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PROGRAM INFORMATION
How do you become a Certified Nurse-Midwife and still meet your personal and professional obligations? The first step is selecting a nurse midwifery education program that is right for you.
The Master of Science in Nursing - Nurse Midwifery program is designed to help you progress toward your lifelong ambition of becoming a Certified Nurse-Midwife. This leading-edge distance learning graduate program is centered on an evidence-based curriculum that was designed by nationally respected experts in nurse midwifery. As a University of Cincinnati student, you will experience a unique and powerful way to earn your degree that leverages the strengths of traditional programs with new online technologies and time-tested teaching philosophies. The Nurse Midwifery program is accredited by the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM), Division of Accreditation.†
Clinical rotations are integrated to provide you with a variety of experiences in your local community. During your first year in the midwifery program, only one term will include a clinical component. In the second year, clinicals are conducted each term. During the second year of the program, students will be spending up to 30 hours per week in clinical rotations; therefore, most students cease working or work part-time during this period.
Nurse Midwifery Degree Program Objectives
Those who complete the master's component of the graduate program will:
- Integrate theoretical perspectives from nursing science and related sciences as a framework for planning holistic care to enhance, modify or support the health patterns of client systems in various environmental contexts.
- Demonstrate competence in advanced nursing practice with focus on nursing interventions and evaluation of outcomes for defined client systems.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and effective communication skills for advanced nursing practice as part of a multidisciplinary team within various environmental contexts.
- Design programs for defined client systems in health promotion, maintenance, restoration and palliation within a framework of community-focused advanced nursing practice.
- Engage in scholarly inquiry to clarify and refine nursing practice.
- Demonstrate professional roles to make operational standards of care and to influence reasoned change in nursing practice.
- Participate in the political process to influence health and social policy.
- Analyze implications of legal, ethical and financial accountability from the perspective of advanced nursing practice and within various environmental contexts.
- Exhibit a commitment to excellence in nursing practice and to advancement of the discipline of nursing.
† American College of Nurse-Midwives, 8403 Colesville Rd., Suite #1550, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (240) 485-1800 www.acnm.org