First patient death, what care do you provide?

[Hockeynursing]

I just recently had my first patient death which was expected and RN to pronounce. I had never had a death throughout nursing school as I had done most of my preceptorships on pediatrics and maternity. I felt quite lost and overwhelmed with the paperwork. Thankfully another RN was able to help me. This was a patient I took on at 4 AM when another nurse went home. I feel as though my care for this wonderful patient after she passed was not great. I was so rushed and wished I could have spent more time washing the patient. The nurse who was working with me and helping me said there was no reason to wash the body so we took it to morgue (after alerting appropriate people) . I'm curious to what your process is after someone passes? (Provides it was an expected death)

[BSN16]

Contact the state donor network, remove all line drains and tubes. We generally leave central lines for the embalming process though. We will generally clean the patient if they've had a BM, but we dont generally wash the patient.

[Pangea Reunited, ASN, RN]

I've never washed, either ....only made sure the patient was presentable to family.

[NurseGirl525, ASN, RN]

I've always washed. There's always some kind of fluid coming out for me. I've never had a clean death.