Abstract
Describe the role of the nurse in providing quality palliative care for patients across the lifespan. Identify the need for collaborating with interdisciplinary team members while implementing the nursing role in palliative care. Recognize changes in population demographics, healthcare economics, and service delivery that 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 at the end of life. Discuss aspects of assembling physiological, psychological, spiritual, and social domains of quality of life for patients and families facing a lifeâ€threatening illness or event.
Sigma Membership
Gamma Tau at-Large
Lead Author Affiliation
End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC), Washington, DC, USA
Type
Presentation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Expert Opinion (nationally/internationally recognized)
Research Approach
Qualitative Research
Keywords:
Palliative Care, Nursing, End of Life Care, Hospice, Education, Palliative Nursing Education, Palliative Nurse, Nurse Education
Recommended Citation
Ferrell, Betty Rolling; Malloy, Pamela; Mazanec, Polly M.; Paice, Judith Ann; and Coyne, Patrick, "ELNEC Core Module 1: Palliative Nursing Care" (2018). General Submissions: Presenations (Oral and Poster). 55.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/gen_sub_presentations/2018/presentations/55
Conference Name
ELNEC 2018
Conference Host
End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)
Conference Location
Washington, D.C., USA
Conference Year
2018
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ELNEC Core Module 1: Palliative Nursing Care
Washington, D.C., USA
Describe the role of the nurse in providing quality palliative care for patients across the lifespan. Identify the need for collaborating with interdisciplinary team members while implementing the nursing role in palliative care. Recognize changes in population demographics, healthcare economics, and service delivery that 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 at the end of life. Discuss aspects of assembling physiological, psychological, spiritual, and social domains of quality of life for patients and families facing a lifeâ€threatening illness or event.
Description
ELNEC Core is a curriculum composed of 9 modules and this is just a glimpse of one of the modules.