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Re: 2/06 ACOG Statement on "Lay" Midwifery - Long responseFrom: Grace Loehr (divinegracie@earthlink.net)Wed Feb 22 18:17:27 2006
Fran, I had trouble reading your post due to loads of code, but from what I could read, I agree with you 100%. Get rid of the association with nursing, merge MANA and ACNM, have one profession of Midwifery in the US as there is in the UK and elsewhere in the world. One standardized exam, certification, &c. Have schools of midwifery independent from nursing schools. (That said, I will defend my experience as an OB nurse to the death. I spent years of my life and given parts of my soul to this job and will not have it devalued. It has given me many skills that will transfer to midwifery practice.) I decided I want to try to take the CPM exam around when I take the ACNM boards to get around all these CPM/CNM contradictions. I think there's an out of hospital birth experience needed to satisfy the clinical component, so I'll look for that in the next two years. So if you dis CPMs you'll be dissing me, &c. Get rid of the C"N"M and C"P"M for your exact reasons ... why not just RM like in the UK, Registered Midwife? In the short term, why are so many midwife practices closing in the US? I just heard from a midwife on another list that they're being forced to close all over southern California. What's up with that? Grace From: "fran wilson" <530rose@msn.com> To: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net, ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net Subject: Re: 2/06 ACOG Statement on "Lay" Midwifery - Long response "To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable." -- Raymond Williams
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