AACN - ELNEC - Upcoming Training Sessions

ELNEC Training Course: June 18, 2008, September 24, 2008, December 3, 2008, Kaweah Delta Healthcare District, Visalia, CA
For more information and/or to register, contact Ellen Woods at ewoods@kdhcd.org or 559-624-5257.

ELNEC-SuperCore Training Course: March 10-April 28, 2008, M-Tec Center at Bay College, Escanaba, MI
For more information and/or to register, contact Lori Shea at sheal@baycollege.edu or 906-786-5802, Ext. 1212.

ELNEC-SuperCore Training Course: April 4 and May 8, 2008; Oakland, CA
The location of this course is 1950 Franklin Blvd, Oakland, CA 94612. For more information, contact Pamela Coulter at Pamela.C.Coulter@kp.org or 510-421-0718.

ELNEC-SuperCore Training Course: April 19, 2008; Washington, DC
For more information and/or to register, contact Linda Miller at lzm1@gunet.georgetown.edu or 202-444-4503.

ELNEC-Core Training Course: April 24 & 25, 2008, Burlington, NC
For more information and/or to register, contact Vanessa Sweger at vanessa@hospiceac.org or 336-532-0149

ELNEC-Geriatric Train-the-Trainer: April 29-30, 2008; Little Sisters of the Poor, Richmond, VA
For more information and/or to register, go to www.vanha.org.

ELNEC-Oncology Training Course: May 1 & 2, 2008; South Coast Hospice Bereavement Center, Coos Bay, OR
For further information and/or to register, contact Cindy Benward at 541-269-8076 or cbenwa@bayareahospital.org.

ELNEC-Graduate Training Course: June 4, 17-18, 2008, University Center, Sioux Falls, SD
For more information and/or to register, contact Mary Minton at Mary.Minton@sdstate.edu or 605-393-5762. Note that this course is for nurses with a BSN or higher degree.

ELNEC-Core Training Course: June 23, 2008, Durham, NC
For more information and/or to register, contact April Perry, Duke Homecare and Hospice, april.perry@duke.edu.

ELNEC-Core Training Program: June 23-24, 2008; Fayetteville, NC
For more information and/or to register, contact Susan Parrish at srparrish@capefearvalley.com or 910-609-4681.

ELNEC-SuperCore Train-the-Trainer Course: September 14-16, 2008, Ocean City, MD
For more information and/or to register, contact Millie Martin 410-729-4571 and www.hnmd.org/educationalevents.htm.

ELNEC-Pediatric Palliative Care Training Program: May 29 & 30, 2008; George Mark Children's House, San Leandro, CA
For more information and/or to register, contact Tasia Cammack at tcammack@georgemark.org, or 510-346-4624.

ELNEC-Pediatric Palliative Care Training Program: September 11 & 12, 2008; George Mark Children's House, San Leandro, CA
For more information and/or to register, contact Tasia Cammack at tcammack@georgemark.org, or 510-346-4624.

ELNEC-Pediatric Palliative Care Training Program: October 9 & 10, 2008; Richmond, VA
For more information and/or to register, contact Deborah Fisher at dfisher@mcvh-vcu.edu, 804-828-6781.

Trainer Opportunities

To list your opportunity here, contact The ELNEC Project Office at pmalloy@aacn.nche.edu.

Educational Opportunities

Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) Launches New Online Discussion Forum: CAPCconnect is First Forum Devoted to Operational Side of Palliative Care
CAPC has launched the CAPCconnect Online Discussion Forum – the only discussion forum dedicated to palliative care program development and growth. “This new discussion platform is where the palliative care community can get informed, interact with colleagues, and begin to put into practice what they learn from others,” says Lisa Morgan, CAPC Director of Communications. The forum is fully moderated by CAPC and PCLC faculty. Discussion forum topic areas include "Designing a Program," "Data Collection and Measurement," "Staffing" and "Palliative Care Out-Patient Services.”
To learn more and join, palliative care professionals can go to www.capc.org/forums
For further questions, contact: Lisa Morgan, Center to Advance Palliative Care, 212.201.2675 or lisa.morgan@mssm.edu.

August 26 & 27, 2008, "Hospice and Palliative Care in Developing Countries." Fresno, CA
Presented by Hinds Hospice. For more info, contact Nancy Hinds at nancy@hindshospice.org
559-224-4901

16th National Perinatal Bereavement Conference, October 16-19, 2008, Clearwater, FL. For more information, go to: http://www.perinatalbereavementconference.org/

Palliative Care Leadership Center (PCLC) Training

Benefit from two days of on-site, hands-on training and a full year of follow-up mentoring by training at one of six Palliative Care Leadership CentersSM (PCLC). Learn from the experience of established palliative care programs how to finance, design, market and operate a successful program.

Interdisciplinary team approach - targeted to physicians, nurses, social workers, administrators and other healthcare professionals interested in starting palliative care programs. A national initiative of The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).

Approved for 13 Hours, Category 1, Physician CME Credit. Nursing and Social Work Accreditation Pending

Advocacy Opportunities

Advance Directives
As healthcare leaders, you know and appreciate the importance of establishing advance directives and the problems that arise when patients and families have not taken the time to consider their "end-of-life" options. These are issues that affect all of us.
National Healthcare Decisions Day will occur on April 16, 2008. The purpose of this day is to heighten awareness of the need for advance directives among beneficiaries, employees, employers, professionals and the healthcare industry in general; ultimately to raise the levels of completed directives. http://www.nationalhealthcaredecisionsday.org/takeaction/organize_community.