OB-GYN-L Messages for February, 2006: Re: 2/06 ACOG Statement on "Lay" Midwifery

Grace

I am not dissing RN's or CPM's at all. I could not do a nurses job now, I can't even figure out their machines! I just think I could have avoided all the geri and peds and sick people and spent more time on endo and embryology. And I seriously considered taking the NARM exam, and when I looked at it I decided it would take alot more studying than I wanted to do unless there was a payraise involved! I think you should take it when you are fresh out of school and still have all the factoids in your memory banks. And OB nursing is one route to midwifery, I just knew I wanted to be a midwife long before I decided to go to nursing school (so I could actually make a living at it). I waited for years for SMS to open, and finally could not wait any longer!

When I see my posts, I don't see loads of code - how is it coming through?

Fran Wilson, CNM
Kennewick, WA

From: Grace Loehr <divinegracie@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net
To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
Subject: Re: 2/06 ACOG Statement on "Lay" Midwifery - Long response
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:18:22 -0600
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

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