C01-a Expert Nursing Care: Perinatal Palliative Care During Labor, Delivery, and the Recovery Period

Purpose:

The behaviors nurses engage in to provide perinatal palliative care (PPC) during the labor, delivery, and recovery (LDR) period are not well documented. The purpose of this study was to describe: the critical behaviors required for expert nursing care of families receiving PPC during LDR; the factors promoting or hindering their ability to do so; and the consequences of achieving or not achieving these behaviours.

Learning Objectives:

Following this session, participants will be able to:

1. Describe how nurses develop expertise in caring for patients and families experiencing perinatal loss in the labor, delivery, and recovery setting.

2. Describe actions and considerations nurses engage in when caring for patients and families experiencing perinatal loss during each of the stages of labor.

3. Identify important outcomes of having achieved expert nursing practice when caring for patients and families experiencing perinatal loss during the labour, delivery, and recovery period.

Presenter:

Chloe Shindruk, RN BN, MN Student, CNS, University of Manitoba / St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

C01-b Perinatal Palliative Care: Collaborative Care Planning for Families Anticipating Perinatal Loss

Purpose:

The purpose of this presentation is to describe the inter-professional, interagency, collaborative care pathway for a woman and her family who continue a pregnancy with a lethal fetal anomaly/life-threatening condition, developed by a Children’s Hospice and a tertiary care maternity centre.

Learning Objectives:

Following this session, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the key elements for perinatal palliative care.

2. Recognize the importance of exploring families’ understanding, wishes and hopes for their infant and family.

3. Engage with a family’s lived experience of the perinatal palliative care planning process through storytelling.

Presenters:

Melanie Basso, RN, BSN, MSN, PNC(C), Senior Practice Leader-Perinatal, BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Kristina Boyer, RN, MScA, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Canuck Place Hospice, Vancouver, BC, Canada