Nurse-Midwifery/Family Nurse Practitioner
Educational Formats
If you are:
- A student without a nursing background,: For at least the first two semesters of the NM specialty, students will need to live in the Nashville area. The nurse-midwifery specialty requires weekly face-to-face coursework the first semester and gradually decreases the face-to-face time as the summer progresses. The last semester, there is a final block week on campus at VUSN.
Hybrid Course Format The NM Specialty uses a Hybrid Course Format, meaning students take on campus didactic classes with a changing schedule of clinical rotations and sites:
- The first semester – There are face-to-face classes three days a week on campus.
- The second semester – Outpatient Rotations – Three-four days per week at a clinical site either in Middle Tennessee, or usually within approximately a four-to-five hour driving distance from Nashville. Students will also have classes one day a week at VUSN in Nashville.
-
The third semester– Intrapartum/Post-partum and Newborn Rotations – students will spend the first month of the semester on campus, learning skills needed to begin attending births.
Once students have completed skills check offs, they begin attending births at clinical sites which may be anywhere in the United States. Classes the last two months of hte term are synchronous via Zoom. - The fourth semester – Students are at their final integration clinical site anywhere in the United States. They are on campus for approximately one week at the end of the semester to finish the NM portion of the program of study.
Please Note: that for the FNP portion of your education (the last semester), you are required to attend courses in concentrated blocks of time on campus, up to four times per semester for approximately five days per block. This block format does not apply to the Nurse-Midwifery specialty.
