Staff in-services: the basics for betterment.

Learn how to turn your experiences at a nursing conference into a worthy in-service for your staff members.

Communication skills for end-of-life nursing care. Teaching strategies from the ELNEC curriculum.

The End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) is a train-the-trainer educational program that helps nursing faculty integrate care of the dying patient and the patient's family into the nursing curriculum. This article presents pedagogical techniques derived from the ELNEC teaching module on communication and key content areas for developing communication skills in end-of-life care. Competent end-of-life nursing care begins with an understanding of communication techniques and their potential impact on care.

Teaching cultural considerations at the end of life: end of life nursing education consortium program recommendations.

Background: The End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) is an end of life care nursing education program that addresses the many dimensions of culture, including ethnic identity, gender, age, differing abilities, sexual orientation, and religion and spirituality. This article focuses on one of the program's modules entitled "Cultural Considerations in End of Life Care."

Method: The ELNEC "Cultural Considerations in End of Life Care" module, which identifies important cultural considerations as well as strategies and responses to teach cultural competence and sensitivity in undergraduate nursing curriculum, is described.

Palliative care nursing: ensuring competent care at the end of life.

Major advances in enabling function and symptom management have occurred in the past decade. Older adults who would have been bed-bound at the end of life now can be offered interventions to help them live well until they die. People who once would have suffered from pain can expect to be kept comfortable with aggressive symptom management.