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The Shenandoah University Midwifery Initiative: a model for midwifery education.

van Olphen Fehr J

Shenandoah University, 1775 N. Sector Ct., Winchester, VA 22601, USA. jfehr@su.edu

There has been a significant decline in the number of nurse-midwifery education programs in the United States in the past decade. This decline presents a challenge as the profession seeks to respond to the Pew Foundation's call to increase access to midwifery care in the United States. Collaborative arrangements between universities that house nurse-midwifery programs and other universities in the region could be an effective strategy to increase access to nurse-midwifery education, thereby increasing access to nurse-midwifery care.

Published 29 February 2008 in J Midwifery Womens Health, 53(2): 143-5.
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