title: The Shenandoah University Midwifery Initiative: a model for midwifery education.
abstract: There has been a significant decline in the number of nurse-midwifery education programs in the United States in the past decade. This decline presents a challenge as the profession seeks to respond to the Pew Foundation's call to increase access to midwifery care in the United States. Collaborative arrangements between universities that house nurse-midwifery programs and other universities in the region could be an effective strategy to increase access to nurse-midwifery education, thereby increasing access to nurse-midwifery care.
authors.affiliation: Shenandoah University, 1775 N. Sector Ct., Winchester, VA 22601, USA. jfehr@su.edu
authors.forename: Juliana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Olphen Fehr
mesh_terms: D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008880:Midwifery / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards*; D017145:Models, Educational; D011247:Pregnancy; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014768:Virginia