Programs to Become a Labor & Delivery Nurse

Vanderbilt University

• Vanderbilt University offers a nurse/midwifery program that trains students to provide preconception consultation, pregnancy and childbirth care, gynecological services and nursing care for perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. This program is available to holders of non-nursing degrees, registered nurses and graduates of master's-degree programs. Depending on the student's previous credentials, this program ranges in length from four to seven semesters of part-time or full-time study. Course topics include advanced nursing practice, health assessment, reproductive anatomy and physiology, pharmacotherapeutics, pathophysiology, antepartal care, neonatal nursing, midwifery theory and practice, health-care systems and the history of midwifery in America.

  Vanderbilt University

  Godchaux Hall 207

  461 21st Ave. South

  Nashville TN 37240

  888-333-9192

  vanderbilt.edu

University of Pennsylvania

• The School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania provides a nurse/midwifery program that placed it second in U.S. News & World Report's 2008 rankings. This program combines core, theoretical and clinical practice coursework. Topics of study include advanced pharmacology, research methods, advanced physiology and pathophysiology, alternative women's health therapies, public health care policy, childbearing and women's health care, fetal evaluation and clinical applications. A dual nurse practitioner in women's health and nurse/midwifery degree program is also available.

  University of Pennsylvania

  418 Curie Blvd.

  Philadelphia PA 19104-4217

  215-898-8281

  upenn.edu

Oregon Health and Science University

• The School of Nursing at Oregon Health and Science University offers a nurse/midwifery program that prepares students to manage all aspects of family planning, pregnancy, birthing and newborns. Students receive 750 hours of hands-on practical experience in a clinical setting that includes 150 outpatient visits and between 30 and 50 births at the university's hospitals. In addition to advanced nursing courses in physiology and pathophysiology, advanced pharmacology and health assessment, this program requires specialized instruction in antepartum and postpartum management, reproductive health care management, reproductive midwifery care and clinical care applications.

  Oregon Health and Science University

  3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Rd.

  Portland OR 97239-3098

  503-494-8311

  ohsu.edu