Nurse, Midwife
- Exam
- Third-party exam
- Education
- Degree
- Experience
- None
- Background check
- None
Nurse-midwifery means the management of women's health care, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum care for newborns, family planning and bynecological services. No person may practice or attempt to practice nurse-midwifery or use the title or letters Certified Nurse-Midwife or C.N.M., Nurse-Midwife or N.M. or anything else to indicate that he or she is a nurse-midwife unless he or she is licensed by the Board of Nursing.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- Third-party exam required
- Education
- Degree required
- Continuing education
- No continuing education requirement
- Certification
- Certification required
- Experience
- No experience
- Background check
- No criminal record requirements
Issuing body
- Department
- WI Department of Safety and Professional Services
- Division
- Division of Professional Credential Processing
- Address
- 1400 E. Washington Ave. P.O. Box 8935 Madison, WI 53708
- Phone
- (608) 266-2112
- Agency website
- https://dsps.wi.gov/Pages/Professions/Default.aspx
- Last updated
- December 1, 2020
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 Wisconsin's report to the Analyst Resource Center, published by CareerOneStop (October 2024 export). Everything shown comes only from that report.
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