Nurse Midwives: Salary, Job Description, How To Become One, and Quiz

Job description

Nurse Midwives diagnose and coordinate all aspects of the birthing process, either independently or as part of a healthcare team. May provide well-woman gynecological care. Must have specialized, graduate nursing education.

• Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
• Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize patients.
• Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
• Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others.

Salary

Nurse Midwives with little to no experience tend to make between $70100 and $87070 while the more experienced ones can earn over $124240 per year.

One of the easiest ways to increase your salary as a Nurse Midwive is to move to a higher paying state like CA. Right now, the highest paying states for Nurse Midwives are CA, MA, MD, AZ and NJ.

However, a higher pay at CA doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the living expenses at CA might be twice as high than where you are currently at now.

Three other factors that can increase your salary as a Nurse Midwive is the degree you hold, the industry you work in, and lastly the company you work for.

Requirements

We asked other Nurse Midwives what degree they had when they got the job and most of them said they had a Master’s Degree followed by a Post-Master’s Certificate.

Other than that, we also asked them what did they major in and here are the most popular majors that came up.

Pros and Cons

Here are some of the pros and cons of being a Nurse Midwive.

What is the job like

74% of Nurse Midwives said they were satisfied with their job and 82% said they feel like their job is making other people’s lives better.

Caitlin Goodwin MSN, RN, CNM

PeriodJoy

My name is Caitlin Goodwin MSN, RN, CNM, I’m a Board Certified Nurse-Midwife with PeriodJoy. I have been a certified nurse-midwife for more than five years. My Typical Day As a CNM, every day is a little different. Some days are spent in the clinic seeing patients for reproductive healthcare. This ranges from prenatal care … Read More

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Rosemarie Bello Hornak CNM MSN

St Joseph’s Hospital, Paterson New Jersey

I have been a Certified Nurse Midwife for 27 years working in an inner city hospital caring for women throughout the life span. Our program began running a Teen Midwifery Program and has now expanded to women and girls with Gynecological issues and Obstetrics at any age. My Typical Day There are 3 different scenarios: … Read More

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Is this right for me

You can read more about these career personality types here.

People who are suitable for this job tends to like working with, communicating with, and teaching people. They like helping or providing service to others..

They also like working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. They like searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

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