Are these things a CNM would do?

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Hello everyone

I am currently in nursing school and considering what I would like to do in the future. I'm considering a lot of things and I know things might change as I get farther along In nursing school.

I am very passionate about pregnancy and babies. I believe pregancy and birth should be seen as incredible, not a disease. I believe that women's bodies know what they are doing and that natural childbirth should be encouraged whenever possible. I want to work with pregnant women and newborns, especially low income and young mothers, but I'm not only interested in the pregnancy and delivery part. I would love to get involved with breastfeeding promotion/support and health promotion after the baby is born but I'm not sure if that is something a CNM would be involved with.

Im concerned about the lack of work/family balance because I want children of my own and I don't want a nanny to raise them. Are there any jobs a CNM could do part time for a few years? Also, are CNMs involved with abortions or artificial family planning usually? I'm not willing to participate in or advocate for abortions or artificial family planning.

I am also doing research online and trying to find a midwife to shadow but I would love to get some information from the knowledgeable people on here.

Specializes in OB.

If you view my posts in this thread as attacking, you are extraordinarily sensitive. Stating that straights parents are better inherently means that gay parents are lacking. Lesser. Suboptimal. Please, enlighten me on the social science studies that prove straight couples are the ideal parents.

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Specializes in Telemetry, IMCU.
No I'm not trolling. And as far as I'm aware, it actually violates TOS to call other posters trolls.

This is a legitimate question. Several people on this thread have said there is no place in nursing for someone who thinks like OP does. The logical next step is disallowing people with certain opinions and beliefs from nursing. So are you willing to take your opinion to the next logical step?

Are you even a nurse or someone in the medical field? I'm guessing you're not. Again, there is NO place in nursing where a healthcare worker can place so many moral limitations that may or may not affect patient care. Did you even read the thread? I stated that I am a Christian. I have morals. I have my beliefs, but I would never change my quality of care based on a belief. Their care is based on their needs. Saying that she wouldn't help a non traditional family conceive isn't in her power to decide. Abortion/death is one thing. If you want to get to the nitty gritty, murder is bad. Yet, it's the mother's choice whether she wants to carry it to full term. Who am I to force her to incubate and possibly resent a child she didn't want? Now creation of a life or assisting in conception?

As for the TOS? My guess is you're new here and will need to accept that when we notice a troll, we will call you out. Naive much?

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Specializes in hospice.

I am a CNA with several years experience expecting to start my nursing program in January. That fact has not and will not change my moral convictions, and you can't derisively pin that on youth with me as I'm almost 40. Midwifery is one possible career path I'm considering, hence my interest in the thread, which I have read in its entirety.

You're going to have to take your own advice and accept that there are people who think differently than you, and that they work in nursing. And they will continue to be around. The OP stated that she would care for her patients ethically and with the same quality for everyone, and would refer out for services she feels she can't provide. Yet you're telling her she has no place in nursing.

Again, the traditional side is not the one exhibiting intolerance in this discussion.

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Specializes in Telemetry, IMCU.
I am a CNA with several years experience expecting to start my nursing program in January. That fact has not and will not change my moral convictions, and you can't derisively pin that on youth with me as I'm almost 40. Midwifery is one possible career path I'm considering, hence my interest in the thread, which I have read in its entirety.

You're going to have to take your own advice and accept that there are people who think differently than you, and that they work in nursing. And they will continue to be around. The OP stated that she would care for her patients ethically and with the same quality for everyone, and would refer out for services she feels she can't provide. Yet you're telling her she has no place in nursing.

Again, the traditional side is not the one exhibiting intolerance in this discussion.

Exactly my point. Until you have a feel of being the person in charge of their care and treatment plans and having to put your likes and dislikes aside, you don't have an understanding. Ethics play a major part in nursing.

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Specializes in OB.
there might be situations where I was willing to participate if it was a stable, married couple but that would open a can of worms to where I would have to participate in situations that I was opposed to bringing a child into like single women or lgbt couples.

How is this NOT intolerant? How?

I'm sorry if you're disappointed in people's responses. The OP asked for advice about the real world of midwifery. I'm a practicing midwife and a member of the ACNM. I've posted multiple links to their website, which affirms that they as an organization agree with what I've said. If you or the OP want to become midwives, you probably should know that they would view your opinions as intolerant. Do with that what you will.

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Specializes in hospice.

What's exactly your point? You said I had no experience at all in the medical field. You were wrong.

I have actually found some postable sources for my social science claims, but I'm sure you'll pick them apart or ignore them. Probably better to just end here and hope the intolerance on this thread never becomes institutionalized in educational selection or hiring.

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Specializes in Telemetry, IMCU.
What's exactly your point? You said I had no experience at all in the medical field. You were wrong.

I have actually found some postable sources for my social science claims, but I'm sure you'll pick them apart or ignore them. Probably better to just end here and hope the intolerance on this thread never becomes institutionalized in educational selection or hiring.

You do that. Medical experience as in nursing. You just said you are starting nursing school in January therefore you don't have nursing treatment experience. OP's thinking isn't in tune with what we nurses stand for. Unbiased, quality, and compassionate care.

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Thread closed for review and time-out.

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