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PALLIATIVE CARE

Related Professional organizations

NHPCO: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
The purpose is to support continuous improvement in the quality of hospice and palliative care services, and business practice increasing use of palliative and hospice care and integration of end-of-life care into the health care continuum. http://www.nhpco.org

AAHPM: American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is an organization of physicians and other medical professionals dedicated to excellence in and advancement of palliative medicine through prevention and relief of patient and family suffering by providing education and clinical practice standards, fostering research, facilitating personal and professional development, and by public policy advocacy. http://www.aahpm.org/

CAPC: The Center to Advance Palliative Care
A national initiative supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with direction and technical assistance provided by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (NY), CAPC provides health care professionals with the tools, training, and technical assistance necessary to start and sustain successful palliative care programs in hospitals and other health care settings. http://www.capc.org/

EPERC: End of Life / Palliative Education Resource Center
The purpose of EPERC is to share educational resource material among the community of health professional educators involved in palliative care education Through your participation in this site, we seek to foster the continued development of palliative care education. http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/purpose.htm
Links—Clinical and Educational Resources/Palliative Care Programs:http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/links/link_ce.htm

ELNEC: End of Life Nursing Education Consortium
The ELNEC core curriculum has been developed to prepare qualified nurse educators to provide end-of-life education for nursing students and practicing nurses, and to provide resources to facilitate that instruction. These educators in turn will use the curriculum to integrate end-of-life content for students in undergraduate nursing programs, and offer staff development/continuing education programs for clinical nurses who provide end-of-life care. http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/links/link_ce.htm

PERT: Palliative Care Education Resource Team for Nursing Homes
PERT an educational research project funded by the National Cancer Institute (a division of the NIH) and supported by Swedish Medical Center. The goal of the PERT Program is to enhance end-of-life care in long-term care facilities. To achieve this goal, the PERT Program has developed a comprehensive curriculum of educational materials and resources. This curriculum is delivered through a series of interactive classes to licensed nursing staff and certified nursing assistants working in nursing homes.

The PERT Curriculum contains a wealth of resources, made available as easy-to-use PowerPoint presentations and PDF documents. These materials are provided free of charge; we only ask that you complete a questionnaire before and after using the curriculum. http://www.swedishmedical.org/PERT/curriculum.htm

Alzheimer’s Association. Hospice and Palliative Care in Alzheimer’s disease.
http://www.alz.org/Resources/Resources/rtrlhospice.asp

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Organization. http://www.hpna.org/positions.asp

American Thoracic Society: http://www.thoracic.org/

International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Inc. www.iffgd.org

American Gastroenterological Association www.gastro.org

Guidelines

World Health Organization. (2004). Palliative Care, Symptom Management and End of Life Care: Interim Guidelines for first-Level Facility Health Workers. Provides Guidelines for Health Workers supporting families in the community (European approach). http://ftp.who.int/htm/IMAI/Modules/IMAI_palliative.pdf

End of Life and Palliative Care Resource Center (EPERC). New Tools for Palliative Care.Check here often for new guidelines, tools and other information developed for palliative care. http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/

National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care. (2004). American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine & Hospice and Palliative Nursing Association Task Force. Clinical Practice Guideline for Quality Palliative Care. Accessed 10/29/2005 at: http://www.nationalconsensusproject.org/

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association.
End of Life Geriatric Resources. http://www.hpna.org/GeriatricResources.aspx

AGS. Geriatrics At Your Fingertips Online Edition -
http://www.geriatricsatyourfingertips.org/

Nurse Competence in Aging (NCA):
http://www.hartfordign.org/nca/index.html

Oregon Health Sciences University School of Nursing: The John A. Hartford Foundation Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence: http://www.ohsu.edu/hartfordcgne/

The John A. Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing: Geriatric Web Sites: http://www.hartfordign.org/pdf/geriatric_websites.pdf

Practicing Physician Education in Geriatrics http://www.gericareonline.net/

The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) Nursing Best Practice Guidelines (NBPG) Project. Retrieved June 6, 2004, from http://www.rnao.org/bestpractices/about/bestPractice_overview.asp

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Nursing: The John A. Hartford Center of Nursing Excellence: http://hartfordcenter.uams.edu/

University of Iowa College of Nursing: The John A. Hartford Center of Nursing Excellence: http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/hartford/index.htm

University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing: Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence: http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/centers/hcgne/about.htm


Last updated - March 2006