Nurse Midwife

Disusun oleh: M. Saiqul Ulum

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Section I
Definition
What it is a Nurse
Midwife?
 Nurse Midwife
A nurse-midwife is a licensed healthcare professional who specializes in women’s reproductive
health and childbirth. In addition to attending births, they perform annual exams, give
counseling, and write prescriptions. The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)—a
professional organization representing certified midwives (CMs) and certified nurse-midwives
(CNMs)—reports that 53.3% of CMs/CNMs identify reproductive care as their main
responsibility, while 33.1% report that it’s primary healthcare. While some believe midwives
work typically on home births, 94.9% of all CM/CNM-attended births occurred in hospitals and
only 2.5% in homes.
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Job
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Description
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 What Does a
Nurse-Midwife
Do?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS 2013)
reports that nurse-midwives have a variety of
responsibilities including:

Attending births

Performing gynecological exams

Providing family planning services, prenatal

care, and parent education
Giving primary care, especially for
reproductive health
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How to
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Become One
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 What Does a
Nurse-Midwife
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To become a Nurse-Midwife, you’ll need to meet certain
requirements before enrolling in a master’s degree
program. These often include:

A current and unrestricted RN license

A year or more of work in a 

labor-and-delivery unit as an RN
Satisfactory scores on the Graduate
Record Examination (GRE
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Section IV
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Salary
 Certified Nurse Midwife Salary Per
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midwives will fluctuate. However, according to the Bureau of
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Labor Statistics (BLS), the national average hourly wage for CNMs
lands at $49.23 as of May 2016 (latest available data). Depending
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on factors such as experience, location, and more, CNMs can
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A few of the national top-paying industries for CNMs are as follows:
Outpatient care centers, with an hourly mean wage of $55.32
General medical and surgical hospitals, with an hourly mean wage of
$50.82
Offices of physicians, with an hourly mean wage of $49.69
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