Title

Perinatal Palliative Care: Integration in a United States Nurse Midwifery Education Program

Authors

Jenna A. LoGiudice, Fairfield UniversityFollow
Eileen R. O'Shea, Fairfield UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Article Version

Post-print

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

Midwifery students with perinatal palliative care education develop a skillset to provide holistic midwifery care to women and families who are experiencing stillbirth or life-limiting fetal diagnoses. This paper presents a model of perinatal palliative care in a United States midwifery education program. By utilizing evidence based practices and national programs, perinatal palliative care can be threaded through midwifery curricula to achieve international standards of practice and competencies. Most importantly, enhancing perinatal palliative care education will better prepare future midwives for when a birth outcome is not what was expected at the outset of a pregnancy.

Comments

Copyright 2017 Elsevier for Churchill Livingstone

The author post-print has been archived here with permission from the copyright holder.

Publication Title

Midwifery

Repository Citation

LoGiudice, Jenna A. and O'Shea, Eileen R., "Perinatal Palliative Care: Integration in a United States Nurse Midwifery Education Program" (2017). Nursing and Health Studies Faculty Publications. 113.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/nursing-facultypubs/113

Published Citation

LoGiudice, Jenna A., and Eileen O'Shea. "Perinatal Palliative Care: Integration in a United States Nurse Midwifery Education Program." Midwifery, 58, 117-119.

DOI

10.1016/j.midw.2017.12.024

Peer Reviewed