title: Counseling the parents of a critically ill newborn.
abstract: Nurses caring for critically ill infants should be reminded of their responsibilities to the parents of these children. The parents' needs often go either unrecognized or unmet. Nurses in a neonatal intensive care unit should have a working knowledge of their additional responsibility of serving in the role of counselor. Knowing sufficiently what emotional factors should be considered, one can effectively implement this counseling.
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling; D003422:Critical Care; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000451:nursing; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D011247:Pregnancy; D011368:Professional-Family Relations