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A BRIEF INTRODUCTION to MIDWIFERY

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Name : Bella Ayu Nurlita Sari
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A Brief Introduction to Midwifery

The term “midwife” literally means “with woman.” Although nurse-

midwives are best known for their work during pregnancy and
specifically labor and delivery, nurse midwives care for women’s health
in a comprehensive way. Certified nurse midwives (CNM) are advanced
practice nurses specializing in prenatal care, labor and delivery,
postpartum care, gynecology, well women’s health care, and family
planning. They work anywhere other advanced practitioners do: in the
hospital, at the clinic, and at home.

In the past, many people thought of midwives as only assisting women in

home births, water births, and labor without anesthesia. Although some
women may choose to deliver their babies in this way, midwives actually
oversee all types of births, including those that are more conventional in
the hospital. Nurse midwives have the credentials and authority to
empower patients, so the kind of care given is according to their
preferences and in their best interest.

Despite common misunderstandings, nurse midwives are qualified to

care for women during various stages of life. Furthermore, as prescribers
and independent providers, they are able to manage all types of
pregnancies, whether straightforward or complicated. Like other
advanced practice nurses, many midwives have years of experiences as 1
registered nurses in labor and delivery and other areas of women’s health.
Many contend that the unique experience of working as a registered
 nurse before advancing is what sets nurse practitioners, including
midwives, apart from their physician counterparts.

Within midwifery, there are stratified scopes of practice and levels of

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education; this is both location and training-dependent. Just like other

advanced practice nurses, midwives work with varying degrees
of independence from physician oversight in an ever-changing climate of
advanced practice patient care. The majority of midwives hold a master’s
or doctorate nursing degree (CNM); there are also certified midwives
(CM) who have passed their advanced practice boards while maintaining
a bachelor-level degree of education. For those who don’t have a
bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate degree can qualify to be a certified
professional midwife (CPM). They are either trained through
apprenticeship and/or formal education, and their scope of practice is
narrower than CNMs.

As standards of health care providers evolve, the accreditation process

for nurse midwives has increasing standards. The good news is that nurse
midwives are learning through rigorous training and experience to
provide high-quality patient care independently. Nurse midwives are
more than the overseers of alternative birthing methods. They are fully
licensed and independent women’s health providers.

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1. Pregnancy 1. Kehamilan
2. PostPastum care 2. Pelayanan kesehatan yang

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dilakukan setelah melahirkan
3. Gynecology 3. Ilmu kebidanan,ilmu penyakit
wanita
4. Patient care 4. Perawatan Pasien
5. Health care 5. Perawatan Kesehatan
6. Pregnancies 6. Kehamilan
7. Nurse Midwives 7. Perawat Bidan
8. Birthing methods 8. Metode melahirkan
9. Health providers 9. Penyedia kesehatan
10. Health labor 10. Labor kesehatan