This article addresses the recent VA mandate that permits full practice authority of three roles of VA advanced practice registered nurses(certified nurse practitioners, certified nurse specialists...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.proxy.library.emory.edu/doi/10.1111/jmwh.12362/full This is a great article that describes a scoring system for scope of practice of certified nurse midwives by state...
This article is a qualitative study on new midwives operating in a still contested environment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22672463 Fenwick, J., Hammond, A., Raymond, J., Smith, R., Gray,...
This article examines the correlation between APRN's and PA"s and their workplace scopes. It discovered that in states with the highest shortage of Primary Care Physicians, APRN's and PA had a wide...
Dawley and Burst provide a detailed outline of the origin of a national organization of midwifery since the 1900s.
http://intqhc.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/4/254.long This article focused on implementing a crew resource management training for their staff of L&D nurses, OB physicians, anesthesia team, midwi...
This study found that when CNMs operated autonomously there were more in a state per 10,000 live births, as well as more midwives present at births. Additionally these states saw lower rates of ces...
