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Nurse Midwife, Doctor of Nursing Practice

University of South Carolina-Columbia

Doctoral DegreeAcademicCIP: 51.3807

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The Nurse Midwifery program prepares registered nurses to provide direct patient management in primary care and hospital. Graduates are employed in a variety of settings including the hospital, community health clinics, birth centers, and women's health care settings. The curriculum prepares students to take the national certification exam from the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB).

Credits

51 credits

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Skills & Competencies

Skills developed through this program

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Skills

Active ListeningSpeakingMonitoringReading ComprehensionCritical ThinkingSocial PerceptivenessActive LearningCoordinationInstructingLearning StrategiesWritingJudgment and Decision Making

Knowledge

Medicine and DentistryPsychologyEnglish LanguageBiologyCustomer and Personal ServiceEducation and Training

Abilities

Written ComprehensionOral ComprehensionOral ExpressionProblem SensitivityDeductive ReasoningWritten ExpressionInductive ReasoningNear VisionSpeech RecognitionSpeech Clarity

Tasks

  • Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
  • Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, ide
  • Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.
  • Evaluate mental health of patients.
  • Screen patients for gynecologic conditions such as infections.
  • Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory and clinic work, assignments, and papers.
  • Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work.
  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

Technology

Medical softwareSpreadsheet softwareOffice suite softwareComputer based training softwareData base user interface and query softwareCalendar and scheduling softwareWord processing softwareInformation retrieval or search software

Tools

Allis clampsBaby scalesBag valve mask BVM resuscitatorsBlood drawing syringesBulb syringesColposcopesCurved forcepsCurved hemostatsCurved needle holdersDigital medical thermometersEpisiotomy scissorsEvacuated blood collection containersFetal doppler unitsFetal heart rate monitorsHypodermic syringesAmbu bagsAnatomical modelsAngioplasty balloon cathetersApnea monitorsArterial blood gas kitsAuto transfusion systemsAutomated external defibrillators AEDAutomated medicine dispensing machinesBed trapezesBilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilatorsBladder ultrasound equipmentBlood glucose monitorsBlood warmersCardiac chairs

Work Values

RelationshipsAchievementIndependenceWorking ConditionsRecognitionSupport
Career Pathways

Occupations this program prepares you for

  • Nurse Midwives29-1161.00
  • Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary25-1072.00
What You'll Learn

Key competencies developed through this program

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Mastery: advanced (Level 4)(based on Doctoral Degree)

  • Midwifery practice standards and clinical protocols — author, implement, and evaluate at an organizational level to elevate safety and quality across a health system's maternal care continuum.
  • Emerging evidence in prenatal, intrapartum, and neonatal care — synthesize and translate into updated institutional guidelines, leading policy adoption across multidisciplinary teams.
  • Strategic family planning program development — design and oversee at scale, integrating service delivery models that address population health needs and health equity goals in a regional or system-wide context.
  • Prescribing authority frameworks and scope-of-practice regulations — interpret, advocate for, and apply strategically to expand nurse midwifery capabilities within legal and institutional structures.
  • Mentorship and clinical supervision of emerging and developing nurse midwives — lead systematically through structured preceptorship programs that build workforce competency across a practice or health system.
  • Quality improvement and patient safety initiatives for maternal-newborn outcomes — lead cross-functional teams in designing, piloting, and measuring evidence-based interventions at the organizational level.
  • Complex ethical, legal, and psychosocial cases in midwifery practice — resolve through principled decision-making frameworks that balance patient autonomy, clinical risk, and institutional accountability.
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration with obstetrics, neonatology, social work, and public health — lead at an executive or program director level to integrate midwifery into comprehensive women's health service lines.
  • Health data analytics and outcome metrics for midwifery-managed patient populations — oversee collection, analysis, and reporting using medical and spreadsheet software to drive strategic care improvements.
  • Workforce development curricula, clinical education programs, and learning strategies for advanced midwifery practice — design and champion across academic-practice partnership settings to shape the next generation of practitioners.

Some details on this page are auto-populated from public workforce data sources: O*NET (opens in new tab), BLS (opens in new tab), College Scorecard (opens in new tab), DOL Training Provider Results (opens in new tab), NSX (opens in new tab). Provided in partnership with LER.me Career Intelligence.

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