Presentations & Professional Development

Empty Arms offers tailored, accredited professional development opportunities for doctors, nurses, midwives, and social workers, doulas, and other professionals that seek to increase their skills, language, and general fluency and comfort around perinatal bereavement care.

Our Professional Trainings are taught by Carol McMurrich, Founder, Executive Director, and lead educator. McMurrich’s professional trainings are designed with nurses and OBGYNs on the front lines and are based on her extensive training with the Perinatal Loss and Infant Death Alliance (PLIDA), Share: Pregnancy and Infant Loss, Inc, her own research, and her 15 years of work with hundreds of bereaved families across Western Massachusetts and beyond. Carol has created connections with the top researchers, bereavement care professionals, and specialized medical professionals in the nation, including Cathi Lammert of Share, Rana Limbo of Resolve through Sharing, Dr Brian Carter, Dr Terri Major-Kincade, and more. 

If you're interested in having Carol present at a conference, train a team of nurses or doulas, or conduct hospital training, she offers customizable workshops to meet your needs. To discuss a personalized program, simply fill out the contact form.

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Empty Arms is accredited by ANA Massachusetts and NASWMa** We come with our own contact hours, and you don’t have to do any paperwork to offer your staff continuing education credit.

**Approved by American Nurses Association of Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.  Nurses who attend and participate in the entire course will be awarded the pertaining amount of contact hours.

**Approved by the National Association of Social Workers, Massachusetts chapter. Social workers  who attend and participate in the entire course will be awarded credits through NASWMA.