Can someone list the things CNM's are NOT allowed to do?
I'm starting to think I should become an OB/GYN :chair: instead because I dont want to be limited in the things I can do and I wanna care for my patient no matter what the risk instead of having to send her to an OB. But medical school is soooo long, I'd be spending my whole life in college! LOL I realize the 2 careers are different, but I dont think I'll ever decide which one I want to do. I do know I'm going to nursing school no matter what. Anyways, I'm scared that as a CNM, when a complication arises that needs an OB, I wont know WHEN and when not to call an OB. Or that it'd be too late and the mother and/or baby dies - I'm not meaning to sound disrespectful to midwives, especially since I used one for the most part of my pregnancy (had to switch to an OB a couple weeks before birth cuz of switch of insurance, and he didnt even make it to the birth, the nurses delivered her, go figure).
Anyways I have no clue what I should do, and I dont see how TIME would make a difference considering I'll just go back and forth between the two until I get my BSN. What I like better about CNM's is that they spend more time getting to know their patients and being with them and labor and that they focus more on the natural side of things (I know that not all do) which is just like me (I love aromatherapy and herbs and homepathy and things like that). I guess I'm scared because the school I was dying to go to closed their program (Boston University, I really want to move up there) and I'm scared that more will close and the CNM numbers will drop and/or no one will want to go to them anymore despite the research that they have better outcomes. And I figure OB/GYNs will always be needed cuz of complications.
SmilingBluEyes
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by the way, Where in OK are you? I used to live in SW OK a while back....