Guiding parents through the death of their infant.
Supporting a family through the impending death of their infant challenges the health care team to create opportunities for the parents to complete the attachment process and begin to grieve. Even in the neonatal intensive-care unit, the family can be brought together with their child in activities that comfort and console, lay the foundation for positive memories, and initiate healing and closure after the death of the infant. Interventions for grieving parents are described in this article.
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Holden Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48103, USA.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003142:Communication; D003643:Death; D005239:Fear; D005655:Funeral Rites; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008568:Memory; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012944:Social Support; D028761:Withholding Treatment