title: Core competency-based education, certification, and practice: the nurse-midwifery model.
abstract: It has been more than 70 years since the first nurse-midwives came to practice in the United States, and over 20 years since the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) established nationally recognized standards and core competencies for nurse-midwifery education, certification, and practice. Certified nurse-midwives are licensed in all 50 states and in the District of Columbia (DC) and have prescribing privileges in 45 states plus DC. More recent standard-setting activities include the establishment of a national mechanism for continuing competency assessment; adoption of the bachelor's degree as the minimum academic requirement for certification; development of national standards for education and certification of direct entry midwives; and placement of an 8-year time limit on certificates.
authors.affiliation: American College of Nurse-Midwives, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Kelley
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008008:Licensure, Nursing; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards*; D012579:Schools, Nursing; D014481:United States