can i work in postnatal ward without a midwifery cert??

[khine2mn80]

hi

i heard that in the states they dont allow nurses to work in the postnatal field if they're not specialized in it?? is it true?? im recently working as a srn in one of the postnatal ward in singapore. for us at every shift we'd have a mixture of midwives, midwives rn n general trained srns.

[Noahm]

hi

i heard that in the states they dont allow nurses to work in the postnatal field if they're not specialized in it?? is it true?? im recently working as a srn in one of the postnatal ward in singapore. for us at every shift we'd have a mixture of midwives, midwives rn n general trained srns.

If you are an RN or and LPN or the equivalent I don't see why you could not work in labour and delivery, post-natal, or newborn nursery in the USA? They aren't usually staffed by midwives over there but by registered nurses.

[purplemania, BSN, RN]

Agreed. Our postnatal units are staffed by nurses, not midwifes.

[SmilingBluEyes]

Great Britain does things differently, purple.