ELNEConnections End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium

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1 ELNEConnections End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Winter 2010 Welcome to the Winter 2010 ELNEConnections! The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium is pleased to bring you the Winter 2010 issue of ELNEC Connections, a quarterly newsletter to showcase efforts in end-of-life nursing education, research, and practice. This newsletter spotlights project developments and provides resources that may be useful to you as an ELNEC trainer. ELNEC is a national education program to improve end-of-life care by nurses. The project, which began in February 2000, was funded by a major grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Additional funding has been received from the National Cancer Institute, and Open Society Institute, and Aetna, Archstone, Oncology Nursing, and California Healthcare Foundations. ELNEC is administered through a partnership between the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the City of Hope (COH). In this edition, you will read about ELNEC Courses Remaining Across the Country for rd Edition of Textbook of Palliative Nursing Published Educational Opportunities Award Winners for 2010 ELNEC International Check Out the New ELNEC Trainer Directory

2 PAGE 2 ELNEC Courses Remaining Across the Country for 2010 Eight National ELNEC Train-the-Trainer Programs Remain for 2010 Two International Courses Offered March 16 & 17: April 29 & 30: ELNEC-Pediatric Palliative Care, Pasadena, CA ELNEC-Geriatric, Pasadena, CA* May 31, June 1&2: ELNEC-International, Kingston, Jamaica June 10 & 11: July 19 & 22: July 22 & 23: August 5 & 6: August 11 & 12: August 26 & 27: October 5 & 6: ELNEC-Core, Pittsburgh, PA (in collaboration with HPNA) ELNEC-International, Agodi Ibadan, Nigeria ELNEC-Core, Houston, TX (in collaboration with HPNA) ELNEC-Core, Portland, OR (in collaboration with HPNA) ELNEC-For Veterans ELNEC-For Veterans ELNEC-Critical Care, Pasadena, CA* *Free registration, thanks to a generous grant from the Archstone Foundation, for CA nurses only

3 PAGE 3 3rd Edition of Textbook of Palliative Nursing Published The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing 3 rd Edition Is Available Now in its third edition, this landmark textbook has become the key resource for all nurses working in the field of palliative care. Edited by renowned nursing experts Drs. Betty Ferrell and Nessa Coyle and written by a dynamic team of internationally known authorities in nursing and palliative care, the book contains 78 chapters which cover the gamut of the palliative nursing world. The volume s scope is broad to incorporate principles of care from the time of the initial diagnosis of a terminal disease to the end of a patient s life and beyond. For more information and/or to order this textbook, at a 15% discount, go to Educational Opportunities 3 rd Annual International Hospice and Palliative Care in Developing Countries Conference September 23-25, 2010 Plan now to attend the 3 rd Annual International Hospice and Palliative Care in Developing Countries Conference, September 23-25, 2010 in Fresno, CA. This conference will be presented by Hinds Hospice and Community Medical Centers. Student rates, as well as some scholarships for people in resource poor areas will be provided. Previous conferences have changed the lives of not only the people in need, but the participants, as well, states Nancy Hinds, one of the organizers of this conference. For further questions and/or to register, contact Nancy Hinds at nancy@hindshospice.org or Jill Hufft at jill@hindshospice.org ELNEC-Pediatric Palliative Care Modules to be Presented on the Hospice Education Network ELNEC-Core Presentations Continue The ELNEC Project and the Hospice Education Network (HEN) are in the process of videotaping the ELNEC-Pediatric Palliative Care (PPC) modules. These videos will offer the hospice industry, nursing schools and other interested individuals or groups online subscription access to nine ELNEC-PPC courses presented by national ELNEC-Pediatric Palliative Care faculty, including the newest module, Perinatal and Neonatal Palliative Care. Courses will be available for view after April 1, For more information, go to or contact info@hospiceonline.com or Fifth Annual Promoting Excellence in Pain Management & Palliative Care for Social Workers On July 30, 2010, the 5 th Annual Promoting Excellence in Pain Management & Palliative Care for Social Workers will be held at City of Hope in Duarte, CA. This course received the national 2008 Healthcare and Aging Network Award for Innovation and Quality from the American Society on Aging. For more information and/or to register at a reduced rate, go to SWC10.htm

4 Award Winners for 2010 PAGE 4 Ten ELNEC Trainers Awarded for Their Commitment to Excellent Palliative Care Each Shares a Unique Dedication to Their Profession The following trainers have been selected as the 2010 ELNEC Award Winners, due to their commitment in providing outstanding palliative care, education, research, and outreach to their community/ state/nation. Read more about their exceptional work at pdf/2010awardwinners.pdf ELNEC-Core Diane Deese, BA, EMT Madeline E. Lambrecht, EdD, RN, FT Jean W. Lange, PhD, RN VITAS University of Delaware Fairfield University Chicago, IL Newark, DE Fairfield, CT ELNEC-Critical Care ELNEC-Pediatric Palliative Care Bonnie Freeman, MSN, CHPN, RN Nathania Bush, MSN, APRN, BC Teresa Howell, MSN, RN, CNE Owensboro Medical Health System Morehead State University Morehead State University Owensboro, KY Morehead, KY Morehead, KY ELNEC-Geriatric ELNEC-International Sandra Lourido, RN John Lunn, RN, MDiv Roger Strong, PhD, Sayaka Takenouchi, Kennon S. Shea & Associates Global Mission ACHPN, FPCN BSN, MPH, RN El Cajon, CA India & Liberia San Diego Hospice Kyoto University, Japan San Diego, CA

5 ELNEC-International PAGE 5 ELNEC Curriculum Translated into Korean Translations in Spanish, Russian, and Japanese Are Also Available Under the leadership of ELNEC-Geriatric trainer Hyun Sook Kim, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Department of Elderly Health & Welfare and Director of the Research Institute of Health, Welfare & Education at Chungju National University in Chungbuk, Korea, Dr. Kim and her many colleagues have completed the translation of ELNEC into Korean. Nursing leaders from across Korea are using ELNEC-Korean to disseminate palliative care education in nursing schools, hospitals, and national cancer centers. This translation will assist Dr. Kim and her colleagues in writing and publishing curriculum and textbooks for certified hospice palliative nurses. If you have plans of travelling to any countries where Spanish, Russian, or Japanese is spoken and would like to take any of these translations with you, please notify the ELNEC Project Office and we will be happy to send you copies of the CD you request. (pmalloy@aacn.nche.edu) (In Picture From left) Sook-Hyun Park, Su Jeong Yu, Hyun Sook Kim, Sung Eun Chio, & Sanghee Kim Laikipia Palliative Care Centre in Kenya Opens ELNEC Trainers Continue to Provide Funding for This Ongoing Work In the summer of 2009, an ELNEC-International train-the-trainer course was held in Nairobi, Kenya. While there, the national ELNEC team met Joyce Marete, a nurse who was working at Kenyatta Hospice and also doing research on wound care, thanks to a grant from the Princess Diana Fund. Joyce shared with the ELNEC team that her goal was to go back to her village, Nanyuki, Kenya, and begin a palliative care program. However, Joyce needed funding to begin this work. The national ELNEC Project Team shared this need with trainers and you responded in such a way that Joyce was able to begin working as a palliative care nurse in a part of the world, where such care was unknown. Below, is an update from Joyce, sharing the reality of her vital work. Greetings from Laikipia Palliative Care Centre (LPCC). This is to let you know that we started offering palliative care services at Nanyuki. It is going well, a bit of a challenge, as is expected in all new beginnings. I will always remember my first home visit. It was a bright day and the sun was scorching hot. It was a 3 km walk. My first challenge was on the way to the home visit, my right shoe got torn and separated from its sole. I resolved to continue walking bare foot the rest of the journey and finally got to the patient s home. He was blind and in a lot of pain. I provided the necessary pain medication and offered psychological support. I managed to leave the patient and his relatives a bit more comfortable and as I left I resolved to think of more ways to relieve pain and suffering to the patients here. This experience was an eye opener for us at LPCC as we get ready for the challenges ahead. We appreciate your continued support. If you would like to help Joyce continue this important work, go to for further information.