Midwifery Initiative
Collaborating to Increase Access to Midwifery Education
The Nurse Midwifery Initiative is a collaborative arrangement between the Shenandoah University Nurse Midwifery program and other schools of nursing
Receive your MSN from a collaborating school that is affiliated with the Nurse-Midwifery education program of Shenandoah University. The MSN is granted by the collaborating school and a Post Graduate Certificate in Midwifery is granted by Shenandoah University Nurse-Midwifery Program.
Through our Midwifery Initiative, we offer options to make curricula more accessible to students living and working in rural areas. Since the nurse-midwifery specialty courses are completed in the second year of study, we allow students from the collaborating universities listed below to take the core credits of their graduate degrees at their home universities in their first year of study and then complete the nurse-midwifery specialty courses at Shenandoah in their second year. Upon completion of the program, students receive their MSN from their home university with a Post Graduate Certificate in Midwifery from Shenandoah.
Didactic and course content focuses on role development and the assessment and management of an individual’s health (antepartal, intrapartal, postpartum, and neonatal periods, as well as primary care) throughout the lifespan.
Cohorts are established annually in the fall. Upon successful completion of the program, students will be eligible to take the national certification examination given by the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB).
This program is offered in a fully online format with weekly synchronous class meetings. The NM certificate degree requirement is 26 total credit hours with 720 clinical hours of clinical practicum.
Students will attend an on-campus intensive in the fall and spring. During this time, students learn to perform skills necessary to practice as a midwife, including water birth, intrapartum emergencies, physiologic birth support, well-women exams, and suturing. Students also learn the nuances of midwifery care, such as listening to clients, providing equitable care, using share-decision making and more.
The Nurse-Midwifery Program at Shenandoah University is fully accredited by the ACNM Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME), 2000 Duke Street, Suite 300 Alexandria, VA 22314; Tel: 703-835-4565, support@theacme.org, theacme.org.Learn more about Nurse-Midwifery at Shenandoah and Nurse-Midwifery Accreditations.
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The Nurse Midwifery Program at Shenandoah University
Shenandoah University offers a variety of options to receive training as a midwife. Learn more about the university’s midwifery initiative and graduate studies in nurse-midwifery from three current students. Nurse-midwives are advanced practice nurses who provide family-centered primary health care to women throughout their reproductive lives, including counseling and care during pre-conception, pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum periods.
Nurse-Midwifery Specialty Courses for Post-Graduate Certificate Students
| NM 610 | Midwives as Primary Care Providers |
| NM 620 | Comprehensive Antepartum Care |
| NM 612 | Gynecologic Health Care |
| NMLB 624 | Midwifery Practicum I (180 clinical hours) |
| NM 640 | Comprehensive Perinatal and Newborn Care |
| NM 641 | Perinatal Complications |
| NMLB 630 | Midwifery Practicum II (240 clinical hours) |
| NM 660 | Advanced Nurse – Midwifery Role Development |
| NM 652 | Evidenced-Based Practice Project |
| NMLB 651 | Midwifery Practicum III (300 clinical hours)* |
Clinical Hours 26
Clinical Hours 720
Shenandoah’s Midwifery Initiative is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME), 2000 Duke Street, Suite 300 Alexandria, VA 22314; Tel. 703-835-4565 support@theacme.org; theacme.org
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
Lana “Amy Giles
Director, Nurse Midwifery
rjx58@su.edu