Nursing Sites

Education

•   American Journal of Nursing's (AJN's) 16-part series: Palliative Nursing Series
  
  From The Nursing Center: "These articles, supported in part by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, encompass AJN's two-and-a-half-year series on palliative care, designed to help nurses take the lead in improving end of life care, whether at the time of death or early stages of a terminal illness..."
•   Columbia School of Nursing
  • Oncology Nurse Practitioner Program
  • Palliative and End of Life Care
• Daemen College Graduate Nursing Department Palliative Care Nursing
• Flinders University Of South Australia International Institute Of Hospice Studies
•   University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing Advanced Practice Palliative Care Nurse Certificate Program
• University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Minor in Palliative Care
•   Ursuline College Breen School of Nursing: Master of Science in Nursing, Palliative Care Program
• Vanderbilt University - Adult Nurse Practitioner with Palliative Care Focus

General

• Advanced Practice Nursing- Pioneering Practices in Palliative Care
  
  From Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care, an initiative of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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  • American Association of Colleges of Nursing - Peaceful Death: Recommended Competencies and Curricular Guidelines for End-of-Life Nursing Care
    
    "The purpose of the competency statements is to assist nurse educators in incorporating end-of-life content into nursing curricula. This document is developed with the understanding that few schools of nursing would offer a discrete course in end-of-life care. Thus, this document offers an approach to incorporating end-of-life content throughout the currently existing curriculum."
  • End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Project
    
    "The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project is a comprehensive, national education program to improve end-of-life care by nurses, and is funded by a major grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Primary project goals are to develop a core of expert nursing educators and to coordinate national nursing education efforts in end-of-life care."
•   American Society of Pain Management Nurses
  
  "The American Society of Pain Management Nurses is an organization of professional nurses dedicated to promoting and providing optimal care of patients with pain, including the management of its sequelae. This is accomplished through education, standards, advocacy, and research."
•    Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses (APON)
  
  "The Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses (APON) is the leading professional organization for registered nurses caring for children and adolescents with cancer and their families. The highest standards of nursing practice are achieved through education, research, certification, advocacy and affiliation."
•   CHPCA Nurses Special Interest Group
  
  "Over the past seven years palliative care nurses from across the country have expressed the desire to be recognized as a specialty within the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA). CNA has been most supportive of the desire to become recognized as a specialty and to that end have been working with us over the past year and a half..."
• Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA)
  
  "The purpose of the HPNA is to exchange information, experiences, and ideas; to promote understanding of the specialties of hospice and palliative nursing; and to study and promote hospice and palliative nursing research..."
•   Manitoba Palliative Care Nurses Association
•   Palliative Care Nurses Australia - Membership Application Form  

•   Palliative Care Nursing.Net
  
  "Here nurses may share information with other professionals about initiatives related to improving patient care at the end of life. With "One Vision, One Voice" nurses have the power to transform palliative care rendered to patients worldwide. This web site is an outcome of the Nursing Leadership Consortium on End-of-Life Care."
• Perspectives in Hospice Palliative Care: Nursing
  
  Document produced with the support of the Pallium Project. Contents include: Hospice Palliative Care Nursing Standards:How do these apply to our practice?; End-of-Life Care: Whose business is it?; Common Myths of Hospice Palliative Care

•   Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) Nursing Best Practice Guidelines (NBPG) Project
  
  "The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) launched the Nursing Best Practice Guidelines (NBPG) Project in November 1999 with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. The purpose of this multi-year project is to support Ontario Nurses by providing them with Best Practice Guidelines for client care."
• Wisconsin Cancer Pain Initiative - Competency Guidelines for Cancer Pain in Nursing Education and Practice