DESCRIPTION: Prepare nurses to provide quality care for patients with serious or chronic illness by providing education aligned with the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) curriculum recommendations.

LOCATION: Microsoft Teams (Virtual)

COST: Free to all registrants

Registration: We will be sending out the Microsoft Sway (includes Microsoft stream videos and quizzes) to the registrants on a weekly basis until the registration closes on June 30th, 2026 . Since this is an internal course, we need to sign you up so bear with us. You will not be automatically registered when you sign up.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT: 14 contact hours (approximately 1 hour per module) UCHealth is an approved provider of continuing education by the Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Requirements for successful completion of the educational activity: * Required attendance of 100% of activity. * Submission of online evaluation form. Contact hour certificate is available at completion of the online survey. * Completion of posttest/reflection at the end of virtual sessions. The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project is a national and international end-of-life/palliative care educational program administered by City of Hope (COH) designed to enhance palliative care in nursing. Materials are copyrighted by City of Hope and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and are used with permission.

None of the planners for this activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies. There is no commercial support from ineligible organizations/ companies being received for this activity.

The ELNEC Project was originally funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Additional funding has been received from the Cambia, Millbank, Oncology Nursing, Open Society, Aetna, Arch stone, California HealthCare Foundations, National Cancer Institute (NCI), US Cancer Pain Relief Committee and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Further information about ELNEC project can be found at www.aacn.nche.edu/elnec.