2006
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) (USA)
The award was given to AACN in recognition of the extraordinary work of the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) developed in 1999
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Top (left to right):
Pam Malloy, Judy Paice, Polly Mazanec, Shaughnessy Dixson,
Betty Ferrell, Celeste Jauregui, Patrick Coyne
Bottom (left to right):
Rose Virani, Kathe Kelly, Helen Emmott |
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), is the national voice for baccalaureate- and higher-degree nursing education programs in the United States. AACN advances nursing education, research, and practice by setting curriculum standards, building coalitions, supporting faculty and dean development, advocating for federal support, collecting data to shape public policy, and pursuing special educational projects in end-of-life/palliative care and geriatric nursing.
In 1997, AACN hosted a roundtable discussion, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to identify recommended competencies and guidelines for nursing education and end-of-life care. The resulting document Peaceful Death: Recommended Competencies and Curricular Guidelines for End-of-Life Nursing Care has become recognized as a key statement describing the knowledge and skills needed by nurses to provide quality care and opportunities for this content to be integrated into nursing curriculum across the United States. In 1999, AACN joined forces with the City of Hope National Medical Center to propose a national effort to correct deficiencies and create nursing education that would meet the recommendations of the Peaceful Death document. Over the course of several months of planning, these two organizations developed the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project.
The ELNEC training program is developed as a 2 ½ day train-the-trainer program, with the intent that undergraduate and graduate faculty return to their universities and disseminate the information to nursing students and other nursing faculty through training courses. To date, 415 baccalaureate nursing faculty, representing 334 U.S. Schools of Nursing (49%) and 300 graduate nursing faculty, representing 278 U.S. Schools of Nursing (63%) have completed the ELNEC train-the-trainer program. Nursing faculty have attended ELNEC-Oncology, ELNEC-Critical Care, ELNEC-Pediatric Palliative Care, and ELNEC-Geriatrics. In addition, ELNEC trainers have provided end-of-life training in 43 countries internationally.
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