nurse-midwife
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nurse-midwives
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Care that can currently be delivered by a nurse-midwife via a brief video call or online questionnaire would revert to a time-consuming and costly series of clinic visits with a physician.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
“It’s kind of a perfect storm of opportunities,” said Eagen-Torkko, longtime nurse-midwife and UW Bothell’s director of nursing.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
For several weeks a year, the work of nurse-midwife Karen Sheffield-Abdullah is really detective work.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2022
The clinic partners with doctors at a nearby hospital and employs a nurse-midwife, Audreanna Lewis-Sholes, who provides routine obstetrics and gynecology care.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
She had a meeting with a Black nurse-midwife who had started her own practice.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2022
In California, this includes licensed nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners and physicians’ assistants with “the proper training,” according to Planned Parenthood.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
Then there are other health professionals including certified nurse-midwives: nurses who complete additional higher education in pregnancy and childbirth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
Johnson notes that 97 percent of certified nurse-midwives, who typically hold master’s degrees, work in hospitals.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2013
They don't go to nursing school, and they don't practice under the supervision of physicians like nurse-midwives do here.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2012
When I was about ready to graduate, a list of Appalachian communities asking for nurse-midwives was posted on the student bulletin board.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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