The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project is a national and international education initiative to improve palliative care, in collaboration with City of Hope in Duarte, CA. and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in Washington, DC. The project provides training in palliative care with essential information to nursing students and practicing nurses, including undergraduate and graduate nursing faculty, continuing education providers, staff development educators, specialty nurses in pediatrics, oncology, critical care, geriatrics and advanced practice nurses. ELNEC also welcomes other health care professionals.