Nurse Midwife?

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Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone!

I just have a simple (or maybe not so simple) question about nurse midwives. I have read up about them on the net about how they are midwives with nursing experience but they all mention a graduate degree.

In my country, you can become a nurse and a midwife without a graduate degree. But would we be considered nurse midwives or nurses/midwives? I'm just curious cause some of my batch mates are considering midwifery after nursing school and want to also work in another country, for example: in the US.

Thank you for any responses and for taking the time to read this.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Moved to nurse registration.

In the US, a CNM - certified nurse midwife are at least graduate degree programs. Some states do have "lay midwives" who are not nurses but that practice is largely falling out of favor.

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