Graduate Primary Palliative Care Competencies: It is Not Just About Specialty Education Anymore!
Webinar Description
The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project is a national education initiative whose mission is to improve palliative care both within the United States and internationally. Hear about the new Graduate Competencies and Recommendations for Educating Nursing Students (G-CARES) just endorsed by AACN for all Master’s and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs across the U.S. These primary palliative care competencies reflect the basic knowledge and skills all graduate students should have before graduation, whether providing direct and/or indirect care to patients with serious illness and their families. This webinar will prepare you to integrate these competencies into your graduate courses!
Objectives:
- Define the need for primary palliative care education for those in graduate nursing programs
- Describe the strategy of developing the primary palliative care competencies
- Discover ways to integrate the new primary palliative care competencies in your graduate curricula
Speakers
Pam Malloy, MN
Director and Co-Investigator of the ELNEC Project
Special Advisor on Global Initiatives
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Pam Malloy is an oncology clinical nurse specialist with over 40 years of experience in clinical oncology nursing, staff development, education, program development, and administration. Ms. Malloy is currently the national Director and Co-Investigator of the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Project and Special Advisor on Global Initiatives at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in Washington, DC. She serves as faculty for all the national ELNEC courses and has presented ELNEC in 11 international countries. In addition, she has developed palliative care nursing leadership curricula, taught, and mentored current and future nursing and physician leaders throughout Eastern Europe, Kenya, and Asia. Ms. Malloy directed the California Endowment project for AACN on developing cultural competencies for undergraduate and graduate nursing students. In addition, she collaborated with the US Department of Veterans Affairs to develop the ELNEC-For Veterans curriculum, which was presented to over 500 nurses, representing every VA hospital across the nation. Ms. Malloy serves on the Board of Directors of Living Room International-which provides hospice/palliative care services in Kipkaren, Kenya. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Leukemia, Lymphoma Society/Washington, DC Chapter and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF). Ms. Malloy is a Florence Wald Fellow, a Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing (FPCN), and the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). She has written and had published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, has written chapters for various textbooks, and currently consults on two palliative care grants. She was recently presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Polly Mazanec, PhD
Palliative Nursing Education Consultant
Research Assistant Professor
FPB School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Polly Mazanec is an oncology palliative care advanced practice nurse who has been on the ELNEC Faculty since 2001, teaching palliative care nationally and internationally. She has had extensive clinical experience in integrating palliative care into out-patient oncology settings and hospice programs and into nursing education. Dr. Mazanec is a Research Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (Cleveland, OH) and Co-Investigator on a Web-based intervention for long-distance caregivers of parents with advanced cancer. She is also the Co- PI and Project Director for Dr. Betty Ferrell’s, “Nursing Education for Undergraduate and Graduate Students”, funded by the Cambia Health Foundation. An important part of this project has been the development and dissemination of the new online ELNEC-Undergraduate curriculum, specifically designed to help educators in undergraduate nursing programs prepare future nurses to provide palliative care to seriously ill patients and their families. An online ELNEC- Graduate curriculum is currently in development and is designed to meet the AACN G-CARES competencies. Dr. Mazanec has published and presented in the areas of palliative care in the oncology setting, cultural considerations at end of life, inter-professional education in oncology and palliative care, and caregiving.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Education Credits:
Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.