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ForwardEnd of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)
There is a lack of knowledge and skills required to provide care at end of life. This program provides knowledge and skills required to provide care at end of life. Positively impact the lives of patients and families facing serious illness and/or the end of life.
Target Audience
Nurse
Nurse Practitioner
Social Worker
Learning Objectives
1. Describe the role of the nurse in providing quality palliative and end-of-life care for patients across the lifespan.
2. Define the importance of ongoing communication with the interdisciplinary team, patient and family throughout an end-of-life process and discuss important factors in communicating bad news.
3. Discuss aspects of assessing physiological, psychological, spiritual, cultural and social domains of quality of life for patients and families facing a life-threatening illness or event.
4. Identify barriers to pain relief at end of life, components of a thorough pain assessment, pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapies used to relieve pain.
5. Identify common symptoms associated with end of life processes, potential causes of those symptoms and interventions to prevent or diminish those symptoms.
6. Discuss ethical issues and dilemmas that may arise in end-of-life/palliative care.
7. Define loss, grief, bereavement, and mourning, and provide interventions to facilitate normal grief.
8. Assess an imminently dying patient, listing signs and symptoms of the dying process, assess and provide support for the family of an imminently dying patient, and discuss the role of the healthcare team surrounding the death of a patient.
Additional Information
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There is a lack of knowledge and skills required to provide care at end of life. This program provides knowledge and skills required to provide care at end of life. Positively impact the lives of patients and families facing serious illness and/or the end of life.
April Hartzel-Lewis, MSN, RN, CHPN
Nancy Patchen, MSN, RN, ACHPN
Dr. Nesbitt
Kimberly Mains, LSW
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 16.0 continuing education credits.
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 16.0 contact hours.
Social Work
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 16.0 contact hours.
Other Healthcare Professionals:
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 16.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 16.00 ASWB
- 16.00 Attendance