Maintaining patient dignity and offering support after miscarriage
Hannah Bryant Senior staff nurse, A&E at Worcestershire Royal Hospital
HANNAH BRYANT says that it is nurses’ responsibility to ensure that women experiencing miscarriage are given privacy and treated with dignity while undergoing emergency care
The World Health Organization (2006) defines stillbirth, or fetal death, as death before the complete expulsion or extraction of all the products of conception, irrespective of pregnancy duration.
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doi: 10.7748/en2008.02.15.9.26.c8178
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