Advanced Clinical Integration Experience for Nurse-Midwifery

5 credits · School of Nursing

The final nurse-midwifery practicum allows the student to practice full scope nurse-midwifery under the supervision of experienced Certified Nurse-Midwife preceptors, managing health care from perimenarche through menopause and newborn health care through the first month of life. Full scope nurse-midwifery care includes the areas of gynecology, preconception, antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, breast-feeding support, and primary care of the pregnant and non-pregnant individual. Students immerse themselves in the clinical practice to which they are assigned and work in collaboration with the client and other health care providers, consulting and referring according to the nurse-midwifery management process. Academic faculty are closely involved with the selection of appropriate clinical sites and ongoing advisement and evaluation of the student during the practicum. A written comprehensive exam is taken after the practicum is completed. By the end of the course, the graduate is prepared to assume the role of the beginning professional nurse-midwife and to sit for the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB) certification examination. The AMCB Philosophy, Code of Ethics, and Core Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice (including the Hallmarks of Midwifery and Midwifery Management Process), and the Standards for Midwifery Practice provide the framework for the course. Prerequisite: 6810, 6821, 6831, 6835, 6836, 6838. Corequisite: 6841. [5]