End-of-life care education in acute and critical care: The California ELNEC project

AACN Advanced Critical Care

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 121-129

  Grant, Marian ^a   Wiencek, Clareen ^b   Virani, Rose ^c   Uman, Gwen ^d   Munevar, Carla ^c   Malloy, Pam ^e   Ferrell, Betty ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b VCUHS   (United States)

^c Division of Nursing Research and Education   (United States)

^d W E Research   (United States)

^e UTHSC   (United States)

^f CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Education; End of life care; Nursing; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; TERMINAL CARE;

CRITICAL CARE; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING STAFF; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84879223562     PISSN: 15597768     EISSN: 15597776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCI.0b013e3182832a94     Document Type: Article

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