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- Title
A Model for the Dynamics of Bereavement Caregiving.
- Authors
Cholette, Meghan; Gephart, Sheila M.
- Abstract
Each day nurses encounter patients as they both win health victories and endure traumatic losses. When families suffer the loss of a child before delivery or after, nurses, midwives, doulas, and childbirth educators grieve with them. Perinatal nurses focus their attention on those in need, perhaps to the peril of their own health. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the experience(s) of a practicing perinatal nurse to gain an understanding of the nature and meaning of loss and bereavement caring through the eyes of the caregiver. This case study revealed an emergent framework of dynamic bereavement caregiving, including four core stages: Acknowledgement of loss, disconnecting feelings, grieving and healing, and new beginnings.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; BEREAVEMENT; CHILDBIRTH education; INTERVIEWING; MATERNITY nursing; MATHEMATICAL models; CASE studies; NURSE-patient relationships; NURSES' attitudes; PERINATAL death; SOUND recordings; THEORY
- Publication
International Journal of Childbirth Education, 2012, Vol 27, Issue 2, p14
- ISSN
0887-8625
- Publication type
Article