@article{8c6aeef76aec48e0bef3ba1d7d0d77ae,
title = "Appraisal of the Pediatric End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Training Program",
abstract = "Major deficiencies continue to exist in pediatric palliative and end-of-life nursing education. The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)-Pediatric Palliative Care (PPC) train-the-trainer curriculum was developed to create a nursing education program to improve care for children and their families confronted with life-threatening illnesses (www.aacn.nche.edu/ELNEC). Two ELNEC-PPC training programs were held in August 2005 and August 2006. The purpose of this article is to present data from the precourse and 12-month postcourse follow-up of participants who attended the two courses. Findings from these assessments demonstrate a positive link between educational initiatives and clinical outcomes.",
keywords = "End-of-life care, Nursing education, Palliative care, Pediatrics",
author = "Jacobs, {Hollye Harrington} and Betty Ferrell and Rose Virani and Pam Malloy",
note = "Funding Information: Nurses spend more time and are more intimately involved with patients and families at end of life than all other health professionals do ( American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 1997; Field & Cassel, 1997 ), yet research has demonstrated that major deficiencies exist in nursing education for end-of-life (EOL) care, resulting in an overall lack of preparation to provide care to children and their families facing life-threatening illness. To understand this deficit, the researchers at City of Hope National Medical Center conducted a 3-year project titled, “Strengthening Nursing Education to Improve End-of-Life Care ( AACN, 1997 ),” which was supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. From 1997 to 2000, the research demonstrated inadequacy in the general content in nursing texts in EOL care as well as insufficient nursing faculty knowledge related to EOL content ( Coyne et al., 2007; Ferrell et al., 2005 ). For example, only 2% of the content found in 50 commonly used nursing textbooks was dedicated to EOL care (Ferrell, Virani, et al., 1999). Other national studies produced comparable results demonstrating that nurses were not prepared to deliver optimal EOL care ( Ferrell, Virani, Grant, Coyne, and Uman, 2000 ; Institute of Medicine Report, 2003). ",
year = "2009",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/j.pedn.2008.03.001",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "24",
pages = "216--221",
journal = "Journal of Pediatric Nursing",
issn = "0882-5963",
publisher = "W.B. Saunders Ltd",
number = "3",
}