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| urse-midwifery is one
specialty that a registered nurse may choose. |
| These nurses are educated
in midwifery and receive additional training |
| in women's
health care. Nurse-midwives provide care for healthy women |
| before,
during, and after childbirth. During the birthing process, they
spend |
| time with the
mother to provide needed emotional and physical support. They
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| assist in
labor and delivery, help in newborn care, and counsel mothers on
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| infant growth
and future pregnancies. Nurse-midwives are prized members of
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| the
childbirth team because they offer safe, accessible birth care.
This is |
| especially
true in many rural and inner-city areas with few physicians.
Nurse- |
| midwifery has
helped to reduce infant mortality by providing early care to
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| pregnant
women and by increasing the use of prenatal care facilities.
Nurse- |
| midwives also
provide regular gynecological care including annual visits,
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contraception and hormone therapy throughout
the woman's lifespan.
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