Nurse-Midwifery Specialty
The Nurse-Midwifery curriculum is designed to prepare clinically competent nurse-midwives who provide family-centered primary health care to women. Clinical experiences with individuals and groups, incorporated throughout the two years, emphasize use of a management process for providing health care. Relevant research and concepts from nursing, midwifery, medicine, and the sciences are studied to provide a base of theory and rationale for clinical practice and primary care. Students are expected to examine their nurse-midwifery practice critically and to develop beginning skill in the use and evaluation of research methods and statistics. Leadership capabilities are emphasized.
Course and clinical work focus on the independent management of primary care; care for women and newborns during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum periods; and family planning and gynecological care. Students learn collaborative management of the care of women and newborns with complications. Clinical practice takes place within health care systems that provide for medical consultation, collaborative management, and referral and is in accord with the Standards for Nurse-Midwifery Practice of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Electives and independent study offer opportunities for students to pursue individual educational and professional goals. Upon satisfactory completion of the program, the student is eligible to take the Certification Examination of the American College of Nurse-Midwives Certification Council.
The Nurse-Midwifery program of study is fully accredited by the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Division of Accreditation, 8403 Colesville Road, Suite 1550, Silver Spring, md 20910-6374; telephone, 240.485.1800;
Web site, www.acnm.org/.
The course plan for scheduled part-time study can be obtained from the Student Affairs Office.
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Clinical Specialties
Program Descriptions &
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Varney's Midwifery
Celebrating the Contributions of Academic Midwifery
Celebrating the Contributions of Academic Midwifery, a volume of presentations by leading nurse-midwives on the occasion of the retirement of Helen Varney Burst is now available for purchase from the Yale School of Nursing. For more information, click here.
Faculty Spotlight
YSN Midwifery Faculty
"Connectedness is one of the defining concepts of midwifery. Each of us is unique, a complex fabric woven of our past and present. We come together by accident or design; but, we share a common thread of being with women as they move through the stages of their lives. It is fitting the Nurse Midwifery faculty gathered their scraps of material for a new fashioned quilting bee. With affection, each put her touch to a quilted bag created for a nurse-midwifery student. The bag connects each faculty member with the next generation of YSN midwives. As each student joins the sisterhood, she will have her own story and memories and will form and reform her quilt connecting her with the women in her care and the midwives who follow her."
-- Teri Stone-Godena, CNM, MSN
Director, YSNFPG-YNHH Midwifery Practice and Lecturer at YSN
The YSN Midwifery faculty spent many hours together around their sewing machines piecing and designing quilt bags for the classes of 2005 and 2006. Intended to be a portable home to midwifery tools of the trade, each bag is a unique combination of fabrics. The bags were distributed at the first in a series of potluck dinners intended to bring together students in the GEPN year as well as the two specialty years. Fun and good food was had by all.
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