Certified Nurse Midwives
- Exam
- Third-party exam
- Education
- Degree
- Experience
- None
- Background check
- Required
The provision of health care and management of women in the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and interconceptual periods and infants up to 6 weeks of age. This care occurs within a health care system which provides for midwifery protocols, medical consultation, co-management or referral and is in accord with the "Standards and Core Competencies of Practice for Licensed Midwives in New Mexico" and the "New Mexico Midwives Association: Practice Guidelines". A Certified Nurse-Midwife will be education in the two disciplines of nursing and midwifery and be certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM).
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- Third-party exam required
- Education
- Degree required
- Continuing education
- Continuing education required
- Certification
- Certification required
- Experience
- No experience
- Background check
- Background check required
- Physical requirement
- No physical requirements
Issuing body
- Department
- New Mexico Department of Health
- Division
- Family Health Bureau
- Board
- Certified Nurse Midwives and Licensed Midwives
- Address
- 2040 South Pacheco Santa Fe, NM 87505
- Phone
- (505) 231-6817
- Agency website
- https://nmhealth.org/about/phd/fhb/mwp/
- Licence page
- https://nmhealth.org/about/phd/fhb/mwp/
- Last updated
- September 5, 2024
Occupations (O*NET)
- Midwife 29-1161.00
- Midwife 29-9021.00
- Midwife 29-9093.00
- Nurse Midwife 29-9099.00
- Midwife 29-9099.01
Source and verification
This record is New Mexico's report to the Analyst Resource Center, published by CareerOneStop (October 2024 export). Everything shown comes only from that report.
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