The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project is a comprehensive, national education program to improve end-of-life care by nurses, and is funded by a major grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Primary project goals are to develop a core of expert nursing educators and to coordinate national nursing education efforts in end-of-life care.

This 3-year project began in February 2000, and is a partnership of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the Los Angeles-based City of Hope National Medical Center (COH).

ELNEC actually is a consortium of many organizations that are represented on the ELNEC Advisory Board. This diverse group insures that the ELNEC project brings together leading nursing groups and perspectives to form a collaborative approach to improve end-of-life education and care.

• Audio/Video/Slide Set Resources
• Books and Monographs
• CD -Rom Resources
• Educational Resources (brochures, booklets, guidelines, manuals and programs)
• Instruments/Tools
• Journals - list of several journals dedicated to content on pain and palliative care.
• Newsletters - list of several newsletters dedicated to pain and palliative care.
• Complete listing of pain organizations and State Cancer Pain Initiatives
• Slide Set Resources
• Videotapes
• Website/ Internet pain resources - listing of sites available
  

http://hab.hrsa.gov/SPNS/SPNSAbstracts/SPNS-Palliative.htm
including populations with HIV/AIDS: Asian and Pacific Islanders, Children, Homeless Men and Women, Migrant Workers, Native Americans, Rural Populations

http://www3.oup.co.uk/jurban/hdb/Volume_77/Issue_02/
The Journal of Urban Health Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine

www.growthhouse.org
Award-winning site on End-of-Life issues, with information on underserved populations

Program II
www.palliativecarenursing.net

www.hpna.org
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association

http://www.abhpm.org/
American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Program III
Marianne Matzo: Reference
Mitty, E.L. (2001), Ethnicity and EOL Decision Making. Reflections on Nursing Leadership, 27(1), 29-31

http://www.endoflifecare.org/navigate/frameset1.html
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
A National Program Office of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Beliefnet : discussion of end-of-life care, offering regularly updated assortment of articles, columns, and essays on end-of-life issues, plus message boards


Program IV
Last Acts: a national coalition to improve care at the end of life
http://www.lastacts.org/

Death in America: Project on death dying and bereavement
www.soros.org - Click on U.S. Programs

Partnership for Caring: America's voices for the dying: information on advance directives
www.partnershipforcaring.org

Dying Well
www.dyingwell.com

www.ethicalwill.com
Ethical Wills: Preserving Your Legacy of Values

http://www.aapa.org/gandp/eol.html
End of Life Decision Making

Program V
Death, Dying and Bereavement:
http://www.icfs.org/bluebook/si000006.htm

www.growthhouse.org

Program VI
http://www.healthteam.msu.edu/fcrp/patients.htm

http://www.ihpnet.org/4health.html
Interfaith Health Practices Homepage

http://www.nahc.org/
National Association for Home Care

http://www.nfcacares.org/
National Family Caregivers Association

www.americanhospice.org
American Hospice Foundation: The foundation advances the hospice concept of care and promotes hospices that seek to meet growing and complex needs.

www.caregiving.com: resources and support for family caregivers.

http://www.hospicenet.org/
Hospice Net: information for patients and families facing life-threatening illness.

www.hospicefoundation.org
Hospice Foundation of America