Nursing Outlook
Volume 54, Issue 1 , Pages 46-52 , January 2006

Graduate nursing education regarding end-of-life care

  • Judith A. Paice, PhD, RN (FAAN)

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Judith A. Paice, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director, Cancer Pain Program, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 676 N. St. Clair Street, Suite 850, Chicago, IL 60611
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  • Betty R. Ferrell, PhD (FAAN)
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  • Rose Virani, RNC, MHA, OCN
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  • Marcia Grant, DNSc (FAAN)
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  • Pam Malloy, RN, MN, OCN
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  • Anne Rhome, MPH, RN

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 The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) was originally supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (Geraldine Bednash, PhD, FAAN, Principal Investigator) and City of Hope National Medical Center (Betty Ferrell, PhD, FAAN, Principal Investigator). The ELNEC-Graduate project was supported by a grant from the National Cancer Institute.

PII: S0029-6554(05)00084-9

doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2005.04.003

Nursing Outlook
Volume 54, Issue 1 , Pages 46-52 , January 2006

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