Sufficient Grace Ministries is a community based, non-profit, non-denominational organization, providing global support and resources for over 2000 families enduring pregnancy and infant loss, each year. This includes those who have received a life-limiting diagnosis in pregnancy and those facing an unexpected loss through miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant/toddler death. SGM has been providing resources to families since 2004, hospital staff training since 2006, and in-person support services in multiple hospitals since 2013. Our role is to walk along side doctors, nurses, and other specialties to offer a non-medical layer of parent and family-centered support. Please note, resources and services are always given free of charge to bereaved families.
Virtual Training
In-Person & Virtual Introductory Training
Sufficient Grace Ministries offers a parent-centered, CEU-approved Perinatal and Infant Loss Support Training to all hospital L&D staff. The training describes how to help your patients create memories as they spend time with their baby throughout all gestations of pregnancy and infancy. It will include details on emotional support, remembrance photography services, SGM resources, memory-making items, and long-term SGM support that is available to patients following the birth/loss. The virtual training is completed online over a two week period, to allow for flexible completion. Typically the course takes three hours to complete, which will include instructional videos and a post-test. Also included in the training: additional optional videos available and Q&A Zoom meetings.
Full 40 hr Perinatal & Neonatal Loss Support Training Certification
Along with the introductory training for all of the L&D staff, full Perinatal and Infant Loss Support Training is included for four nurses. This CEU-approved training earns 40 credit hours, 16 of which are facilitator led. 24 are earned through independent study.
In-Person Support
Sufficient Grace Ministries understands that one layer of the training can be done in an instructional setting, such as our in-person and virtual training program, and a second layer that is needed is the in-person demonstration of the bereavement services SGM provides grieving families. This portion of the training is where SGM volunteers will come on a bereavement call and partner with the hospital staff to provide perinatal or infant loss support to your patients. This portion can be completed during both emergent and perinatal hospice support.
PURPOSE and OBJECTIVES
This training equips nurses, chaplains, social workers, physicians, doulas, volunteers, and caregivers to implement a more comprehensive family-centered approach to caring for families facing a perinatal loss or life-limiting diagnosis in pregnancy with the following learner results.
- Recognize the bereaved parent’s perspective and the need for options and resources.
- Describe the caregiver’s responsibility in helping to create a lasting, tangible memory for bereaved parents experiencing perinatal loss.
- Apply companioning methods when forming a comprehensive family-centered perinatal loss support program in the hospital setting and beyond.
- Prepare a collaborative, multi-faceted palliative care team plan for perinatal hospice patients.
The National Association of Catholic Chaplains has approved this training for 2 contact hours.
This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91)
Training Options
Hospital-wide Training for L&D, NICU, PICU, ED, Surgical:
Nurse and providers a can also attend individual training at our annual conference.
Session One Only Live:
Introduction to Perinatal Hospice Protocol and Perinatal & Neonatal Loss Support for Birth Professionals:
9-11:30am (2 contact hours Nurses, Chaplains)
Introduction to Perinatal Hospice Protocol and Perinatal & Neonatal Loss Support for Birth Professionals
Plus one additional Workshop or Webinar Session Totaling 4-6 hours:
9am-2pm (4-6 contact hours Nurses, Chaplains)
One Day Perinatal & Neonatal Loss Support Companion Module (8 nursing contact hours): 9am-6pm
Webinar or Virtual Options:
(1,2, 4, 6, 8, 16 Contact hours. This option can also be combined with the Independent Study to achieve the full 40 hours)
Learners will attend live webinar or recorded presentation if they cannot attend during scheduled time. They will complete an online post-test. Options for completion of training for recorded videos will expire 16 weeks from the start of training date. Learners will be given a link to view videos and take post-test. They will have 2-12 weeks to complete the post-test and online evaluation. Learners will also be offered several options for live Q&A discussion through Zoom, phone, and will have ongoing opportunities to connect through email.
Department-specific virtual or in-person one-hour sessions include:
Introduction to Perinatal & Neonatal Loss Support in the Surgical Unit:
Virtual or in-person – 1 contact hour
Introduction to Pregnancy, Infant, & Child Loss Support in the Emergency Department:
Virtual or in-person – 1 contact hour
Introduction to Infant and Child Loss Support in the PICU:
Virtual or in-person – 1 contact hour
Introduction to Perinatal & Neonatal Loss Support in the L&D or NICU:
Virtual or in-person – 1 contact hour
Final details on pricing and training recommendations will be discussed in the Training Consultation meeting. Schedule an appointment by emailing [email protected].
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