MSN-Nurse-Midwifery

The Master of Science in Nursing Nurse-Midwifery track prepares the nurse with the necessary skills and knowledge to lead the profession in the promotion of high quality midwifery care; to expand knowledge through research; and to evaluate and revise care through quality assurance. The program can be completed in 24 months full-time with summer courses. A part-time program is available. Cohorts are established in September or January. All core courses are only offered on campus on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Midwifery courses are offered on campus one full intensive week per semester with remainder of courses offered online. Clinical placement is arranged by faculty and will be scheduled at the convenience of the facility hosting the student. For students from Schools of Nursing at Radford University, Old Dominion University, The John Hopkins University, Marshall University, James Madison University, and West Virginia Wesleyan College, please refer to the information for midwifery course completion through the Shenandoah University Midwifery Initiative.

Admission Criteria:

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Degree Requirements:

The degree requirement is 45 semester hours with a grade point average of 3.0 or better. Limit of 2 C’s in core courses. Clinical practicum is approximately 720 clock hours.

Core Courses:

Course	Title	Hrs.
N 506	Applied Data Analysis	3
N 512	Theory & Research I	3
N 521	Theory & Research II	3
N 532	Issues in Health Care	3
N 550	Advanced Pharmacology and Therapeutics	3
N 560	Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology	3
N 580	Advanced Health Promotion Assessment Across the Lifespan	4*
N 590	Research Project	1
	Nursing Elective	3

* denotes clinical course 1 credit hour = 4 clock hours

Specialty Courses:

Minimum grade of B required in all specialty courses.

Course	Title	Hrs.
NM 610	Primary Care of Women	2(1)*
NM 620	Comprehensive Antepartal Care	2(1)*
NM 630	Midwifery practicum	3*
NM 640	Comprehensive Perinatal Care	2(1)*
NM 650	Integrated Midwifery Practicum	6*
NM 660	Advanced Nurse Midwifery Role Development	1

* denotes clinical course 1 credit hour = 4 clock hours

* credits in parenthesis are clinical credits

** Because of the nature of midwifery clinicals (delivery of babies), the clinical-clock hours are secondary to “numbers of experiences.”  The students must have an adequate number of experiences to substantiate basic competency in the midwifery skills.  This competency is determined by the clinical and didactic faculty using a clinical evaluation tool based on ACNM Core Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice. (Credit hours in parenthesis are clinical credit hours).

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