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Polly Mazanec

Project Director for ELNEC Undergraduate and ELNEC Graduate Nursing Education and Research Associate Professor at Case Western, ELNEC

Polly Mazanec, PhD, AOCN®, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN is an oncology palliative care advanced practice nurse who has been on the ELNEC Faculty since 2001, teaching palliative care nationally and internationally. She is the project director for ELNEC Undergraduate and ELNEC Graduate nursing education. Dr. Mazanec has had extensive clinical experience in integrating palliative care into out-patient oncology settings and hospice programs and into nursing education. She has published and presented in the areas of palliative care in the oncology setting, cultural considerations at end of life, and caregiving.

Posts by Polly Mazanec

Providing Culturally Sensitive Care to Immigrants Struggling With Serious Illness

3 min read | Posted November 6, 2019

When dealing with serious illness and death, patients who are immigrants to the U.S. may face a multitude of cultural and logistical challenges.