the interdisciplinary team to honor patients’ goals of care and to provide palliative care across the continuum for patients with serious illness and their families. Remember this care means both “doing for” and “being with.” That is the beauty of this sacred work, as it combines compassionate caring, concise communication, up-to-date/evidence-based knowledge and practice, and impeccable skills. The goal of this course is to provide nurses with an introduction to palliative nursing.
Welcome to the Loss, Grief, and Bereavement course for the ELNEC Core Curriculum. Within this important work, we often witness grief in our patients and their family members. As healthcare professionals, we experience a tremendous amount of loss for the many patients we have cared for, whether during an annual check-up in the clinic, during a hospital admission for cardiac by-pass surgery, during rehabilitation after a hip fracture, during home visits for blood pressure monitoring, or during memory care at a nursing facility. Grief and loss accumulate over time and may cause moral injury, compassion fatigue, and burn-out if unacknowledged. This course will assist you in supporting patients who are experiencing anticipatory grief and loss and providing excellent bereavement care to family, caregivers, and friends after a patient has died. Finally, it will discuss good professional self-care to allow you to continue this sacred work in a healthy manner. Although this content is applicable to nurses, social workers, chaplains, and other professionals may also find the content useful. The goal of this course is to provide nurses who work with individuals with serious illnesses in all settings with knowledge of loss, grief, and bereavement.