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Nurse Midwives Career

For the Nurse Midwives, the average hourly wage is $63.26 and the average annual wage is $131,570. Understand required skills and ability for the career and find right career colleges for it.
Nurse Midwives career

Nurse Midwives

The main tasks and work activities of Nurse Midwives are to provide health and wellness advice to patients, program participants, or caregivers, care for women during pregnancy and childbirth, record patient medical histories, measure the physical or physiological attributes of patients. In general, for the Nurse Midwives, critical Thinking, speaking, active Listening, social Perceptiveness and other 14 skills are required.
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General Job Description and Education/Training Levels for Nurse Midwives

Most of Nurse Midwives occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree). You can check detailed job description, required skiils, activities, and more detailed description at Nurse Midwives tasks, skills, and ability page.
The following graph shows the percentage of earned degrees held by Nurse Midwives occupational group.
Less than a High School Diploma
0.00%
High School Diploma (or the equivalent)
0.00%
Post-Secondary Certificate
2.70%
Some College Courses
0.00%
Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree)
0.00%
Bachelor's Degree and Above
97.30%

Vocational Programs for Nurse Midwives Career

1 vocational program is closely related to the Nurse Midwives occupation - Nurse Midwife, Nursing Midwifery. You can check the schools offering the programs with tuition, length of study, and earning information.
A program that prepares registered nurses to independently deliver babies and treat mothers in the prenatal, delivery, and post-delivery periods. Includes instruction in pre-delivery screening, physician referral, and the care of infants during the delivery and immediate post-delivery phases
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Schools for Nurse Midwives Occupation

No career colleges offer the vocation programs for Nurse Midwives career