Environment Of Midwifery

  Years ago, I worked in a hospital-owned and administrated Certified Nurse-Midwifery group. Practice meetings occurred, periodically, to discuss administrative concerns and other pertinent issues regarding patient care in our clinic.  One particular meeting was assembled to meet and welcome a new hospital CEO who was making rounds on the various clinics and departments.  Executives had a tendency to come and go in this hospital so these meetings were not a new experience for our group.  I have no clear memory of other meetings that I attended, but this one stands out.

Nurse-Midwifery was introduced to the United States from England in 1926 in response to a need for maternity services in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky.

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.