A3 - When a Baby Dies: Multidisciplinary Collaborative Care for Women and Families Experiencing an Intrauterine Fetal Demise or Planning to Deliver Via Palliative Care

Title: A3 - When a Baby Dies: Multidisciplinary Collaborative Care for Women and Families Experiencing an Intrauterine Fetal Demise or Planning to Deliver Via Palliative Care

Disciplines: Professional Issues (PI), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  • - Review the definitions and prevalence of perinatal palliative care and bereavement
  • - Learn how to develop an effective partnership between nursing and psychosocial support teams
  • - Explore specific strategies on how to best support the physical and psychosocial needs of pregnant and postpartum women and families coping with the death of their baby

    • Submission Description:
    The session will explore the definition and prevalence of perinatal palliative care and bereavement and demonstrate how a multidisciplinary care team specializing in high risk pregnancies provides support to women and families facing the death of their baby. The presenters will highlight the continuity of care and collaboration between nursing and psychosocial services, both prenatally and throughout the intrapartum and postpartum course, when death is unanticipated as well as expected.
    Monday, June 15, 2015: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
    Grand Ballroom 2 (Long Beach Convention Center)
    Moderator:
    Tina R. Mendiola, MBA, BSN, RN-C
    Presenting Authors:
    Joanna CM Cole, PhD, CD (DONA) , Susan R. Miesnik, RNC-OB, MSN, CRNP and Michelle Olkkola, MSN, RN
    Author (not presenting)s:
    Elizabeth Shaughnessy, MS, CCLS , Julie Moldenhauer, MD and Dave Munson, MD
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