While in the Shenandoah University Midwifery Initiative Program you will take your core graduate courses at your home university in the first year and the midwifery courses with Shenandoah University in the second year. Your classes with Shenandoah will be online but you will come to SU in person for a four day immersion in the Fall semester and Spring semester of the second year. You will also be at your clinical sites, which can be at a birth center, hospital, clinic, homes, military facilities, etc.

View collaborating schools: 

• George Washington University
• James Madison University
• Marshall University
• Old Dominion University
• West Virginia Wesleyan College 

 

Nurse-Midwifery Specialty Courses for Post Graduate Certificate Students

The certificate requirement is 26-31 total credit hours.  Clinical practicum is approximately 720 clock hours.  Since the length and timing of birth is unpredictable, students may require additional hours to gain enough experiences to successfully meet the ANCM Core Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice 2020.  

Prerequisite Courses for Non-NP’s:  Advanced Pathophysiology  3;   Advanced Pharmacology  3;  Advanced Health Assessment  4

Specialty courses for this Certificate begin only in the Fall semester. They must be taken sequentially (see chart below).  (Note: Graduate core courses will be taken at Home University.)

Course	Title	Prerequisite	Credits	Semester
Semester 1
NM 610	Primary Care of Women	Core	2	Fall
NM 620	Antepartum Care	Core	2	Fall
NM 612	Women’s Health	Core	2	Fall
NMLB 624	Midwifery Practicum I (180 clinical hours)	Core	(3)	Fall
Credits for Semester One			6 (3)
Semester 2
NM 640	Comprehensive Perinatal Care	610, 612, 620, 624	3	Spring
NM 641	Perinatal Complications	610, 612, 620, 624	2	Spring
NMLB 630	Midwifery Practicum II (240 clinical hours)	610, 612, 620, 624	(4)	Spring
Credits for Semester Two			5 (4)
Semester 3
NM 660	Advanced Nurse-Midwifery Role Development	640, 641, 630	2	Summer
NM 652	Evidence-Based Practice Project	640, 641, 630	1	Summer
NMLB 651	Integrated Midwifery Internship (300 clinical hours)	640, 641, 630	(5)*	Summer
Credits for Semester Three			3 (5)*
Total Credits in Clinical Cohort			14 (12)
Total Credits in Certificate			14 (12)

** Normally, our clock hour to clinical credit is 4:1, however, in courses with an IP clinical component, # of experiences should be sufficient to meet students’ learning needs. The length & timing of birth is unpredictable, therefore students may require additional hours to gain enough experiences to successfully meet the ACNM Core Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice 2020.

Shenandoah’s Midwifery Initiative is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME), 8403 Colesville Rd., Suite 1230, Silver spring, MD  20910-6374,                Tel. 240-485-1802  acme@acnm.org;  www.midwife.org/acme

 

You have developed a very solid plan.. We understand that students who are concurrently enrolled in both the Shenandoah School of Nursing Post-Graduate Certificate midwifery program and the affiliated universities graduate nursing programs will be awarded the already ACME-accredited Post-Graduate Certificate. We want to congratulate you on your continued creativity in extending the opportunities for nurses to become nurse-midwives through these innovative affiliations with Schools of Nursing. We also congratulate you on your innovative curricular design.”

Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education, 2013