Advanced Nursing Research

Certified Nurse-Midwives

A Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) provides many of the same services as a gynecologist and midwife provide. They help women with contraceptive control and gynecologic care and also with family planning. She assists in all stages of the pregnancy cycle. This includes initial consultations as well as prenatal visits and exams and postpartum care for the mother and care of the newborn. She also spends a lot of her time in assisting births, and may either work outside the hospital in women’s homes, or inside the hospital with her own practice, where she is able to make many of the critical care decisions.