Embracing the Power of the Placenta: Adapting Nursing Care to Alternative Uses of the Post Delivery Placenta

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Embracing the Power of the Placenta: Adapting Nursing Care to Alternative Uses of the Post Delivery Placenta

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Gina M. Scott, MSN, RN III, RNC-OB , Labor and Delivery, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE
Valerie Rappa Gray, BSN, RNC-OB , Labor and Delivery, Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE
Kathy Brereton, BSN, RN III, RNC-OB , Labor & Delivery, Christiana Care Health System, New Castle, DE
Pamela Kay Turner, RN II , Labor and Delivery, Christiana Health Care System, Newark, DE

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  • The healthcare team will be able to identify 2 alleged benefits of placentophagy.
  • The healthcare team will be able to describe 2 ways to dispose of the placenta.
  • The healhcare team will be able to explain 2 procedures that need to be completed before allowing the patient to leave the hospital with the placenta.

    • Submission Description:
    Our large, Mid Atlantic hospital has seen an increase in the number of patients who request to take their post delivery placenta home. Staff needs to be educated on the alleged benefits of Placentophagy (ingesting the placenta), the significance behind placental burial, and hospital guidelines on how to package this remarkable organ.

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