nurse-midwife
noun
nurse-mid·wife
ˈnərs-ˈmid-ˌwīf 
: a registered nurse with additional training as a midwife who delivers infants and provides prenatal and postpartum care, newborn care, and some routine care (such as gynecological exams) of women
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Initially, three teenage boys worked as volunteer transport helpers, caring for FNS’s horses and running errands for the nurse-midwives.
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Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
Care that can currently be delivered by a nurse-midwife via a brief video call or online questionnaire would revert to a time-consuming and costly series of clinic visits with a physician.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
February 5, 2024 For several years, Morgan Nuzzo, a nurse-midwife, and her friend and colleague Diane Horvath, an ob-gyn, talked about opening a clinic that would provide abortions in all trimesters of pregnancy.
—Maggie Shannon, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Bruce saw an obstetrician who used nurse-midwives and all her office visits and labs were covered under Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois.
—Amanda Krupa, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
The 2023 honor goes to Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife and hospital founder who has spent decades combating female circumcision and working to improve women’s health care in East Africa.
—Angela Wang, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2023
Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
Care that can currently be delivered by a nurse-midwife via a brief video call or online questionnaire would revert to a time-consuming and costly series of clinic visits with a physician.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
February 5, 2024 For several years, Morgan Nuzzo, a nurse-midwife, and her friend and colleague Diane Horvath, an ob-gyn, talked about opening a clinic that would provide abortions in all trimesters of pregnancy.
—Maggie Shannon, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Bruce saw an obstetrician who used nurse-midwives and all her office visits and labs were covered under Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois.
—Amanda Krupa, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
The 2023 honor goes to Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife and hospital founder who has spent decades combating female circumcision and working to improve women’s health care in East Africa.
—Angela Wang, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2023
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First Known Use
1952, in the meaning defined above
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nurse-midwife
noun
plural nurse-midwives
: a registered nurse with additional training as a midwife who is certified to deliver infants and provide prenatal and postpartum care, newborn care, and some routine care (as gynecological exams) of women
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