Show it l J t I t f rr 4 I V 1 yR ky NAB I FIRST BABY BORN during Healthy Baby Week Is lay Jay Ryan Moore son of Mr and Mrs Gary Gory Moore born May 12 He Hel 1 Is proudly shown with nurse-midwives nurse Karin Hangsleben and Lois Hastings and his mother Nurse mid Nurse midwives wives train at county hospital Nurse This word has been common at the Uintah County Hospital for the past eight weeks but what is it who are they THE TILE is a registered nurse who by the virtue of added knowledge and skills gained through a program of theory and clinical practice by the American College of Nurse-midwives Nurse has extended the limits of his or her practice into the area of management of care of the mother and her infant throughout the maternity cycle as long as their progress meets the criteria of normal The student nurse-midwives nurse Lois Hastings and Karin Hangsleben are completing a year two-year course in maternal- maternal newborn nursing and nurse- nurse midwifery at the University of Utah College of Nursing and both are working on thier Masters of Science degrees They recently took the national examination for nurse- nurse midwifery certification from the American College of Nurse Nurse- Midwives which will enable them to become licensed in instates instates instates states honoring such licensure TilE THE PROGRAM 1 requires each student to have a period of independent clinical practice with qualified physicians and or and pr nurse midwives Lois and Karin selected the Vernal area to meet the course requirements They are completing their eighth week of activities which included the following experience experience experience ex ex- ex- ex in Dr Paul and nd Dr James FAllens FAllens FAllens F. F Allens Allen's offices seeing pregnant women and new born infants hospital activities which included included in included in- in support and management of laboring patients deliveries assessments of post mothers and newborns in in- service education of nursing staff and patient education They have held a series of prenatal prenatal pre pre- natal classes for expectant parents and post classes for mothers 4 2 weeks after delivery for discussion of self-care self and baby care They also have taught a health class at the Uintah School Districts District's Young Mothers Program A new concept The Flexible Family Care Unit has also been started at the Uintah County Hospital by the student nurse- nurse midwives in conjunction with the hospital staff This program is designed for the father or orone orone orone one other designated individual individual individual in in- to visit the mother and baby at any time subject to their health and safety needs This includes holding and feeding the infant after proper hand washing The mother may have nave the baby with her at anytime for as long or as short a period as she he desires Either the mother or personnel may take the baby from the nursery or return him or her to the nursery at anytime This is quite different from the old hospital rules which usually kept the infant in the nursery at all times except for feeding In the past only the mother and hospital staff were allowed to be near the baby until after it was released from fron u the hospital According to the nurse- nurse midwives there are approxImately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately 18 nurse- nurse midwifery programs in the United States The University of Utah program has been in effect effect effect ef ef- 10 years The State of Utah also has had a licensing law for nurse-midwives nurse since 1971 This is the first time midwifery midwifery midwifery mid mid- students have done their with the doctors in Vernal however the University of Utah Nurse- Nurse midwifery program hopes to continue to send students to Vernal for thier explained the student nurse- nurse |