Communicating with families about post-mortems: practice guidance

Communicating with families about post-mortems: practice guidance

Henderson N

Paediatric Nursing

2006

PedPal Lit; Access to Information Attitude of Health Personnel Attitude to Health Autopsy/; Communication Great Britain Humans Nurse's Role/psychology Parental Consent/; Hospital/standards Pediatric Nursing/organization & administration Practice GuidelinesProfessional-Family Relations Social Support Tissue and Organ Procurement; psychology Parents/education/; psychology Pathology Department; psychology/standards Bereavement Child Clinical Competence

In January 2001 the Chief Medical Officer announced the Public Inquiry (Redfern Report) into post-mortem practice at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool. It was expected that this inquiry report would influence post-mortem practice in general and communication with parents in particular and in May 2003 a code of practice for clinical staff was produced by the Department of Health (DH) (2003a). This article discusses the code of practice Families and Post Mortems and explores the relevance of these recommendations to neonatal and children's nurses.

2006

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