Egeria

I'm a practicing PMHNP, I work mostly with adolescents and young adults who are pretty seriously mentally ill, many of whom are homeless or transient, and many of whom are pregnant or have young children. I became a lactation educator and childbirth educator two years ago because I dealt with many post-partum issues concerning my pysch patients-at least those who managed to keep their children-and I've found that I'm really interested in marrying psych and OB together in a more official, comprehensive manner. So I'm wondering if going for a post-masters CNM would be a viable decision. I'm also hoping there might be someone out there on these boards who is a PMHNP and CNM, that I could speak with, as well. As background, I used to work in maternal/child health research on the public health side of things before becoming a nurse and I have always had a deep passion for maternal/child health in general. I loved my lactation and childbirth educator courses and found the things I was taught there to be very useful in working with my childbearing psych patients. But I'd like to join these two fields formally because even though my psych patients make up a very small percentage of the general population, they use up a lot of resources over the course of their lives. I'd like for psych and OB to be a team to provide both obstetric and psychiatric services to these young women and their babies, very early on, ante-partum/intra-partum and post-partum and I think being trained and having experience in OB would be a requirement on my part to do so. Anyone out here feel the same way? Has anyone out here done something similar? I don't personally know any PMHNP/CNM, but maybe someone else does?

Hey guys, Is it allowed/kosher/alright for me to email a school, where I was accepted into their nursing Phd program for this fall, and inquire as to when they're sending out their financial package information? In the original acceptance email from the university, they simply congratulated me on my acceptance into the program and said they would be sending out "official" information in the next 2-3 weeks, including financial packages. It's been over 3 weeks now, and I have an acceptance deadline FAST approaching for another PhD program at a completely different school, where I was also accepted and already given a funding package. The school I'm waiting to hear from about finances is my preferred program, and I've applied for some pretty comprehensive financial grants/scholarships/funding opportunities with them, which if awarded, would cover my expenses and provide a nice stipend, but I don't know if I've gotten any of them as of yet! I certainly don't want to say yes to my second choice program because I have all their financial information and then find out I got a good package at my first choice and have to beg off of my second. That would be awful! So what do you think? Can I ask my preferred program if that information is coming down the pipeline any time soon? Is that a no-no? Thanks!