Table 1.

Recommendations and suggested resources from NCCP team members to clinicians planning to start a PPC program.

CORE TEAM
Neonatologist, program director	• Create a mission and vision and access it to maintain motivation (14) • Establish collaboration with OB • Look for “champion” professionals interested in collaboration • Work cohesively and regularly with team members to ensure optimal communication • Use professional encounters to teach and role model the tenets of PPC (15, 16) • Establish policy/guidelines for PPC in your institution (12) • Measure and report program outcomes and successes (17–19)
Registered nurse, program coordinator (former NICU RN)	• Identify champion RNs interested in PPC and provide teaching and mentoring • Participate in online and live educational opportunities (15) • Use online and community resources to gather bereavement supplies (20) • Develop a curriculum of Nursing PPC to create a PPC mindset
Program social worker (former PICU SW)	• Document all tasks related to PPC and build a case for SW position with data • Join perinatal hospice (20) network and network with other SWs to gain insights and information (21) • Participate in online and live educational opportunities (15, 22)
IDT TEAM
OB registered nurse	• Develop QI projects to build a case for resources for PPC • Train and mentor OB nurses to create a PPC mindset (23, 24) • Network with OB nurses in other institutions to share ideas and resources for PPC
MFM physician	• Collaborate with the team in pregnancy management to achieve family's expectations (4) • Train OB staff to respect and support the family's goals (25, 26) • Develop research projects to demonstrate the benefits of PPC
NICU speech-language pathologist	• Contact experienced colleagues for advice (27) • Consider training champion NICU RNs to assess feeding needs for a neonate and become familiar with specific feeding equipment • Train all staff to respect and support the family's goals relative to providing nutritive or non-nutritive therapies (28)
NICU child life specialist	• Train other child life specialists to specific interventions in PPC (29) • Consider training “champion” RNs to become familiar with memory making during pregnancy and at birth
NICU psychologist	• Contact in-house psychologists and assess interest in working with bereaved parents • Develop collaboration with team SW • Be intentional about listening to parents and help them navigate their experiences during pregnancy and beyond (30, 31)
NICU chaplain	• Partner with in-house or community faith leaders • Familiarize clinicians with spiritual screening using FICA Spiritual History Tool (32) • Assess patient's spiritual preferences prenatally to prepare for spiritual interventions (33, 34)