Innovative Community Collaborations to Advance Culturally Sensitive Palliative and End-of-life Care
Year: 2017
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: Continuing education and lifelong learning are essential to providing high-quality, safe nursing care to older adults. During development of AACN/ELNEC Palliative CARES online modules, an academic-practice partnership between the University of Portland and Familias en Accion resulted in evidence-based, culturally-sensitive palliative care online resources for continuing education purposes for healthcare providers. Collaboration between the university and AACN/ELNEC revealed a fit between Familias resources and needs for culturally-sensitive materials in the Palliative CARES online modules. Expanding the original purpose of these high-quality, community-developed online modules, the modules are now embedded into undergraduate nursing education and ELNEC train-the-trainer core and geriatrics curriculum. This partnership provides greater return on investment for funders, and expands the reach of the individual projects, ultimately reaching more nurses. Use of these online modules can streamline efforts to ensure older adults have access to goal-directed, high-quality health care across the continuum of disease trajectory and across the lifespan.
Source: Innovation in Aging
Authors: C.R. Shillam, P. Mazanec, M. Dahlstrom, S. Williams
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: W2727816652