Welcome to RTS Coordinator’s Folio!  We've created this corner on our website just for you because you are important! The work you are doing is crucial to your patients and their families. It’s also important to your department, and to your hospital or clinic. As a healthcare provider, your care makes a difference. Coordinator's Folio provides you with easy access to information, educational and support resources, and professional guidance that will help you carry out your RTS Coordinator responsibilities more competently, more confidently. So please, think of Bereavement Services as a means of networking with other RTS healthcare professionals, including the RTS leaders at our national headquarters, and as a source of pertinent and current information, one-on-one assistance, motivation —and inspiration.

New Brochures

When Your Baby Dies Planning a Special Good-bye                                    A Guide for Parents ... to honor your baby When a baby dies, the thought of planning for a funeral or other memorial service and burial is daunting. Written to help parents whose baby dies during pregnancy or shortly after birth, this pamphlet provides options and suggestions from other bereaved parents for honoring their baby’s brief life. RTS 4127 Click here to receive a 10% discount

Waiting for birth and death:  Knowing your baby will not survive A brochure for parents who choose to continue a pregnancy when they know that their baby has a problem that is incompatible with life. RTS 4128-E RTS 4128-S Click here and receive a 10% discount

                       

Perinatal Bereavement Photography

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (nilmdts)

Bereavement photography represents a highly prized, yet technically challenging, memento for parents of babies who die. In addition to the photos that healthcare professionals take as part of a standard of care for bereaved families, there is a trend toward also using outside photographers. In the Summer 2007 issue of RTS Connection, we highlight innovations in bereavement photography featuring RTS-trained support persons and coordinators.

To read the article click on the RTS Newslette ricon above and sign in using your email address. Visit the nilmdts website at http://nowilaymedowntosleep.org/

A Great Resource For You   ChiPPS The Children's Project on Palliative/Hospice Services (ChiPPS) is a program    of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).     The ChiPPS newsletter, edited by Charles A. Corr, Ph.D., CT, and Christy Torkildson, RN, PHN, MSN, is an excellent publication. Topic: Neonatal Loss http://www.nhpco.org/files/public/ChiPPS/August-2007_enews.htm http://www.nhpco.org/files/public/ChiPPS/August-2007_enews.htm http://www.nhpco.org/files/public/ChiPPS/February-2007_enews.htm