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becoming a mid-wife

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

becoming a midwife

by : juliana flores

Salary?

  • Starting at 79,093
  • Median-89,916
  • Ending-96,418
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Required education

  • Bachelor's Degree in nursing
  • master of science in nurse Licensure and certification
  • Certification through American Midwifery certification board
  • completed 3 year midwifery education program

Environment

  • Hospitals
  • Health maintenance organizations
  • Birthing centers
  • Public health departments
  • Community health centers

environmenT continued

  • Private practice 
  • Sometimes mother's home during home births
  • Mostly In Buildings like said in previous slide

What do midwives do?

  • Provide health care to pregnant women
  • Assist Mothers and new borns
  • Advise women with reproducible health
  • Moniter mothers and fetus's health
  • Complete parental care 

(Continued)

  • Look after pregnant women & baby
  • Labour
  • Birth
  • Still be there for 28 days after birth 

Training

  • Take an approved midwifery degree
  • Nurse can complete midwifery short program
  • Midwifery takes place in hospitals and community setting
  • When finished with program you can apply to posts

Outlook

  • Mostly women who have patience do it
  • There's not a very big market for it
  • Women with more time look into it

College Mayjor

  • Nursing Midwifery
  • Nursing
  • Child Care