Abstract
This article reviews the major indicators of the growth in nurse-midwifery practice and education over the past 10 years. The major issues the profession has addressed are identified, as well as future challenges and opportunities. These challenges and opportunities are identified within the major dimensions of nurse-midwifery, that is, in practice, education, research, and within the public sector. The two major issues facing nurse-midwives are legislative initiatives related to the practice of nurse-midwives, such as reimbursement, and the mixed societal image of midwifery as a contemporary, cost-effective practice versus a peripheral activity by “old fashioned,” informally educated individuals. The professional organization of nurse-midwives, the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), is addressing these issues through interdisciplinary and interorganizational legislative and marketing initiatives.Nurs Outlook 2001;49:213-6.
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