Teaching Resources

• Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Dr. Betty Ferrell about ELNEC (April 2024): Check out the GeriPal’s podcast featuring our very own Dr. Betty Ferrell as she discusses how nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? Doing home care? Hospice visits? In the ICU at the bedside? Nurses.
• Podcast series from Health Affairs, called “No One Gets Out Of Here Alive.” In this series, Clemson University's Tracy Fasolino unpacks some of the legislative and policy issues associated with palliative care and hospice services through the lens of a nurse.
• "Podcast: No One Gets Out Of Here Alive: Palliative and Hospice Care", Health Affairs Podcast, February 8, 2023. doi: 10.1377/hp20230125.815257.
• “End of Life Simulation Journal Club”, Capstone Sim Cast: August 14, 2023. Listen via Spotify or Apple.

• WarnerPacific_EOL Care Conference Case Studies
• WarnerPacific_EOLC Sample Script Pseudonym Sam Raven
• WarnerPacific_From Linda Campbell- Warner Pacific, OR--NURS 210 Syllabus 2022SP
• WarnerPacific_Grading Rubric EOLC Script

• Interprofessional Palliative and End-of-Life Care Simulation 2022
• Nursing Student Palliative and End-of-Life Care Simulation 2022
• Outline - Unfolding Case Palliative Care Simulation 2022
• Simulation - Death Dying Professional Role Emotion 2022
• Simulation - Palliative Interprofessional Case Resources 2022

• Fernandes, C. S., Vale, M. B., & Lourenço, M. (2022). Exploring the use of games in palliative care: A scoping review. Palliative & Supportive Care, 1(21), 146-166. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35048889/
• Lippe, M. P., Eyer, J. C., Roberts, K. E., Ritter, E. R., DiMauro, P. K., McKinney, R. E., Jr, Williamson, C. L., & Rosa, W. E. (2023). Affirmative palliative care for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals. The American Journal of Nursing, 123(4), 48–53. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NAJ.0000925508.62666.99
• Potthoff, M., Kirkpatrick, A.J., & Jizba, T. A. (2023). Interprofessional primary palliative care: Do the AACN Essentials prepare nurses for collaborative practice? Journal of Professional Nursing, 46, 197-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2023.03.017.

Improving Representation in Primary Palliative Nursing Education: Developing Videos that Reflect the Needs of Mexican American Populations

These videos addresses a critical gap in primary palliative nursing care (PPNC) education – the need for expanded representation of diverse racial and ethnic groups in educational resources. This project created 5 video vignettes that capture culturally-congruent palliative care interactions to expand the representation of Mexican American communities in educational resources. The creation of these videos was funded by Texas Organization of Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Education (TOBGNE), UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing, and the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC).

Pain Assessment with Family Translator- Opportunities For Improvement
Description: The purpose of this video is to show a scenario in which the nurse does not demonstrate best practice with pain assessment and caring for a patient who has a non-English language preference. There is a companion video (Pain Assessment with Interpreter- Better Practice) that shows a pain assessment grounded in best practices that include the use of an interpreter and demonstrates use of a pain assessment tool.
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Pain Assessment with Interpreter- Better Practice
Description: The purpose of this video is to illustrate a nursing pain assessment that incorporates best practices with the use of an interpreter. As a reminder, the gold standard, or place to begin, is the patient self-report of pain. Many resources are available when patients are unable to self-report (Fink & Gallagher, 2019). There is a companion video (Pain Assessment with Family Translator- Opportunities for Improvement) demonstrating a similar scenario in which the nurse does not use best practice pain assessment and holistic care for a patient who has non-English language preference. 
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Cultural and Spiritual Assessment
Description: The purpose of this video is to show a cultural and spiritual assessment.
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Family-Focused Palliative Care in Difficult Decision-Making 
Description: The purpose of this video is to illustrate a therapeutic communication encounter with a patient with moderate dementia and chronic kidney failure as she and her family face difficult decision-making.
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Expert Testimonial on Providing Palliative Care to Mexican-American Patients and Families
Description: The purpose of this video is to consider how nurses can utilize cultural humility when providing palliative care to Mexican American patients living with serious illness and their families.
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Meeting the New Essentials: Collaborative Development and Integration of Primary Palliative Care at Four Universities
This session highlighted the collaborative work of Drs. Mollman, Pravecek, and Garren-Grubbs from South Dakota State University. This team, supported by HRSA funding, developed faculty resources for the integration of primary palliative care content for undergraduate and graduate programs within four South Dakota universities. The presentation included details about a tool they developed to evaluate the outcomes of their project, as well as helpful key takeaways for other faculty who seek to augment palliative care education initiatives within their own programs.