03.01 Certified Nurse Midwife

Hey guys, I'm going to take you through the role of a certified nurse midwife. So what this type of nurse does and if you're interested in this, how to go about achieving this. Okay, so first let's look at who they are. So they are practitioners that either work in offices and in the office they would perform just general like women's health, things like pap smears and help with birth control, and they also will help a woman throughout her pregnancy and they will attend the deliveries and be the midwife for that patient. So to become a certified nurse-midwife, there are a few things. If this interests you, you should try to work in labor and delivery obviously because of a lot of your life as a midwife, it's going to be spent on labor and delivery, helping these women have their babies. So you want to get that experience.

It's really important. Plus it also tells you if you like this or not, um, you really need to have about a year of experience before you'll apply to programs. And this experience should be in labor and delivery. So then you're going to apply to some programs. You will attend the program and pass and then you have to sit for boards. So you have to take another board exam and pass that to be a nurse midwife. So just some key points here. When you finish this degree, you will end with an MSN. So you are going to achieve your RN, you're going to go work for a year at least on L&D, and then you're going to attend a school.

And uh, then sit for those boards again. So when you graduate, you will have a masters and that is the minimum now required. You need that experience. Like I said, that one year of experience. You will be working under a doctor's license. So if you're in the office with deliveries a doctor will be over you. There's certain things a nurse midwife can't do, at least in our state, for instance, if there's a third-degree tear, the nurse-midwife cannot repair that, a third or fourth. So a doctor would have to come in and repair that. They also can't perform C-sections. So if the patient is not gonna deliver vaginally or there's an emergency and we need to have a Csection, the doctor is going to be the one to do that. A lot of your job outlook is going to be with pap smears, birth controls, and then care of the patient throughout their pregnancy.All right, guys, I hope that told you a little bit about what a certified nurse-midwife does and how to go about achieving this. If that is what you want. A, we'd love you guys now go out and be your best selves today and as always, happy nursing. Okay.