This 45-minute online course with downloadable handouts and information is available to take at your convenience, and you'll have 2 days to watch it as many times as needed to ensure all staff have viewed.

Course Objectives:

1. Learn about the Parent Bereavement Card and how it works to easily help you identify when bereaved patients arrive for appointments;
2. Improve or implement procedures to reduce parents' anxiety, fear, distress at office visits following a loss;
3. Inform staff about the specific needs and grief processes of bereaved parents;
4. Provide specific sensitivity training;
5. Gain a deeper understanding of the emotional and psychological impacts of perinatal loss
6. Impart deeper empathy for parents with real comments from parents woven throughout the presentation
7. Learn about and discuss disenfranchised grief and how to avoid contributing to it
8. Facilitate exploration and processing of staff and clinicians' own experiences with death and grief