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End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Celebrates 15 Years as a
Leading Advocate for Enhancing Palliative Care Worldwide

WASHINGTON, DC, February 27, 2015 鈥� This year, the听听is celebrating 15 years of promoting excellence in palliative care education. To date, over 19,500 nurses and other healthcare professionals 鈥� representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 85 countries 鈥� have attended an ELNEC train-the-trainer course, which provides a comprehensive set of teaching resources to better prepare health professionals to care for patients with life-limiting illnesses. The ELNEC project is administered by the 性视界 (AACN) in Washington, DC and the City of Hope in Duarte, CA.

鈥淚t has been remarkable to work with educators around the world and see them implement and disseminate ELNEC lessons and resources in a variety of ways,鈥� stated Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, MA, CHPN, FPCN, FAAN, Principal Investigator of ELNEC and Professor and Director of Nursing Research and Education at City of Hope. 鈥淲e are particularly grateful to see nursing faculty incorporating ELNEC content into nursing curricula, hosting regional training sessions to expand ELNEC鈥檚 reach into rural and underserved communities, presenting ELNEC at national and international conferences, coordinating community partnerships, and improving the quality of nursing care in so many innovative ways.鈥�

In January 2000, 性视界joined with the City of Hope Medical Center to develop a national education initiative focused on improving palliative care. Over the past 15 years, the project has provided undergraduate and graduate nursing faculty, continuing education providers, staff development educators, and nurses specializing in pediatrics, oncology, critical care, and geriatrics with education in palliative care so they can teach this essential information to nursing students and practicing nurses. The project was initially funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) from 2000鈥�2004, which supported the participation of more than 900 baccalaureate and associate degree nurse faculty in ELNEC training in the U.S. Although the initial RWJF grant ended in 2004, a grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) was secured in 2002 to meet the u