Counseling the parents of a critically ill newborn.
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.
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