paper work for fetal demise/neoatal death in delivery room

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Hi

Can anyone tell me who does your paper work for a still born and if the baby is born alive and dies within the time the baby is still in the delivery room. The paper work includes the death certificate.

Also if you have one person does it all if that person is not on who then does it.

thank you

patm :rolleyes:

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Hi

Can anyone tell me who does your paper work for a still born and if the baby is born alive and dies within the time the baby is still in the delivery room. The paper work includes the death certificate.

Also if you have one person does it all if that person is not on who then does it.

thank you

patm :rolleyes:

The nurse assigned to the pt does all related paperwork. Including death certificate and organ donation referral. Also contacts funeral home and or prepares body for pathology. Of course we do a memory box with pictures, footprints, measurements etc....

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In our unit, and I believe the same for LD, the nurse caring for the baby calls mortality services, calls the LifeBanc (all deaths have to be logged even if they aren't eligible), fills out a Resolve Thru Sharing sheet so that those girls are aware of the death and can do a follow up call, we then take pictures, a lock of hair, feet and hand prints. We have some really nice cards that we put all of this in. Mortality services deals with the death certificate, helping the parents find a funeral home if they want one, and asks about an autopsy. We prepare the body to go downstairs..we give the parents the baby's hat, blanket and anything else the baby is is.

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