Reproductive Loss in the Emergency Department: One Nurse’s Story
Why Should Healthcare Professionals Care about Reproductive Grief Care Training?
Thoughts from Dr. Shandeigh “Nikki” Berry, PhD, RN, CNOR, Saint Martin’s University
Emergency Departments
and Hospitals
We're transforming reproductive grief care in hospitals across the country. Join us!
Grief after reproductive loss can be felt for decades. Frontline medical teams can transform how patients process it. We educate EDs/ERs to set a positive healing trajectory for impacted patients. We're training multiple large healthcare systems now. Your facility can adopt a reproductive grief standard of care too! Contact our team for info.
Certifications:
OBs and Clinics
Organization Certification educates your team to offer patients the gold standard of reproductive grief care.
The words and actions of healthcare providers after reproductive loss are remembered forever! Organization certification gives your team the tools to help these patients + self-care for you.
Contact Kathryn Grauerholz for in-person or custom courses or see our brochure or course catalog.
Our Research
We are at the forefront of promoting and creating impartial and impactful research related to reproductive grief.
"Forget Me Not" Pin
Our "Forget Me Not" Pins help you memorialize and show support for patients impacted by reproductive loss.
Wear your Forget Me Not Pin to show your support to those impacted, and to remember their children with them. This is especially important in October, during Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.
Educational Courses
Nationally Accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC), our courses offer protocols and training to better help patients impacted by reproductive loss and grief.
Reproductive Grief Care for Healthcare Professionals
[2 Contact Hours for Nurses]
Live, online course, 2 hours
We hope you can join us for our next session on September 23rd, and October 27 for this foundational course that can help you to bring hope and healing to hurting people impacted by reproductive loss, who may be suffering silently and alone. Please check back soon as we add more sessions in the upcoming months.
Reproductive Grief Care Training for Pregnancy Centers & Clinics
Live, online course 2.5 hours
On October 21st, join us for unique training for pregnancy centers and clinics.
We will not be providing contact hours for Pregnancy Center training for these sessions.
Reproductive Loss 101: Facilitating the Grieving Process
[3CEUs for Licensed Mental Health Professionals Only]
Virtual, on-demand course, 3 hours
See the course schedule for details.
Studies indicate that many of those impacted by reproductive loss silently mourn, without the social support necessary to make sense of their loss. In this course for licensed therapists, social workers, and graduate students, you learn how to identify unresolved grief and facilitate a healthy grieving process. Includes specific tools and skills that you can use to provide peace and comfort.
Life Perspectives is approved by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs.
Grieving Well For Medical Professionals
Virtual, on-demand course, 1 hour
A powerful course that aids us in better assisting the men and women whom we serve by taking a deep dive into grieving and how to do it well. We identify obstacles to grieving, explore grieving styles, and include the importance of our own grief work.
“Research Reveals” is a series of virtual events with researchers who have authored groundbreaking studies related to reproductive loss.
Healing Years of Pain: Prolonged Grief After Pregnancy Loss
Live on August 13th
Healing Years of Pain: Prolonged Grief After Pregnancy Loss – This study examines the long-term emotional impact of pregnancy loss by analyzing anonymous postings on the Life Perspectives’ healing websites MiscarriageHurts.com and AbortionChangesYou.com.
Spiral of Pain: The Powerful Impact of Bad News Delivery After Miscarriage
Virtual, on-demand course, 1 hour -
As part of our “Research Reveals” guest lecture series, Drs. Brann and Bute discuss their groundbreaking research that examines women’s experiences with caregiver communication during and after miscarriage. This event offers ways to discuss miscarriage and other reproductive losses in a way that mitigates, and not exacerbates, pain.
Men and Miscarriage: The Forgotten Half
Virtual, on-demand course: 1 hour -
As part of our “Research Reveals” guest lecture series, Drs. Holman and Horstman examine how men communicate and construct the meaning of the miscarriages in their lives. The results of this study are critical to understanding how words and body language can be used to mitigate, not increase, the pain of miscarriage.
Silenced and Stigmatized: Understanding How Women Feel After Abortion, featuring Dr. Rafferty
Virtual, on-demand course: 1 hour -
As part of our “Research Reveals” guest lecture series, Dr. Rafferty discusses her groundbreaking research examining how women feel after experiencing a medication abortion. Learn how you can help those impacted by abortion through these women’s voices.
Taking care of you: Tackling Burnout, Exhaustion, and Compassion Fatigue
Virtual, on-demand course, 1 hour
Our Director of Healthcare Programs, Kathryn Grauerholz, spent months gathering and summarizing the latest and most impactful research on preventing caregiver burnout, exhaustion, and compassion fatigue. She is joined by the study’s editor, Dr. Elvira Parravicini, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at CUMC, Director, Neonatal Comfort Care Program, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology and by Frances T. McCarthy, MS, RNC-NIC, CPLC, Clinical Coordinator, Neonatal Comfort Care Program, NY Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital who contributed to the study.
Invigorating Compassion for Medical Professionals
Virtual, on-demand course, 1 hour
Compassion fatigue and burnout often deprive healthcare professionals of the altruistic motivations and attributes that had initially attracted you to your profession. Aside from the recommendations for a healthier lifestyle, little has been offered to assist you to nurture your empathetic resiliency and enduring passion to help others in need. This course helps you reclaim your compassionate zeal by uncovering factors that can derail the empathetic trajectory and assist in implementing practical applications that are truly beneficial both personally and professionally.
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