Midwife Mgmt Pract II

This course prepares the student to provide comprehensive midwifery care to normal pregnant women. Using the midwifery model of care, the student accesses and integrates several disciplines, including nursing, midwifery, and obstetrics in order to provide comprehensive, evidence-based, culturally competent, and family-centered maternity care. The focus is on pregnancy as a normal process, which is enhanced through midwifery care. Emphasis is placed on empowering women, a strategy that helps reduce health disparities through partnership in antepartum care. The evaluation of normal processes, screening for deviations from the normal, as well as providing anticipatory guidance and emotional support to the mother and family are hallmarks of midwifery care. Clinical practice is in antepartum settings in midwifery practices.