Operationalizing Neonatal Palliative Care

Caring for seriously ill newborns requires neonatal and palliative care clinicians to have a variety of skill sets. Issue I of this series entitled “Palliative and End of Life Care in the NICU” in Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, focused primarily on the skills that clinicians need related to bioethical principles, moral reasoning, values-based decision-making, and counseling. Seven articles in Issue I explored the ethical underpinn ings for perinatal treatment options, the legal parameters relevant to decision-making prenatally and postnatally, and the communication skills key to navigating goals and values with families and within interdisciplinary clinical teams.
Source: Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine - Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research