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Chapter 24 - Midwives and Operative Obstetrics

from Part IV - SPECIAL ISSUES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2010

John Patrick O'Grady
Affiliation:
Tufts University, Massachusetts
Lisa Summers
Affiliation:
Director, Professional Services American College of Nurse Midwifery Silver Spring, Maryland
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This chapter focuses on the practice of midwives with regard to operative obstetrics. The mission of American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), the oldest women's health care organization in the United States, is to promote the health and well-being of women and infants within their families and communities through the development and support of the profession of midwifery as practiced by certified nurse-midwives and certified midwives. The standards direct the midwife to consider relevant statutes and regulations that might constrain the midwife from incorporation of a particular procedure. First assisting is one of the most common expanded practice skills of interest to midwives. Midwives are cautioned to ensure that privileging bodies and insurers understand when a midwife is providing vacuum-assisted birth services. The use of hospitalist physicians is a trend that might influence the profession of midwifery and midwifery practice in the future.
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Operative Obstetrics , pp. 787 - 796
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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