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Introduction: Perinatal bereavement care is a complex, common issue and neglected, most often in clinical settings. So the nurse must have a thorough understanding and positive attitude towards perinatal bereavement care.

Objectives: It was intended to assess the knowledge & attitude of staff nurses regarding perinatal bereavement care and to correlate knowledge and attitude of staff nurses regarding perinatal bereavement care

Methods and Materials: This exploratory survey study was conducted in selected hospitals of Pune city with 100 staff nurses. The tool used for data collection were1) Self-structured questionnaire, 2) 4 point Likert scale. Sample was chosen using nonprobability sampling techniques. Results: It was found that 51% of staff nurses were RGNM, 24% of them had 6-10 years of total experience. Majority (73%) of them had up to 5 years of experience in maternity unit and 46% of them had knowledge regarding prenatal bereavement care from health professionals/friends/others. Fifty four percent of them had personal experience in prenatal bereavement care. Majority of the staff nurses (77%) had average knowledge and (93%) of them had positive attitude towards prenatal bereavement care. The correlation between knowledge and attitude of staff nurses towards prenatal bereavement care was not significant. Staff nurses who had knowledge from health professionals/friends/others (15.2%) and workshop/seminar (15.3) were found to have significantly higher knowledge scores as compared to other resources. Conclusion: The majority of staff nurses have average knowledge and positive attitude towards perinatal bereavement …