Proof of Life: A protocol for pregnant women who experience pre-20-week perinatal loss

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 204-211

  Johnson, Olinda ^a   Langford, Rae W ^b  

^a Lyndon Baines Johnson Hospital   (United States)

^b TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

early perinatal loss; grief; intervention support protocol

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; GRIEF; HUMAN; NEWBORN DEATH; PATIENT CARE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; MEMORY; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMPATHY; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNERAL RITES; GRIEF; HUMANS; MEMORY; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 77953971266     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CNQ.0b013e3181e65f3b     Document Type: Review

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