Midwifery (MS)

Program Description

Our Mission is to promote midwifery through education, practice, advocacy, and research to improve lives. Midwives have a unique approach to healthcare.  We partner with the individuals we serve to provide empowering reproductive, sexual primary healthcare with a particular focus on childbirth, early parenthood and the newborn.  Students are grounded by the Hallmarks of Midwifery and prepared to assume responsibility and accountability for their practice consistent with the published Core Competencies. The MS in Midwifery is a distance education program with required on-campus intensives. The curriculum can be completed in a year format which accommodates work and life! The final four semesters intensive clinical education. This accredited program leads to eligibility for the American Midwifery Certification Board exam. Graduates are eligible to earn certification as either a Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) or Certified Midwife (CM). Midwives, APNs, PA’s and and other primary health care providers seeking the CM or CNM credential, may be eligible for the Advanced Placement Option. Students entering the MS in Midwifery via the accelerated BSN + MS Midwifery dual admission, enter the MS program with 6 graduate credits earned.

Curriculum: 62 Credits

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  Plan of Study Grid

  First Year
  Pre-Fall		Credits
  MIDW 635	Basic Skills in Health Care	3
  MIDW 636	Environments of Health Care	3
  CM Pathway Only
  	Credits	6
  Fall
  ON-CAMPUS
  MIDW 501	Orientation Residency	1
  ON-LINE
  MIDW 730	Theoretical Foundatns of Midw	3
  MIDW 643	Adv Physiol & Patho Prim Care	4
  	Credits	8
  Spring
  MIDW 660	Clinic Basc Skill for Midw Pra	2
  MIDW 699	Adv. Health Assessment	3
  MIDW 731	Evidence-Based Care:Eval Rsch	3
  	Credits	8
  Summer
  MIDW 645	Reproductive & Sexual Hlthcare	4
  MIDW 638	Advanced Pharmacology I	2.5
  	Credits	6.5
  Second Year
  Fall
  MIDW 610	Antepartum Care	4
  MIDW 612	Postpartum/Newborn Care	2.5
  	Credits	6.5
  Spring
  MIDW 611	Intrapartum Care	4
  MIDW 644	Advanced Pharmacology II	1.5
  MIDW 712	Introduction to Health Policy	3
  	Credits	8.5
  Summer
  ON-CAMPUS
  MIDW 641	Prep for Office Based Pract.	1
  ON-LINE
  MIDW 613	Embryology and Genetics	1
  MIDW 631	Midw Care/AmbulatorySettings I	2
  	Credits	4
  Third Year
  Fall
  MIDW 619	Adv Perinatal Pathophysiology	4
  MIDW 632	MidwCare/AmbulatorySettings II	3
  	Credits	7
  Spring
  ON-CAMPUS
  MIDW 640	Prep for Full Scope Practice	1
  ON-LINE
  MIDW 642	Professional Issues	3
  MIDW 633	Clin.III Full Scop Midw Care I	4
  	Credits	8
  Summer
  MIDW 634	Clin.IV Full Scope Midw Care 2	5
  MIDW 646	Midwifery Nexus Project	1.5
  	Credits	6.5
  	Total Credits	69

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• Pre-fall courses MIDW.635, MIDW.636 and Semester 3 course MIDW.660 are for CM pathway students only.