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Author: lindavancil
Date: Apr 23, 2009 3:51 pm
Are there any hospital palliative care programs that have developed a palliative care resource nurse program for their hospital? We would like to develop a program whereby nurses educated on palliative and EOL issues would serve as a resource person and mentor to other nurses on their unit.
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+ Re:Palliative Care Resource Nurses (by PCoyne on 04/29/2009)

We actively in-service all units and disciplines in our institution regarding the role of palliative care. We conduct at least 2 ELNEC courses annually to help increase awareness; these also all in increase our consults. Finally we offer all staff the ability to shadow us for a day or a few hours to gain greater insight as to what we palliative care do. Patrick MSN, APRN, Clinical Director VCU/Massey’s Thomas Palliative Care Services.
+ Re:Palliative Care Resource Nurses (by CyndiCramer on 06/30/2009)
We have a large PCRN/PCRP group at Tampa General Hospital in Florda (PCRP=Palliative Care Resource Professional--for non-nurses)
They go through an enhanced version of the ELNEC Train the Trainer Course and then are resources to their co-workers and patients.
We do the training at least twice a year plus the diff. ELNEC specialty courses.
They have a committee that does a lot of outreach, a newsletter, e-lists, etc.
They need to renew every 4 years.

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