The College’s Nurse-Midwifery program is seeing a lot of growth that will result in a diversification of the nurse-midwifery workforce. The College wants that workforce to be able to practice culturally congruent care for New Mexico’s diverse communities. Birthworkers from Indigenous, Hispanic and Latinx communities of the area will be able to elevate our students’ knowledge, skills and ability to care. The College will embrace the opportunity to support maternal child health, to help support the growing diversity within midwifery’s workforce – all for the sake of maternal child health in New Mexico.
If you or someone you know is interested in becoming a birthworker or are a birthworker interested in mentoring others, please complete this Smartsheet.
Small cohorts – 8:1 student-instructor ratio – and a large supportive alumni community.
We find your clinical placements.
Scholarship and grant dollars are available.
Program focuses on care for rural and underserved populations.
We are part of a large Health Sciences system.
High-tech learning in our Simulation Center.
Contact our Admissions team for information on the program.
“This grant will help nurse-midwives and midwifery educators be more inclusive in our activities to New Mexico’s birthworkers. Birthwork encompasses anyone working with maternal child health, including but not limited to, doulas, lactation consultants, midwives, pre-med students with an interest in obstetrical care and other students who want to become home-visiting, newborn, labor and delivery, and/or postpartum nurses; a very expansive scope that is – in many of this state’s communities influenced by significant and longstanding cultural practices.”
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