Toolkit for  Nurturing Excellence at End-of-Life Transition is an innovative, easy-to-access, teacher/learner-friendly package of electronic tools for palliative care education. 

TNEEL includes topics such as:

•  Comfort goals and preferences
•  Assessment and management of pain and other symptoms
•  Signs and symptoms of approaching death
•  Decision-making at the end of life
•  Communications and relationships supporting patient and family-centered care at the end-of-life transition
•  Grief, loss, and bereavement
•  Hope and well being
•  Complementary comfort therapies
•  Spiritual and psychosocial needs
•  mpact of dying (epidemiology, economics, service delivery systems, and resource utilization at end of life)
•  Cultural, ethical, legal and quality of life concerns at this life-stage 


TNEEL content is presented in six modules (comfort, connections, ethics, grief, well being, impact) and addresses the AACN's "Competencies Necessary for Nurses to Provide High-Quality Care to Patients and Families During the Transition at the End of Life." Core concepts are threaded throughout the TNEEL content, including individual and cultural diversity, life span, family-centered care, collaboration, interdisciplinary care, setting of care, system of care, values and attitudes.

For more information, please go to the TNEEL Web site, http://www.tneel.uic.edu/tneel.asp