Are doctors always willing to work with nurse-midwives?
Not all doctors think highly of nurse-midwives, but as the number of certified nurse-midwives increases, this attitude is decreasing. A policy statement issued by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American College of Nurse-Midwives states that the maternity care team should be directed by a qualified ob/gyn with written medical guidelines that define the individual and shared responsibilities of the doctor and nurse-midwife. These procedures include periodic and joint evaluation of services performed, including chart review, case review, patient evaluation, and review of data on the health of babies over time. How do nurse-midwives differ from doctors? Nurse-midwives are trained to treat normal, healthy women, and in that capacity they celebrate the normal. Doctors are trained to handle the emergency situation and because they have spent much more of their training on what to do if something goes wrong, they [may be] more likely to treat a normal pregnancy as if
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