Palliative Care Curricula
AETC Curricula
Mildmay International, in association with the Regional AIDS Training Network (RATN)
The Mildmay Centre
041 - 200862/5/7 [4 lines]
julia.downing@mildmay.or.ug
www.mildmay.org.uk/IntTrainingOptions.html.
Rehabilitation and Palliative Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS.
New York/Virgin Islands AETC
www.nyviaetc.org. Pain Management in HIV/AIDS is a slide set developed by Gayle Newshan, PhD, ANP. It is available on their website.
Pacific AETC
The UC Davis/Sacremento AETC has slide sets developed on the following topics:
1. Breaking the Barriers to End-of-Life Communication
2. Advance Care Planning
3. Initiating Discussions about End-of-Life Care Decisions
4. End-of-Life Care: Patient/Family/Physician Communications
5. Developing Skills in End-of-Life Decision Making
6. Patients with AIDS: Helpful Hints on Caring for an Unconventional
Patient Population
7. The Science and Art of Palliative Care
8. Overview of Life Changes in Terminal Illness
9. Disenfranchised Grief
10. Palliative Care and HIV/AIDS: Lessons Taught and Learned
Contact Sheila Enders, MSW at srenders@ucdavis.edu or at (916) 734-3365 for use of these slide sets.
Wit Film Project
www.growthhouse.org/witfilmproject/index.html. The "Wit" Film Project is a medical training program that uses the Emmy Award-winning HBO film adaptation of "Wit" to advance education on end-of-life care.
The Wit Film Project website includes information about the film, the curriculum the Wit Film Project developed, and guides for implementing the program.
Websites
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association - www.chpca.net. CHPCA produces the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Palliative Care and HIV/AIDS, available for order on their website.
Center for the Health Professions - www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/cnetwork/resources/curricula/diversity.html. Towards Culturally Competent Care: A Toolbox for Teaching Communication Strategies is a 170-page curriculum organized into 11 sections that focus on teaching clinicians to recognize cultural differences in patient interactions and to use specific communication skills to improve patient care. The curriculum can be adapted for sequential one-hour sessions or for day-long seminars. It is available for order on their website.
Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Beth Israel Medical Center - www.stoppain.org. Clinical Management of Neuropathic Pain: A Problem-Based Interactive Module is a web-based interactive module that provides CME credit on assessing and treating neuropathic pain.
Topics in Pain Management: A Slide Compendium --Downloadable Powerpoint modules with accompanying notes. Topics include:
1. Pathophysiology of Pain
2. Pain Assessment
3. Pain Syndromes
4. Pharmacotherapy of Pain
5. Interventional Approaches to Chronic Pain: Blocks, Stimulators, Pumps
6. Nonpharmacologic Approaches to Pain Management
End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium - ELNEC - www.aacn.nche.edu/elnec/curriculum.htm. The ELNEC 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.
The nine modules are:
Module 1: Nursing Care at End of Life
Module 2: Pain Management
Module 3: Symptom Management
Module 4: Ethical/Legal Issues
Module 5: Cultural Considerations in EOL Care
Module 6: Communication
Module 7: Grief, Loss, and Bereavement
Module 8: Achieving Quality Care at End of Life
Module 9: Preparation and Care for the Time of Death
Multicultural End-of-Life Care - www.access2eolcare.org/modules.html. Developed by Access to End-of-Life Care, this curriculum is only available via training from their organization. Trainings are mostly offered in California. Visit their website for more information.
The seven modules are:
Module 1: A Framework for Multicultural End-of-Life Care
Module 2: Symptom Management from a Multicultural Perspective
Module 3: Bioethics and Multiculturalism at the End of Life
Module 4: Many Roads Home: Honoring Spiritual Diversity in EOL Care
Module 5: Grief and Bereavement in a Multicultural Setting
Module 6: Care for the Caregiving Providers
Module 7: An Organizational Response: Changing Practices and Policies to Meet the Needs of a Diverse Clientele
Standby Guardianship Training Curriculum - ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~aiarc/standby/SGOnPubs.htm. Developed by the ABA Center on Children and the Law, this curriculum is available on the website of the Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center, School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley.
The four modules are:
Module 1: Overview of Permanency Planning
Module 2: Assessing Client Readiness for Permanency Planning
Module 3: Legal Issues
Module 4: Provider Issues
Tool-Kit for Nursing Excellence at End-of-Life Transitions -TNEEL - www.son.washington.edu/departments/bnhs/pain/tneel.asp. The Toolkit for Nursing Excellence at End-of-Life Transitions (TNEEL) is an educational tool designed to teach nursing students how to care for people who are facing the end of life. Topics include symptom and pain management, communication and relationships with patients, families and healthcare team members, grief, loss, bereavement, hope, complementary comfort therapies, spiritual and psychosocial needs, and epidemiology of dying.
TNEEL-NE Version 1.0 is delivered on a CD-ROM and includes audio, video, graphics, PowerPoint presentations, photographs, and animations of individuals and families experiencing end-of-life transitions. Educators in academic and clinical settings can use the CD-ROM's content as-packaged, or they may customize and save much of it for use in their own classrooms.
The online demo version of one section of the curriculum is available at their website; additionally, the entire curriculum can be ordered from them.
