Midwife vs. NNP

I mean all infants and I realize NNPs work more with critically ill infants more than the well ones. If I wanted to work with just well Infants I wouldn't be considering becoming an NNP. I get there's a difference between delivering healthy babies and Taking care of ill premature babies with complications and I know midwives do way more than just deliver babies and there can still be complications in the delivery room. I really just want to know your guys thought on pros and cons of each one really.

Okay then.

How can we speak to pros and cons without knowing anything about you or your experience or preferences? Both roles involve babies. One involves adult females as well. One is more in line with the medical model of care and number-crunching instead of spending a lot of time at the bedside. Both involve advanced education which, as I've said, you may find you have no interest in once you've actually experienced what it's like to work as a nurse. My advice to you still stands, which is to take it a day at a time. You may get halfway through school and discover a completely unexpected passion for psych or something. You're really putting the cart before the horse here.

One thing to consider is job availability. Here in the US, at least in the part of California I live in, there are many more positions for CNM's than NNP's. So you might want to think about areas that you would like to live in, or are willing to live in and which type of work would be more likely available for you to get a job in.

One thing to consider is job availability. Here in the US, at least in the part of California I live in, there are many more positions for CNM's than NNP's. So you might want to think about areas that you would like to live in, or are willing to live in and which type of work would be more likely available for you to get a job in.

That's interesting because there is a shortage of NNPs and many places can't get enough of them due to the aging NNP workforce and resident hours being cut in NICUs. OP I would say that you will need to be able to live in or commute to a city but you should have no problems getting a NNP job. You may not get your first pick of cities, but with experience you shouldn't have too much problem...

I'll second this. I thought at first that jobs were limited but after searching and keeping track, I've learned a couple things. I was wrong. There are plenty of jobs for all of us in school now. There are a limited number of schools who are graduating very few of us each year.

NNP jobs are mostly clustered in and around midsized cities and larger. Any posting often represents more than one opening. They are not getting filled quickly. The postings stay open for months and sometimes over a year. If you are willing to move, there's no reason why you won't come out of school with a higher salary for NPs (psych still seems to be making a little more), loan repayment (if your hospital didn't recruit you with a scholarship), relocation, and bonuses.