Nurse Midwifery/Frontier Nursing

shelley · Jun 4, 2002

I am a student with this program and love it. I am in the level 2 section as described by your posting. I am getting a great education. It is what you put into it. I have been a L&D RN for a long time in both tertiary level care and now with the Indian Health Service in a rural facility. I am having a ball but working very hard toward the coveted CNM.

NurseAngie · Jun 17, 2002

Hi,

I'm happy to hear that you like the program! I am pretty sure that's the one I will also choose when the time comes. (I also like Vanderbilt and U of Ky.) Post back often and let us know how you are doing! I'd love to hear of your experiences in Labor & Delivery, too. Take care and best of luck in the midwife program!

Happy Nursing~Angie

elleRN · Sep 23, 2002

thank you so much for the information! I am very interested in the type of program you described as I really don't want to move out of NYC. I will be looking into the school!! it is so nice to hear that it is recommended!

Glad2behere · Sep 23, 2002

Have any of you seen a male midwife? I am just curious, never have done the L&D but I always thought midwifery as one of those areas I always would have liked to do. Yes, you can make the assumption the last experience I had in L&D was a like 25 years ago!

fergus51 · Sep 23, 2002

There is a male midwife who frequents this board on occasion,. I think his name is Jared.

imenid37 · Sep 27, 2002

just a question. i had thought about midwifery several years ago, but i kind of gave up on it as i have a very busy life right now. last week i took a course called also primarily for family docs and i actually did quite well. it just kind of got me thinking perhaps i may really want to pursue midwifery after all, but in a few years when my kids are out of school and i have paid off some enormous bills that i have right now. i think i would probably go to frontier because of it's flexibility. i am 37 now and will probably be in my mid forties by the time i finish if i start in the next couple of years. what do you think? would i be too old to be hired then? i was just reading about age discrim among np's on another bb. i have been a nurse since 1987 and have 6 years l/d exp. in a rural facility. we do lots of indep. things ve's, ambo transports, and a few deliveries w/o our doc's now and then (no cnm's at my facility). i have also worked mother/ baby and cardiac. how old are most of frontier's students and what kind of positions do they have upon graduation? any input appreciated. thanks! in the meantime, i might go for a ms in nursing education through distance ed. am i having an aerly midlife crisis or what?

fourbirds4me · Dec 19, 2002

I am also very interested in Frontier. Does anyone know how the cllinical part works? There are no midwifes is my area (90-100 miles away).

Thanks

NurseDianne, ADN · Dec 20, 2002

MidWifery has always been my dream career. I've never actaully met one. LOL.. I live in a small town in southern Georgia. Tell me, how would that KY program transfer to a Georgia lic? I will look at the web site, but am interested in emailing w/ a nursemidwife who has time to answer questions.

Thanks

Dianne

mark_LD_RN · Jan 5, 2003

Originally posted by Glad2behere
Have any of you seen a male midwife? I am just curious, never have done the L&D but I always thought midwifery as one of those areas I always would have liked to do. Yes, you can make the assumption the last experience I had in L&D was a like 25 years ago!

there is a male midwife on here and we had one where i work, he recently went back and is now a neonatal nurse practitioner. he found he liked babies much more. I am working on becoming a CNM myself. hope this helps

imenid37 · Jan 7, 2003

there is a male midwife in the harrisburg pa area named george eckenrode. i am not sure where he practices but it is hospital based. there's also a guy associated w/ the baltimore birth center. i think it's great. a lot of young women and men lack a positive male role model in their lives today so i think it's great to be introduced to one during the birth experience. we always say we aren't predjudiced, but i think a lot of women, not pts.-nurses, have trouble w/ men in this field. if they are competent and compassionate, them why shouldn't they have this role? i think a lot women in nursing feel this is our territory. if care is truly family-centred as we say we are men have a valuable place there too.

one of the people that i most admired and influenced me to be a nurse was a male pediatric nurse i met as a teen volunteer. it didn't matter that i was female, i truly admired his humour and caring way. i wanted to be like that, professionally. i am sorry nursing isn't more a unisex profession. i think a lot of men shy away from it and don't take the time to find out what it's all about because it's considered one of the ultimate anti-macho occupations in our culture. sorry to drift so far off topic.