ELNEC Geriatric Module 2: Pain Assessment & Management

Course overview

As a healthcare professional, you will work collaboratively with the older adult, their family, and your interdisciplinary colleagues toward the best use of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions to manage the older adults pain. In this course, you will learn the basic principles of pain assessment and management in the older adult with a focus on pain in palliative care and at the end of life. The goal of this course is to provide nurses with knowledge of pain assessment and management in palliative care for older adults.