The NAFNP Education Committee is proud to present

an All-Member Meeting:

 From  Clinic to Comfort: Integrating Palliative

Care Across the Primary Care Journey

All-Member Meeting

Presented by:

Carrie L Cormack DNP,  CPNP, FAAN

  Tuesday, October 20th, 2026 @ 7 PM EDT

1 hr. CE credit live presentation

(1hr CE for on-demand recording for paid members only.)

 Open to NAFNP members only

 Not a member yet? Claim your free ‘Basic membership’ today!

 Join Dr. Carrie L. Cormack for From Clinic to Comfort: Integrating Palliative Care Across the Primary Care Journey, an engaging session that explores how primary care providers can identify patients who would benefit from palliative care and connect them with the right support at the right time. Drawing on her national leadership in palliative care education and the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC), Dr. Cormack will share practical strategies for symptom management, goals-of-care conversations, and caregiver support. Attendees will leave with actionable tools to integrate palliative care principles into everyday practice and improve outcomes for patients and families.

 Learning Objectives:

 At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Identify at least five practical referral triggers for palliative care in primary care settings.

2. Describe the core palliative care services (symptom management, goals-of-care communication, caregiver support, care coordination) and how they impact patient, caregiver, and system outcomes.

3. Explain what ELNEC is, summarize its curriculum structure, and identify two ways to integrate ELNEC content into NP education and onboarding. 

4. Apply a simple referral workflow and scripting  for introducing palliative care to patients and families in a primary care visit.

Interprofessional Continuing Education - Rush Accreditation 

Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by RUSH University Medical Center and National Association of Family Nurse Practitioners. RUSH University Medical Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 Credit Designation Statements

For Nursing:

RUSH University Medical Center designates this regularly scheduled series for a maximum of 1.00 nursing contact hour(s).

To claim Continuing Education Credit, attendees must:

●Complete the online check in process at rushu.rush.edu/checkin

Disclosure Information

Unapproved Uses of Drugs/Devices: In accordance with requirements of the FDA, the audience is advised that information presented in this continuing medical education activity may contain references to unlabeled or unapproved uses of drugs or devices. Please refer to the FDA approved package insert for each drug/device for full prescribing/utilization information.

It is the policy of the Interprofessional Continuing Education office at RUSH to ensure that its CE activities are independent, free of commercial bias. Therefore, we manage all financial relationships associated with accredited continuing education activities. RUSH asks everyone who has the ability to control or influence the content of an educational activity to disclose information about all of their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is an entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. There is no minimum threshold; individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies. Individuals must disclose regardless of their view of the relevance of relationships to education. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any potential conflicts of interest prior to the planning, implementation, or evaluation of the continuing education activity. If a financial relationship is identified for the person in control of content, conflict mitigation strategies will be used to mitigate the financial relationship before they assume their role.

All other individuals in control of content have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Individuals in control of content for this activity have the following relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose and all financial relationships have been mitigated.

ALL OTHER INDIVIDUALS IN CONTROL OF CONTENT HAVE NO RELEVANT FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH INELIGIBLE COMPANIES.