Nurse Midwives
The verified APRN duties include professional nursing care, patient advocacy, family education, and collaboration to improve care delivery, all transferable to civilian nurse-midwifery practice.
How to prepare: Compare your existing graduate education, RN license, national certification, and APRN license with the intended state board's nurse-midwifery requirements and the employer's credentialing criteria to identify any gaps. State requirements vary, but APRN practice generally requires an RN license, an accredited graduate-level program, national certification, and an APRN license.
What the civilian work involves
- Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
- Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
- Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
- eClinicalWorks EHR software
- Epic Systems