“What do I even do as the nurse with this devastated family right now?”

When I was in nursing school, I didn’t receive any formal training in how to sit with deeply grieving patients and families. I remember one brief exercise in empathy during an ethics class, where my classmates and I awkwardly role-played and giggled our way through.

Then I came face to face as the bedside nurse with parents whose children were actually dying, and realized how sorely unprepared I was.

The Grief-Sensitive Healthcare Project gives me SO much hope that training will finally be made broadly available for all of us who need better equipping in how to care for our grieving patients and families, no matter our level of experience.

For ALL healthcare workers at all stages of training:

Please fill out this very short and easy survey to help this Project best meet providers’ needs! Thank you!

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I am writing to invite you to participate in a brief survey of U.S. healthcare workers’ experiences providing care related to grief and bereavement. This study is being conducted by the Grief-Sensitive Healthcare Project (GSHP), a program developed through Yale Child Study Center in collaboration with New York Life Foundation. We are hoping to learn about healthcare professionals’ experiences with grieving individuals and improve our trainings to better meet providers’ needs.

Healthcare providers from all levels of training and experience, settings, and disciplines are welcome to participate. We estimate it will take no more than 10 minutes to complete. Although a record of your individual responses will be maintained by the GSHP, no identifying information will be published or released. 

Please complete the survey by May 15, 2025

https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bNurxk4V0FpZIQC