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ELNEC Curricula

ELNEC | End-of-life nursing education consortium | Advancing Palliative Care | Since 2000

The first APRN course, supported by Cambia Health Foundation, debuted April 4 & 5, 2013 in Anaheim, CA with 115 APRN participants, representing 26 states. There are many palliative care teams across the US being led by APRNs and they are key team members who exemplify commitment to their varied roles in not only leadership, but practice, education, and research. Participants receive advanced education in pain and symptom assessment/management and communication. Additional education in palliative care-related finances, budgets, quality improvement, education, and leadership are also provided. Participants can choose to attend one of two tracks—adult- or pediatric-focused care.

View more information on current ELNEC APRN national course offerings or to register.

ELNEC Oncology APRN (EOA) is a five-year project funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The NCI grant provides 5 national training courses (2023 – 2028) and its purpose is to educate and provide resources to oncology advanced practice nurses in an effort to prepare them to provide primary palliative care. 300 advanced practice nurses attended the course in the first three cohorts. View more information on current ELNEC Oncology APRN national course offerings or to apply.

p>The area of communication has been a key part of the ELNEC curriculum since the project began in 2001. However, the national ELNEC Project Team received consistent feedback that more emphasis is needed on this important topic of communication. Debuted in 2018, The ELNEC Communication curriculum is based on the National Consensus Project (NCP) Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care with separate modules developed to address communication in each of the eight NCP domains: structures and processes of care, physical aspects, psychological, social, spiritual, cultural, end of life care, and ethical aspects of care.

 

View more information on current ELNEC Communication national course offerings or to register.

ELNEC Core/Critical Care is used to train staff nurses, advanced practice nurses, undergraduate and graduate nursing faculty, administrators, and researchers who work in acute care settings (i.e., medical-surgical and oncology units), clinics, homecare, hospice, and palliative care settings. In 2025, Core and Critical Care were merged, to include intensive care, coronary care, burn and dialysis units, emergency departments, and other clinical areas encompassing critical care.

Several national ELNEC Core/Critical Care courses are held each year.

View more information on current ELNEC Core/Critical Care national course offerings or to register.

With life expectancy increasing and the numbers of aging adults growing each day, the healthcare system in the U.S. and abroad requires nurses to be educated in meeting the palliative care needs of older adults. The ELNEC Geriatric curriculum addresses the specific educational needs of nurses who provide care to people who reside at home or are being cared for in community-based settings, such as assisted living, nursing communities, skilled nursing settings, hospices, or ambulatory care clinics. Each module provides essential elements of geriatric palliative care that are easy to teach and implement across community care settings. Unique features of the course include a focused module on geriatric palliative care that elaborates on physiologic changes in older adults, medications, and chronic conditions using a person-centered approach. Geriatric syndromes are integrated across all 8 modules. Undergraduate and graduate nursing faculty report that its supplemental teaching materials and case studies are invaluable to their current lectures. In addition, the curriculum includes supplemental teaching strategies for educating unlicensed personnel that work with geriatric patients and their families.

View more information on current ELNEC Geriatric national course offerings or to register.

ELNEC Pediatric was designed and developed by 20 pediatric palliative care experts and piloted in 2003. The curriculum also includes perinatal and neonatal content. In 2021, we added a new specific module focused on Perinatal Palliative Care to the curriculum.

View more information on current ELNEC Pediatraic Palliative Care national course offerings or to register.

ELNEC training courses (Core, Geriatric and Pediatric) are available online through Relias. Each online curriculum is designed for the learner to go at their own pace. CEs are available and learners will receive a certificate of completion. NOTE: the online Relias courses are trainings, not Train-the-Trainer courses. For our Train-the-Trainer courses, please see our Summits/National Courses.

The ELNEC Undergraduate/New Graduate Curriculum, updated and revised in 2023, is an online curriculum for pre-licensure nursing students, RN-BSN nursing students and those new to clinical practice in a nurse residency or orientation program. The curriculum contains six interactive modules (1-2 hours each) which prepare the learner to meet the 黑料吃瓜王 CARES competencies for primary palliative care. The modules contain cases, critical thinking and clinical judgement case-based questions, video demonstrations of primary palliative care skills, and an NCLEX-style quiz at the end of the module. Upon successful mastery of the content in all six modules (80% or higher on the quizzes), learners receive an ELNEC certificate for their portfolios.

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NOTE: CEs are not provided for registered nurses who are students in an RN-BSN program nor graduate school of nursing.

The ELNEC Graduate Curriculum, updated and revised in 2025, is an online curriculum for master’s and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students, designed to meet the 黑料吃瓜王 G-CARES competencies for advanced practice primary palliative care. The curriculum, modeled after ELNEC Undergraduate/New Graduate, contains six one-hour interactive modules. All content is essential for those becoming advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) across all six population foci.

The modules contain cases, video demonstrations of APRNs performing primary palliative care skills such as advance care planning conversations, pain and symptom management, and leadership in primary palliative care. Following successful completion of all six modules (80% or higher on the quizzes), learners receive an ELNEC completion certificate for their portfolios.

For free faculty access to view the curriculum, please contact elnec@coh.org.

Supplemental teaching resources are available for any faculty member using the curriculum in their schools by contacting elnec@coh.org.

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NOTE: CEs are not provided for registered nurses who are students in an RN-BSN program nor graduate school of nursing.

While the initial ELNEC efforts, launched in 2000, were focused in the United States, many ELNEC trainers have had opportunities to travel internationally and provide this education to nurses and other healthcare providers throughout the world. Currently, ELNEC trainers and faculty have traveled to six of the seven continents, representing 101 countries. Many trainers have provided ELNEC educational courses, while others have gone as consultants to work with educators, health administrators, and community leaders to improve care of the seriously ill in their countries. Some are working on translating ELNEC into other languages and adapting it to increase the relevance to other cultures. As of 2020, ELNEC has been translated into 12 additional languages: Albanian, Armenian, Chinese, Czech, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.

Building palliative care leaders has been a major emphasis of the national ELNEC team. To date, 100+ nurses and physicians have attended leadership courses from 2014-2019. To find an international ELNEC trainer, visit this page and go to the International Trainers tab.

The ELNEC For Veterans curriculum was updated in 2023 and is designed to meet the unique needs of nurses caring for Veterans with serious illness. The expertise gained at these courses promises to improve the quality of palliative care for thousands of Veterans in 153 Department of Veterans’ Affairs Medical Centers across the U.S. To date, six national train-the-trainer Veterans courses have been held across the U.S. with 745 nurses and other members of the interdisciplinary team in attendance, representing over 200 VA facilities (i.e., medical centers, clinics, CLC’s, etc.). Community partners with VA (i.e., homecare, hospice, etc.) have attended these courses, too, as they care for many Veterans in various community settings.

Access ELNEC Undergraduate/New Graduate and ELNEC Graduate

Introduce ELNEC Curricula to your Institution
Sample Proposal to Introduce ELNEC Curriculum/a to Your Institution
Use this sample proposal for your dean/colleagues/institution. Many faculty have requested a template to generate for their institutions, so this layout can assist in incorporating the ELNEC curricula into your program/s. Should you need anything further, please contact us at ELNEC@coh.org.

Need Faculty Access?
Should you or your colleagues need free access to either ELNEC Undergraduate/New Graduate and/or ELNEC Graduate curricula, please email ELNEC@coh.org and we can request access. Please mention which curricula you would like access to.

Free Faculty Access

Important: students will need to use their school email address (for faculty tracking/reports).
Remember the curriculum will be available only for 12 months, so please be aware when planning courses.

There are 3 options for getting students set up:

  1. Schools can ask students to purchase the curriculum, much like they would a text book, at $29.
  2. Relias can set up your institution’s bookstore with the curriculum so students can use their financial aid to purchase the curriculum. The good thing is that it’s easy/self-service for the students once they sign up.
  3. If your school wants to purchase the curriculum on behalf of the students, we offer a volume discount for students (see below).
Group Size Discount Rate Low Limit High Limit
1-24 students 5% discount $29.00 $661.20
25-49 students 7.5% discount $670.63 $1,314.43
50-74 students 10% discount $1,305 $1,931.40
75-99 students 12.5% discount $1,903.13 $2,515.13
100-149 students 15% discount $2,465 $3,672.85
150+ students 20% discount $3,480 n/a

Cost:
$29.00 per student for 1 year of online access
$49.00 per student for 2 years of online access
$69.00 per student for 3 years of online access

Purchasing Options:

  1. Standard Retail – 1, 2, and 3-year options: Individuals directly purchase the curriculum for the length of time they need access to the curriculum. Best suited for groups who want their students to purchase individually. Allows flexibility around the length of time students will have access to the material.
  2. Tokens: Faculty purchases bulk tokens to distribute to their students. Tokens have one year to be redeemed from date of purchase and one year to use from date of redemption.  Best suited for schools who are paying the cost of the curriculum on behalf of their students or who will add a course fee that students will pay.
  3. B2B: University signs a contract to purchase access from Relias for a certain number of students for a set number of years. Allows faculty to administer the platform, including enrolling students, assigning due dates, and running reports. Allows flexibility around the length of time students will have access to the curriculum and has the capability to integrate third party content. Best suited for schools who are paying the cost of the curriculum on behalf of their students or who will add a course fee that students will pay. Requires a one-time up-front implementation fee. Please contact wsmith@relias.com for more information.

Any curricula/content queries, please reach out to ELNEC@coh.org 

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Need ELNEC Undergraduate/New Graduate or ELNEC Graduate added to your Institution’s Bookstore?
We got you covered. Relias can set up your institution’s bookstore with the curriculum so students can use their financial aid to purchase the curriculum. The good thing is that it’s easy/self-service for the students once they sign up. Just reach out to us and we can connect you with Relias.