Caring for Donor Families Before, During and After – Second Edition

This updated resource for hospital and organ procurement caregivers goes beyond helping professionals understand the challenges of obtaining consent and invites them to offer compassionate care throughout the family’s experience with the death, including the months and years following.

Designed to help caregivers become sensitive to the unique needs to donor families, this resource includes information on:

• understanding the family’s initial responses
• helping families understand brain death
• facilitating the donation discussion
• assisting families with meaningful leave-taking rituals
• understanding long-term grief responses
• establishing an ongoing family support plan
• and more!