Perinatal palliative care: End of Life is part of the Neonatalogy terrain

Fran McCarthy, MS, RNC-NIC,CPLC, describes going from a NICU nurse to a perinatal palliative care nurse. She stresses all the ways that palliative care redirects hope and encourages parents to focus on the many beautiful things that can happen before the baby’s death. “I have seen a lifetime of love given to babies sometimes in just a few minutes.”