I just had a mini freak-out...
the life I envisioned for myself came to a screeching halt when I realized something.
"If I go to nursing school, does that mean I have to be a CNM!?"
All the more power to CNMs. But, I don't believe healthy women should even be near a hospital. I don't want to a. limit my scope of clients to only those willing to deliver in a hospital and b. I sure as heck don't want to work under an OB. The whole point of doing this was to be my own boss. The deal is, that's usually the requirement of CNMs. And while they are legal in most states vs. other types of midwives, I can still be involved in that process, making a difference, as an L&D nurse, if I so chose. So then I researched and researched and researched some more. I can't be a registered *in that state* nurse and a CPM at the same time. So I do not have to study as a CNM or attend a nurse-midwifery program necessarily. That is cool with me. It might be harder in the long run but this is what I believe in. End freak out.
But then, why the heck am I trying to get into nursing?
I have to have a major, but I'd honestly like to do Anthropology more.
Or business.
But do I want/need a bachelor's AND a master's? Could I just go to Miami and get a 2-year A.S. degree? Hmm. I don't know.
"If I go to nursing school, does that mean I have to be a CNM!?"
All the more power to CNMs. But, I don't believe healthy women should even be near a hospital. I don't want to a. limit my scope of clients to only those willing to deliver in a hospital and b. I sure as heck don't want to work under an OB. The whole point of doing this was to be my own boss. The deal is, that's usually the requirement of CNMs. And while they are legal in most states vs. other types of midwives, I can still be involved in that process, making a difference, as an L&D nurse, if I so chose. So then I researched and researched and researched some more. I can't be a registered *in that state* nurse and a CPM at the same time. So I do not have to study as a CNM or attend a nurse-midwifery program necessarily. That is cool with me. It might be harder in the long run but this is what I believe in. End freak out.
But then, why the heck am I trying to get into nursing?
I have to have a major, but I'd honestly like to do Anthropology more.
Or business.
But do I want/need a bachelor's AND a master's? Could I just go to Miami and get a 2-year A.S. degree? Hmm. I don't know.