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Just thought it would be kind of nice to get a little chat going. I know there are a couple of us who are CNM wannabes buthave worries too. My biggest concern is . Hopefully something will be done soon. I don't mind the schedule.

For me it is a calling. Everything about OB/gyn is fascinating to me. I am also really supportive of the midwifery model of care and its affect on both mother and baby. Countries who use the mw model of care have lower infant mortality rates. Even in the US, where we ranked around 40 last year-- not good, when adjusted for the fact drs had higher risk pts, mw's had lower infant mortality rates in the first year. I don't like the MD care for low risk pgs.

Does anyone know if cnm's every work for the hospital and do shift work?

So what are your worries, hopes and why do you want to be (or are you) a CNM.

rofl Alison! :rotfl: :coollook:

Knew you'd appreciate that one, SBE! I'm telling you, the kid is more informed about birth than many of my former clients!!!!

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Just for info:

ECU told me that classes are 100% online?, you go to Greenville 1-2 days at the beginning of each semester for orientation, and they have clinical sites all over NC (of course) but also in New Mexico, Texas, Tennessee and are trying to set up a site in SC. So if you live near a clinical site its a program to think about.

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Specializes in LTC.

Hello! I thought I would drop in and say hi. I'm very interested in the prospect of becoming a midwife, but that is in the very far future for me.

I think I'm a bit unlike the other posters here because I really haven't had any experience in the area. I'm still in pre-nursing, so no clinical experiences in L&D and I don't have children. It's just something I have felt drawn to for a long time. At first years ago when I brought up the prospect to my mother (I was probably about 16) she just laughed. Now she introduces me to just about anyone who will listen as "This is my daughter Casi, she's going to be a midwife."

I'm curious. I haven't heard of the distence learning option before. How does that work? Where does your hands on experience come from?

Also I wantted to recomend an amazing book Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent, it's the story of a midwife and the heck she went through to become a midwife

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I'm curious. I haven't heard of the distence learning option before. How does that work? Where does your hands on experience come from?

Online course work w/a preceptor you or the school sets up to work with for clinical experience and hopefully it is as local as possible to where you live.

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I'll be glad to talk to any of you about the program at ECU. I just graduated from it and I am taking my boards in exactly one week.

...still tired, still studying, still learning new things every single day...

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I'll be glad to talk to any of you about the program at ECU. I just graduated from it and I am taking my boards in exactly one week.

...still tired, still studying, still learning new things every single day...

Thank you so much for offering info. :)

I sent you a private message w/some questions.

Thanks for you help in advance.

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Aspiring midwife here as well. I've never had a birht with a midwife..but i pretty much forced my OB/GYN into that role with the birht of my 3rd child.

I'm in southarkansas..where epidurals and stirrups are every laboring mother's friend ( or so they are led to believe) We need options and I plan on making those options available!

I'm in my junior year of a BSN program...and I'm looking at FRontier, Emory, or Denver for grad school.

Where are Frontier, Emory, and Denver? Are they online programs?

From southark as well.

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Frontier is in Hyden, KY and distance education http://www.midwives.org

Emory is in Atlanta, GA

Don't know about Denver (maybe CO)?

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I start my BSN program at Mercer University in August. I am very excited. This will be my second degree. I am curious about the ECU online midwife option. Can I do that program in Georgia?

I'll be glad to talk to any of you about the program at ECU. I just graduated from it and I am taking my boards in exactly one week.

...still tired, still studying, still learning new things every single day...

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http://www.ecu.edu is the school site. I know there is a student now from Virginia; most of the students I know were NC students (and from all over the state). We went to the school at the beginning of each semester for orientation. I bet if you ask they will tell you they will work with you.
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I spoke to the Director of the ECU CNM program yesterday and it comes down to classes online, find a proctor for your exams, and they will work w/you on clinicals if you are willing to help set up your own preceptor/clinical site or are willing to travel to an established site. If you are going to set up your own (like w/a CNM in her/his office in your home town) start talking w/them as early as possible and let the school know what you have in the works (b/c they have to get a contract w/the CNM for you to have your hours there).

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Thanks so much for the info!

I spoke to the Director of the ECU CNM program yesterday and it comes down to classes online, find a proctor for your exams, and they will work w/you on clinicals if you are willing to help set up your own preceptor/clinical site or are willing to travel to an established site. If you are going to set up your own (like w/a CNM in her/his office in your home town) start talking w/them as early as possible and let the school know what you have in the works (b/c they have to get a contract w/the CNM for you to have your hours there).
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