Cs-035890 Obstetrics Clinical Skills: Perinatal Loss
Type
Credit
Description
This course offers 1.75 Continuing Professional Education credits to nurses. To claim the credits, the course must be completed prior to December 31, 2024. Once your evaluation is complete, log on to CloudCME® from your left SiTEL menu, and toggle to your Transcript to find the credits the next business day.
Accreditation: In support of improving patient care, MedStar Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation: This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.75 ANCC credits. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This is a clinical simulation which involves an unrolling case scenario with the goal of discussing the management and care of patients and their families experiencing perinatal loss.
show lessObjectives
- Articulate strategies for caring, teaching, and helping families cope with perinatal loss.
- Describe normal and complicated perinatal grief, and factors that may modify grief.
- Describe the effect of perinatal loss on mothers and partners.
- Determine the potential effects of perinatal loss on parents during subsequent pregnancies.
- Discuss potential personal feelings the nurse may experience when caring for bereaved families.
- Distinguish between types of perinatal loss and frequency of occurrence.
- Recognize religious and cultural influences on perinatal loss.