Advanced practioner vs. bedside staff nursing

I have done OB nursing with a ASN degree for 11 years. I know what you mean about the politics and being a little disillusioned.
I am now in school doing a bridge program to become a CNM. It will take a total of 3 years this way. Shorter than getting a BSN and then a MSN.

Anyways, I work with a couple of CNMs and they have to put up with a TON of politics! Right now they are dealing with a OB nurse manager that scrutinizes their every move and some staff nurses who don't like their more natural way of laboring women because it makes for more work for them, etc, etc.
Some days I don't know how they do it and I don't know if I'm really doing the right thing, jumping from the frying pan into the fire!
You really have to have a lot of fortitude and stamina to "fight" the system for what you believe in. So, if you are trying to get away from hospital politics...this may not be the right path.
Just my !

I am looking forward to the transition and the pleasure of caring for (mostly) one woman at a time with less charting, (we still do a ridiculous amount of paper charting) less cleaning and less grunt work in general. Not that I feel I'm above that, I have done it for 12 years. I'm just sick of spending such a large amount of my time cleaning and doing other work that any aide or tech could do just as easily. I want to care for patients!

Good Luck deciding!