End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)

Houston, TX US
January 15, 2025

The Core Curriculum addresses the essential elements needed to care for both family and patient during chronic illness and End-of-Life. The Core Curriculum is made up of a eight different modules and will be divided up into four half-day sessions. This course will cover Module 1: Palliative Nursing and Module 2: Pain Management.

 

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 o f Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and are used with permission.

Target Audience

Registered Nurses

Learning Objectives

Part 1: Palliative Nursing
At the completion of this module, the participant will be able to:
• Describe the role of the nurse in providing quality palliative care for patients across the lifespan and health settings
• Identify with the role of collaboration within interdisciplinary or interprofessional team members while implementing the nursing role in
palliative care.
• Recognize how health disparities, population demographics, healthcare economics, and service delivery necessitate improved professional
preparation for palliative care.
• Describe the philosophy and principles of hospice and palliative care that can be integrated across settings to affect quality care for
individuals with serious illness,
• Discuss aspects of assessing physiological, psychological, spiritual, cultural, and social domains of quality of life for patients and families
facing serious illness.

Part 2: Pain Management
At the completion of this module, the participant will be able to:
• Identify barriers to adequate pain relief in serious illness for patients across the life span.
• List components of a thorough pain assessment.
• Describe pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapies used to relieve pain.
• Discuss the role of the nurse involved with pain assessment and management in serious illness.

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.00 Attendance
  • 4.00 Nursing Contact Hours

    Houston Methodist is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

    Houston Methodist will award up to 4.00 nursing professional development contact hours for this activity.

Course opens: 
01/09/2024
Course expires: 
02/28/2025
Event starts: 
01/15/2025 - 8:30am CST
Event ends: 
01/15/2025 - 1:00pm CST
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Houston Methodist Willowbrook
7800 Willow Chase Blvd.
Education Classroom 2nd floor
Houston, TX 77070
United States

Education Classroom 2nd floor

Kate Robinson, MSN, RN, OCN
Anastasia (Stacy) Jacobs, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, ACHPN

The activity's Nurse Planner has determined that no one who has the ability to control the content of this CNE activity - planning committee members and presenters/authors/content reviewers - has a conflict of interest. Please send any questions to [email protected]

Houston Methodist is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

To be awarded 4.00 continuing professional development hours, the participant must be registered for this class, attend the program in its entirety, complete course requisites, and complete the evaluation tool.

Available Credit

  • 4.00 Attendance
  • 4.00 Nursing Contact Hours

    Houston Methodist is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

    Houston Methodist will award up to 4.00 nursing professional development contact hours for this activity.

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