Starting from the beginning with opening your very own midwifery practice can be overwhelming and daunting. Take things day by day. Make list of things to do: supply ordering, marketing, business plan, funds, birth assistants, malpractice insurance, legal paperwork like CLIA, business entity registry, consultation arrangements, and license to practice in state. Find a mentor …
When practicing as a midwife whether a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), Certified Midwife (CM), Certified Professional Midwives (CPM), Licensed Midwife (LM), or Direct Entry Midwife (DEM), you need to understand your state, national, and international scope of practice. Standards of care and scopes of practice are put into effect to make clear guidelines of training, …
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As midwives, we know so many people from caring for so many clients over the years. Your referral and relationship power really accelerates the success of your business. Success is a matter of being in the right place at the right time and saying the right things to the right people. Building your relationships and …
Every year I’m in practice, I’m further convinced that fundamental asset protection begins with implementing affordable, tried-and-true strategies and simple habits. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel. There are already laws on the books you can easily implement that will provide you with incredible protection in the event of a claim or lawsuit. Here …
Putting together your first birth bag is a BIG DEAL! You want to make sure you have everything you need to do multiple births in a row safety and not kill your back long term. There are many opinions about what supplies should be taken to a home birth. It will vary based on your …
Marketing is essential for branding and success of your practice. Unless you buy an already established practice with huge customer base, midwives need to market their services to the target market. Your marketing campaign should be focused around your mission, unique services, and community you serve. Midwives offer expertise in normal birth. Physicians, like Family …
Midwives are great at being cost effective and creating budgets and protocols on what is best versus most expensive option. During pandemics, there are ever changing health care standards and buying equipment in short supply gets expensive quickly. Birth center and midwives all over the country are frantically trying to make their profit margins work …
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The delivery of sterile products for use in patient care depends not only on the effectiveness of the sterilization process but also on the unit design, decontamination, disassembling and packaging of the device, loading the sterilizer, monitoring, sterilant quality and quantity, and the appropriateness of the cycle for the load contents, and other aspects of …
I knew I wanted to a be midwife at age 16. From the first moment I found out what a midwife was, something deep inside me said that is what you were meant to do. I always wanted to be part of women empowerment professional calling, but didn’t know exactly what. I was always frustrated …
I get asked this all the time, “Do I have what it takes to start a business?” Some people have the current traits to be a successful entrepreneur. While everyone can learn the skills required to be a successful business owner. There are so many traits that create a more successful business and it comes …
