Safeguarding modern midwifery
Uniting clinical expertise and legal perspective to reveal how midwifery is interpreted—and often misinterpreted—across courts and hospitals.
Martha has led CNM practice across private, Indian Health Service, hospitalist, and critical access settings while litigating personal injury and professional malpractice cases.
Today she researches verdict trends, policy shifts, and licensure actions from the Rocky Mountains—equipping midwives, patients, and counsel with grounded legal insight.
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Dual license perspective
Decades of private, IHS, hospitalist, and critical access CNM practice pair with JD work representing both plaintiffs and defendants in professional malpractice.
Where I've practiced
Licensed across Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, New Mexico, California, and beyond—spanning CNM hospitalist teams, Indian Health Service care, and cardiology/critical care nursing roots in Vermont and Maine.
Today I research verdicts, legal seminars, and policy shifts from the Rocky Mountains.
What Martha hopes readers gain
Articles
Legal insight, real-world lessons, and grounded guidance for everyone involved in CNM/CM practice.
Models of care define how health care services are delivered and the underlying philosophies which dictate how these services are provided. Nurse-Midwifery and medical models of care are based on each profession’s perspective and training in pregnancy and birth.
Consumers and attorneys need to understand differences between midwives and the unique aspects of each practice. For instance, a CPM or a Lay midwife will be judged by a different standard of care than CNMs or CMs.
As defined by the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), midwifery as practiced by CNMs and Certified Midwives (CMs) encompasses a full range of primary health care services for women from adolescence to menopause.
When any of us embark on a career, especially as healthcare professionals, we do not expect to spend time in a courtroom, someday, accused of negligence and forced to defend the care we have provided.
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