Midwifery is a career that allows you to use your head, your hands, and your heart. Overall it is a very rewarding career choice. Working as a midwife requires resourcefulness and adaptability. Working with women and their families during the childbearing year offers much satisfaction as well as challenges.
Caring for women during labor and birth is a centrepiece of the professional experience of many certified nurse-midwives and certified midwives. There are, however, a variety of career options for midwives including clinical practice, education, administration or research to involvement in policy and legislative affairs.
Many midwifes are Advanced Practice Nurses who provide counselling and care during preconception, pregnancy, childbirth, and the post-partum period. Midwives work in all health care settings; for example in the maternity unit of a large general hospital, in smaller stand-alone maternity units, in private maternity hospitals, in group practice, at birth centres, with general practitioners and in the community.
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