AACN End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Project
The ELNEC project, a partnership of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the Los Angeles based City of Hope Cancer Center, is a comprehensive, national education program to improve end-of-life care by nurses.

American Association of Critical Care Nurses
The association provides and inspires leadership to establish work and care environments that are respectful, healing and humane.

American Medical Association
The AMA is a membership organization of physicians across the United States. It serves as the patient's advocate, sets standards for the profession of medicine, medical education, policy matters, and much more.

American Society of Clinical Oncology
The society's website provides articles about end of life care, palliative medicine and pain control, as well as information for people living with cancer.

Americans for Better Care of the Dying
ABCD is a non-profit coalition of citizens and professionals united to ensure that public policy addresses the needs of individuals and families coping with a fatal illness.

Association of Oncology Social Work
The association focuses on increasing awareness about the social, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of cancer patients.

Cancer Care
A non-profit organization that provides free professional help to people with all cancers through counseling, education, information and referral, and direct financial assistance.

Compassion in Dying
CID assists patients and families in reviewing cases of suspected inadequate treatment of pain.

Grantmakers in Health
The mission of GIH is to increase the capacity of private-sector grantmakers to enhance the health and well being of all people.

Huntsman Cancer Institutue
HCI seeks to understand cancer from its beginnings, to use that knowledge in the creation and improvement of cancer treatments, to relieve the suffering of cancer patients, and to educate the public about cancer risk, prevention, and care.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
The institute is an independent, non-profit organization working to accelerate improvement in health care systems by fostering collaboration, rather than competition, among health care organizations.

kaisernetwork.org
This website, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, provides comprehensive information on major health policy events and provides three daily online health reports, an online library of health policy ads, a national calendar of events, and more.

Medscape Critical Care
This website provides health-related news, abstracts, conference coverage, and more. (Free registration is required.)

National Cancer Institute
The institute, which is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provides news, information on treatments, resources for scientists, and much more.

National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information, for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.