Care For Women Throughout Their Lives
Our mission is to prepare clinically, culturally and philosophically competent nurse midwives who provide excellent care to women, newborns, and families and are leaders in their communities. Our graduates are leaders and innovators who provide compassionate, evidence-based, woman-centered care that respects the dignity and wide range of individuals and communities.
- Nurse-Midwives provide primary care for women across the lifespan—from adolescence through menopause.
- Services include reproductive care, gynecology, pregnancy and birth, and postpartum support.
- Career paths include practice in hospitals, birth centers, and outpatient clinics.
- On-campus simulations in semesters 4–6 (5 per semester)
- Clinical experiences begin in semester 3
- Most clinicals take place with faculty preceptors in Salt Lake City area
- Distance students must complete foundational clinicals locally in Utah
- Participate in one of the top 10 programs nationally
- Oldest continually operating Nurse-Midwifery track west of the Mississippi
- Option to add Women’s Health NP track (adds one semester)
- Influence public policy through professional engagement
- Participate in health policy activities locally and globally
- Take courses in evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and systems leadership
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To prepare nurse-midwives who will:
- Integrate evidence-based care, principles and theory underlying advanced nurse midwifery management of the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, gynecologic client, and common primary care problems.
- Incorporate midwifery Core Competencies, as stated by the American College of Nurse Midwives.
- Accurately perform advanced health assessment of women and promote high-level wellness of women across the lifespan, including childbearing.
- Engage in a participative process of culturally sensitive care in which women are empowered to make decisions about their care and assume appropriate self-care activities.
- Apply knowledge of pharmacokinetics and pharmacotherapeutics of common medications used for the appropriate treatment of antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, primary care, and gynecologic clients, by competently prescribing appropriate pharmacologic agents.
- Integrate principles and theory of nurse midwifery management of reproductive, childbearing, and gynecologic needs and complications through appropriate and timely consultation and referral.
- Apply knowledge of screening and diagnostic testing judiciously for appropriate diagnosis and treatment of antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, primary care, and gynecologic healthcare.
- Provide leadership in development of health care policy and quality improvement at the local, state, and national level.
- Contribute to evidence-based practice by implementing clinical research findings and participate in clinical research, when appropriate, to demonstrate improvements in practice and health care outcomes for women and families.
Certification Eligibility
Graduates are prepared to sit for national certification from the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB). Upon successful completion of the exam, candidates are eligible to become certified or licensed to practice.
Program of Study
Graduate Certificates
We offer graduate certificates in:
We offer post-APRN licensure certificates in:
Accreditation
The Certified Nurse-Midwifery track of the DNP Program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME), 8403 Colesville Road, Suite 1230, Silver Spring, MD 20910-6374; 240-485-1803; acme@acnm.org; www.midwife.org/acme. For information about ACME’s accreditation, please contact ACME.