Nurses’ Attitude Toward Nursing Behaviors Which Facilitate the Grief Work of Parents With Premature Neonates

Abstract

Background: The parental grief responses related to the birth of a premature neonate may intensify with hospitalization of the child in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Therefore, it is necessary that health care providers particularly nurses who are mostly in direct contact with the parents provide them with enough support to go through the process of grief.