title: Professional nursing may include teaching childbirth classes.
abstract: In answer to a reader's question, this column advises licensed nurses who are also Lamaze certified childbirth educators that teaching childbirth classes is indeed considered within the scope of the practice of nursing.
authors.affiliation: N ayna  P hilipsen  is a practicing attorney in Baltimore, Maryland, and is associated with the State of Maryland's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She is also a health educator at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore.
authors.forename: N C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Philipsen