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Training to be a midwife teaches you to address the gynecological needs of women over their lifetime. Find out where you can be trained to be a certified midwife with advice from a certified nurse-midwife in this free video on nursing careers.

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I'm Michelle Collins and I'm a Certified Nurse-Midwife and Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, and I'm here to address the question of preparation for midwifery as a profession. There are several types of midwives; certified midwives and certified nurse midwives differ in that certified nurse midwives are educated in the discipline of nursing and midwifery whereas certified midwives come from health related backgrounds often but not nursing backgrounds. Both certified midwives and certified nurse midwives graduate from accredited educational programs and then sit for the same certified exam. During the basic midwifery education midwives are taught how to address the gynecological needs of women over their lifetime which includes their well woman exams, addressing of any primary care issues that they may have, how to diagnose pregnancy, management of pregnancy including normal and abnormal things that can occur in pregnancy, care of the woman during labor, support during labor, also care of the woman as she is delivering her baby and postpartum care which is the time that occurs after the woman has had her baby. Midwives are also very educated in assisting with the breastfeeding needs of women and their babies. Midwives are also educated in how to address emergency situations that may occur during the care of their patients. Certified nurse midwives are licensed to practice in all 50 states and the district of Columbia. Certified midwives are licensed to practice in three states, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. There are also lay midwives or what some people call granny midwives is another term and these are midwives who have learned their craft from other lay midwives and done an internship with them. They are usually not practicing in hospitals and in some states it is not legal to practice lay midwifery. In other states it is what is considered allegal which means it is neither legal nor illegal it's somewhere in between there. Midwifery practice is regulated at the state level and so each individual state maintains their own set of regulations for the practice of midwifery.

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