T300 Clinicals: Births as Primary Midwife Under Supervision

T300 Clinicals: Births Acting as Primary Midwife Under Supervision. $4,000. Pre-Approval Required. Twenty births. This “class” is an advanced apprenticeship. For this course, you will have to complete an in-person interview, agree to the requirements including a non-compete agreement, be approved, and pay $200 deposit. Then you will attend one birth with a midwife preceptor (with approval of the birthing mother, of course). In addition to responsibility to help with carrying, simple tasks, and cleaning; you will also have clinical responsibilities appropriate for your skill level focusing on thinking and acting as the primary midwife. You will begin to “catch” babies in this phase, under the direct supervision of the midwife preceptor. After the birth, we will sit down together and review what happened and our thoughts about the birth. Neither will have any obligation to continue, but if approved to continue, you will pay the remaining $3,800 and attend 19 more births with a midwife preceptor. Your skills and responsibility level will increase throughout this course. The midwife preceptor may sign off your NARM paperwork for Phase 3, if she feels you have completed the requirements for the phase. This is an individual course, not a group course, and we will limit the number of students in this course simultaneously. The midwife preceptor may terminate this course at any time if she is displeased with the student actions or attitude. If that happens we will attempt to find another midwife preceptor willing to allow you to attend a birth with her and we will begin with the one trial birth again. If no midwife preceptors are available and willing, the course will be terminated and a refund of $200 per each remaining birth minus a processing fee of $50 will be made to the student. Additional births, if needed, will be $200 each. “Test out” fee is $50 for review of clinicals already completed in phase 3 with other midwife preceptors. Work-exchange, partial work-exchange, or scholarship may be available, please inquire.