Nurse Midwive Diagnose and coordinate all aspects of the birthing process, either independently or as part of a healthcare team. May provide well-woman gynecological care. Must have specialized, graduate nursing education.
Nurse Midwive is Also Know as
In different settings, Nurse Midwive is titled as
- Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM)
- Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM)
- Nurse Midwife
- Staff Certified Nurse Midwife
- Staff Nurse Midwife
Education and Training of Nurse Midwive
Nurse Midwive is categorized in Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Nurse Midwive
Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.
Education Required for Nurse Midwive
Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
Degrees Related to Nurse Midwive
- Bachelor in Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery
- Associate Degree Courses in Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery
- Masters Degree Courses in Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery
Training Required for Nurse Midwive
Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Nurse Midwive in different industries are
- Midwives
- Nurse Practitioners
- Registered Nurses
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Acute Care Nurses
- Critical Care Nurses
- Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
- Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
- Nurse Anesthetists
- Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Family Medicine Physicians
- Pediatricians, General
- Anesthesiologists
- Paramedics
- General Internal Medicine Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Psychiatrists
- Neurologists
- Hospitalists
What Do Nurse Midwive do?
- Educate patients and family members regarding prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, or interconception care.
- Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
- Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.
- Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
- Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations.
- Consult with or refer patients to appropriate specialists when conditions exceed the scope of practice or expertise.
- Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.
- Document findings of physical examinations.
- Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others.
- Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize patients.
- Manage newborn care during the first weeks of life.
- Provide primary health care, including pregnancy and childbirth, to women.
- Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.
- Prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations.
- Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms.
- Write information in medical records or provide narrative summaries to communicate patient information to other health care providers.
- Conduct clinical research on topics such as maternal or infant health care, contraceptive methods, breastfeeding, and gynecological care.
- Establish practice guidelines for specialty areas such as primary health care of women, care of the childbearing family, and newborn care.
- Read current literature, talk with colleagues, or participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in midwifery.
- Plan, provide, or evaluate educational programs for nursing staff, health care teams, or the community.
- Instruct student nurse midwives, medical students, or residents on the birthing process.
Qualities of Good Nurse Midwive
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
Tools Used by Nurse Midwive
- Allis clamps
- Baby scales
- Bag valve mask BVM resuscitators
- Blood drawing syringes
- Bulb syringes
- Colposcopes
- Curved forceps
- Curved hemostats
- Curved needle holders
- Digital medical thermometers
- Episiotomy scissors
- Evacuated blood collection containers
- Fetal doppler units
- Fetal heart rate monitors
- Hypodermic syringes
- Infant oxygen masks
- Infant warmers
- Intravenous IV administration equipment
- Lancets
- Laptop computers
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Medical measuring tapes
- Medical scales
- Microscope slides
- Mosquito forceps
- Obstetrical forceps
- Oxygen concentrators
- Oxygen delivery masks
- Oxygen flowmeters
- Oxygen nasal cannulae
- Personal computers
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Protective face shields
- Reflex hammers
- Ring forceps
- Specimen collection containers
- Sphygmomanometers
- Straight hemostats
- Straight needle holders
- Suction catheters
- Surgical gloves
- Surgical scissors
- Suturing kits
- Tissue forceps
- Tourniquets
- Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
- Umbilical cord clamps
- Umbilical cord scissors
- Urinary catheters
- Vaginal exam speculas
- Vaginal ultrasound probes
Technology Skills required for Nurse Midwive
- Acrendo Medical Software Ob/Gyn EMR
- Allscripts Professional EHR
- Amkai AmkaiCharts
- Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR
- Cerner Millennium
- ChartWare EMR
- digiChart OB-GYN
- e-MDs software
- eClinicalWorks EHR software
- Epic Systems
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
- Greenway Medical Technologies PrimeSUITE
- Medscribbler Enterprise
- MicroFour PracticeStudio.NET EMR
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- NextGen Healthcare Information Systems EMR
- Practice Partner Total Practice Partner
- Prognosis Innovation Healthcare ChartAccess
- SOAPware EMR
- StatCom Patient Flow Logistics Enterprise Suite
- SynaMed EMR
- Texas Medical Software SpringCharts EMR