Ob/gyn nurse practitoner degree option

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I'm really interested in working in the maternity ward when I finish nursing school. It's something I've always wanted to do since I was younger. But I know I want to go to graduate school and specialize in something but I don't know which degree is considered an Ob gyn nurse practitoner. I want to work in all parts of maternity, but I am not sure I want to be a midwife and deliver babies. But when I looked into the women's health nurse practitoner specialty, the job opportunities were mostly for a doctor's office or clinic. So I was just wondering what the best masters degree would be for Ob gyn nursing? Plus I would prefer to work in a hospital setting.

Specializes in labor & delivery.

All of the women's health nurse practitioners I know work in a dr's office. One occasionally makes rounds at the hospital on gyne patients. In our hospital, RN's and OB's are the only ones taking care of patients with an occasional (maybe once a year) nurse midwife caring for a patient. That's just my hospital, though. Things vary place to place and state to state.

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