Nurse midwife
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Fields of employment | Hospitals |
A nurse midwife is both a
nurse (usually a registered nurse) and a midwife, having completed nursing and midwifery education leading to practice as a nurse midwife and sometimes credentialed in the specialty. Nurse midwives provide care of women across the lifespan, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period, and well woman care and birth control.[1]
Practice
Nurse midwives can function as primary healthcare providers for women and most often provide medical care for relatively healthy women, whose health and births are considered uncomplicated rather than
sexual health
, as they also see women for routine exams and are able to initiate all types of contraception.
Nurse midwives practice in
sexually transmitted diseases and reproductive health. In the United States, less than one percent of nurse midwives are men.[5][6]
See also
- Mary Breckinridge, Founder of Frontier Nursing Service
- Certified Nurse‐Midwife(United States)
- Childbirth
- Doula
- Nurse practitioner
- Obstetrical nursing
References
- ^ "Nurse Midwife". Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- ^ "The Role of a Certified Nurse Midwife". University of Cincinnati Online Master of Science in Nursing. Archived from the original on 2017-05-09. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
- ^ "18.4. Midwife practice guidelines". The Pennsylvania Code. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ "49 Pa. Code § 18.4. Midwife practice guidelines".
- S2CID 214982676.
- ^ "Travel Nurse Company". Friday, 9 April 2021
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