An unintended outcome of the hospital end-of-life consortium was the development of a partnership with a local nursing
school in 2011. These Bachelor of Science in Nursing students started an end-of-life project to support grieving parents
who lost a child in childbirth with the goal of better preparing students to support these parents. As a result, the leadership
group among these nursing students approached the authors of this paper. An end-of-life curriculum, some of which was
based on the ELNEC program, was developed to address these students’ needs. This course has been taught annually in
partnership with the nursing student leadership group to provide nursing students with ongoing education focused on the
end of life. Feedback from these nursing students acknowledges the importance of talking about death, teaching
communication skills, addressing symptom management, and offering an opportunity for students to face their own
mortality in a supportive environment.