title: The development of the Community-based Nurse-midwifery Education Program: An innovation in distance learning.
abstract: Since the inception of nurse-midwifery education 80 years ago, educators have looked for ways in which to educate enough nurse-midwives. The application of distance learning to nurse-midwifery education expanded opportunities for a greater number of students to have access to an education in nurse midwifery. The story of the Community-based Nurse-midwifery Education Program is presented as an exemplar.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Nurse Midwifery Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Kathryn.Osborne@midwives.org
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Osborne
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stone
authors.forename: Eunice
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ernst
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000266:history; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000193:education* / Q000266:history; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012956:Societies, Nursing / Q000266:history; D014481:United States