Innovations in Palliative Care Competency in Nursing Practice: Elnec, Aacn, and Community Partnerships
Year: 2017
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: For 20 years, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) has endorsed a set of standardized end-of-life (EOL) nursing care competencies. Since then, the demand for nursing competency in palliative care has risen to the forefront. The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC), an education initiative to improve palliative and EOL care, has emerged as an international leader in ensuring all nurses attain competency. Using a train-the-trainer model, ELNEC provides nursing faculty, CE providers, staff development educators, and specialty nurses with training in palliative care to teach essential information in education and practice. Today, emphasis on palliative care across the illness trajectory from time of diagnosis through EOL, and across the lifespan, is required in all practice settings. In 2016, an expert panel of nursing faculty and leaders in palliative care revised the AACN EOL competencies to establish comprehensive palliative care competencies. The resulting AACN Palliative CARES document serves as a foundation to online teaching modules embedded in ELNEC curriculum. This symposium provides an overview of the AACN/ELNEC work, and how these modules are being used in a variety of ways to improve palliative care across settings. Presentations of this symposium will describe: 1. The AACN/ELNEC process of developing and advancing a new set of nursing care competencies in palliative care; 2. Creating and disseminating online modules to increase access to educational offerings; 3. Implementing the modules in an academic setting; and 4. Collaborating with community partners to incorporate community-created online learning modules into the ELNEC curriculum.
Source: Innovation in Aging
Authors: C.R. Shillam, P. Mazanec
Institutions: University of Portland, Case Western Reserve University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,977
OpenAlex ID: W2724114147