Rondinelli June, Long Kathleen, Seelinger Connie, Crawford Cecelia L, Valdez Regina
June Rondinelli, PhD, RN, CNS, is Nurse Scientist, Nursing Research Program, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena. Kathleen Long, MSN, RN, CNS, is Clinical Nurse Specialist, Perinatal Services, Orange County Service Area, Anaheim Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Anaheim. Connie Seelinger, MSN, RN, is Director of Nursing Operations, South Bay Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Harbor City. Cecelia L. Crawford, DNP, RN, is Practice Specialist for Evidence Based Practice and Program Evaluation, Nursing Research Program, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena. Regina Valdez, MA, is Senior Research Analyst, Nursing Research Program, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena.
J Nurses Prof Dev. 2015 May-Jun;31(3):158-63. doi: 10.1097/NND.0000000000000163.
As nurses provide holistic support, their own comfort in caring for parents and families experiencing perinatal loss must be considered. Study results showed that, although education is essential, experience independently predicted comfort in delivering perinatal bereavement care. Evidence from this study promotes the discussion of how nurse educators can structure professional development programs to best transfer the experience and confidence of perinatal nurses who are already comfortable with bereavement care to nurses who are not.
