Celebrating 50 Years of Nurse-Midwifery Education at Georgetown
Join Georgetown University School of Nursing as it celebrates five decades of training nurse-midwives to provide primary care to individuals across the lifespan as well as during the labor, birth and postpartum periods; manage sexual and reproductive health and gynecologic health; provide family planning services and preconception care; and manage the care of newborns up to one month.
Healey Family Student Center, Georgetown University
This afternoon symposium will be followed by an evening reception.
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History of Nurse-Midwifery Program Reveals a Lasting Commitment to Community Care and Political Advocacy
In its first two decades of existence, Georgetown University School of Nursing Nurse-Midwifery Program achieved remarkable success in providing perinatal care to the D.C. community and advocating for the profession of midwifery.
Nurse-Midwifery Alumna on a Mission to Improve Maternal Health in Zanzibar
Driven by the belief that women should not have to risk their lives if they become pregnant, nurse-midwifery alum Nafisa Jiddawi (NHS’14) returned to her home country, Tanzania, to establish the nation’s first holistic wellness center dedicated to women’s health promotion and disease prevention.