End of Life Care
Peaceful Death Competencies and Curricular Guidelines:
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Publications/deathfin.htm
This site, sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Nurses, is the result of a roundtable discussion of experts on palliative care and health care ethicists. They developed end of life competencies that they feel every undergraduate nurse should obtain.
American Journal of Nursing's Palliative Care Series
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/ELNEC/ajnarticles.htm
This website offers access to the American Journal of Nursing's Palliative Care Series. Articles are relating to palliative care are posted every other month using case studies in the hopes of improving the way nurses care for dying patients and their families.
End of Life Nursing Education Consortium Project (ELNEC)
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/ELNEC/about.htm
This national education program is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve end-of-life care by nurses. Primary project goals are to develop a core of expert nursing educators and to coordinate national nursing education efforts in end-of-life care.
End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Project
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/ELNEC/ELNECSeries.htm
This website lists all articles published by the ELNEC.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
http://www.nhpco.org/templates/1/homepage.cfm
This is the homepage for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. There is an abundance of information regarding what hospice is, what palliative care is, ways to choose a provider, benefits of hospice care pertaining to Medicare and much more.
Hospice Foundation of America
http://www.hospicefoundation.org
Hospice Foundation of America is a not-for-profit organization that provides leadership in the development and application of hospice and its philosophy of care for both personal and professional use. This site offers an abundance of information on a multitude of topics ranging from death and dying, to living with grief and ethical dilemmas, to caregiver information.
Hospice Association of America
http://www.hospice-america.org/
This is an informational site for both consumers and health care providers offering the latest information on Hospice Care. For consumers, information on services offered by Hospice, finding Hospice care, paying for Hospice, and a general review of the history of Hospice care is provided.
The American Hospice Foundation
http://www.americanhospice.org/
The American Hospice Foundation was established in 1993 to raise public awareness of the needs of the dying and the grieving. They promote hospice programs and services nationwide, focusing on schools, work environments, and healthcare systems. This mission of the American Hospice Foundation is to improve access to quality hospice care through public education, professional training, and consumer advocacy.
The Michigan Physician Guide to End of Life Care
http://www.michigan.gov/images/End-of-life_chapter_4_1186_7.pdf
This chapter presented by the Michigan Physician Guide to End of Life Care discusses palliative care options and offers additional resources regarding palliative care to the reader.
Advance Directives (has two case studies)
http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/advdir.html
Advance Directives
www.consultgerirn.org
Good overview of advance directives using the nursing process as the framework. Select advance directives from the geriatric topics.
Palliative Care
www.consultgerirn.org
Select palliative care from the topics
Pain and Palliative Care Assessment and Research Tools
http://www.hospicecare.com/resources/pain-research.htm
Innovations in End of Life Care
http://www2.edc.org/lastacts/
Extensive resources for end of life care?also includes end of life issues from a cultural and ethnic perspective.
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