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Excellence
in End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Award
winners have been named for the November 15-17, 2001 course.
Congratulations to the following individuals for leading
innovative implementation of the ELNEC curriculum within
twelve months of their ELNEC training:
Bonnie
Garner, Western Carolina University (NC)
Diana Hershey, Wells House Hospice
(CA)
Nancy Joyner, Altru Hospice/Home
Services in Grand Forks (ND)
Mary Lou Pederson, Northwest Renal
Network (WA)
Click
on an individual name to discover why that person is being
honored.
Bonnie
Garner
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Adapted
ELNEC with Pediatric emphasis by adding foundational
information and case studies to the seminar in Pediatrics
that addresses Children's Grief and Palliative care
issues and continues in the curriculum.
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Modules
6 and 7 were foundations for a seminar "Breaking
Bad News" at a national neonatal/pediatric conference.
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In-services
on children's grief presented to community & mental
health providers.
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Integrative
complementary therapies taught as elective to students
and as a continuing education course.
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Prepared
and submitted a manuscript "Preparing pediatric
nurses for excellence in palliative care".
Diana
Hershey
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Creative
outreach to the community in nursing, clergy, and other
disciplines.
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Implemented
interdisciplinary bereavement group for staff.
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Held
memorial service that included slide show, live music,
poetry reading, and candle lighting. There was also
abook of names in calligraphy and those who attended
received a sprig of "rosemary" for remembrance
and made flower petal sachets to give to family members.
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Reached
out to local nursing and medical schools to contract
the use of their institution (hospice) as a clinical
site. Within the year, she has been able to contract
to have 21 new students/month for 26 clinical days.
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Lectured
at area colleges: spoke in nursing program for Death
and Dying course; and spoke for the Mortuary Science
class on end-of-life care.
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Has
in-serviced three SNFs in the community on end-of-life
care. Plans to continue to in-service one SNF per month.
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Has
sent out mailing to area clergy for luncheon seminar
on end-of-life care.
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Submitted
a proposal to administration for incentives for RN and
CNA staff to become Hospice and Palliative Certified.
Nancy
Joyner
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Innovative
in working with the state to expand end-of-life care
and education at the state level.
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Works
with North Dakota Nursing Association Nursing Practice
Council on end-of-life and pain management goals for
the state as the two top practice issues for the coming
year
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Developing
Web site and networking with the State.
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Working
with University of North Dakota regarding on-campus
end-of-life courses and curriculum development.
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Has
conducted an ELNEC Train the Trainers course; 38 nurses
from throughout the state attended.
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Monthly
in-services for Home Care staff.
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Convinced
administration fto pursue end-of-life education for
staff.
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Designing
a palliative care team with a physician.
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Presenting
on-going education to staff, UND students, Fargo staff,
Social work conference staff.
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Personal
goal: accepted into PhD nursing program; research will
focus on assessing needs of rural nurses nationwide
regarding pain management provided at the end of life.
Mary
Lou Pederson
- Unique
opportunity to network and present end-of-life issues
in a less traditional practice setting (renal).
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conducted four training courses in four different states
in order to spread the word: Alaska, Montana, Washington,
and Oregon.
- Networking
has been with non-ELNEC contacts--mostly with renal/nephrology
nurses.
- Made
Board of Directors and Medical Review Board aware of
ELNEC training and increased awareness of EOL education
support for staff.
- Contributes
to the newsletter (renal) about EOL issues.
- Does
ELNEC "promos" when presenting at national
conferences (ie 10-15 minute presentations on grief
& loss, or overview on end-of-life) to increase
awareness of the need for further training in end-of-life
care.
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