ADN Midwife?

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Specializes in Cardiac/Telemetry.

I'm an ADN RN and have been for 3 years. I have been doing critical care since I started and have recently been intrigued in the women's health field; specifically Natural Family Planning, Lactation Consulting, and Midwifery. Can I persure any of these with just my ADN? Thanks in advance for any info/tips!

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

You can become a lactation consultant with just an ADN. Midwifery, however, you would need your Masters degree, unless you wanted to do lay midwifery at home.

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some programs do allow you to do your BSN and then your midwifery degree all together while most schools require you to have your BSN before applying for the midwifery degree.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Frontier Nursing University is one such school - they offer a RN-MSN bridge program. The bridge coursework is VERY challenging, and takes a year, and costs (I think) around $10-12K (but you don't get awarded a BSN when you complete it). You might be better served to find an inexpensive online RN-BSN program, which you can theoretically complete in the same amount of time, for the same or less money. Then you can go into any MSN program for nurse midwifery, including Frontier (which is an excellent school).

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