About this program

The University of Delaware Nurse-Midwifery program prepares safe, competent, and evidence-informed Nurse-Midwives who promote physiologic processes of maturation, reproduction, childbearing, and well newborn development through clinical excellence, innovation, family-centered and preventative primary care. Through interprofessional education, appropriate technologic intervention, strategic partnerships and responsive population health initiatives, we support maternal-child health workforce development to improve local, regional and national outcomes.

The nurse-midwife program was created to respond to maternal child workforce shortages within the state of Delaware, and therefore is currently only offered full-time. We recognize that the working nurse has a busy schedule and therefore encourage students to prepare financially for full-time plans of study.

The Post-Graduate Nurse Midwifery Certificate program is intended for individuals who already hold a minimum of a Master of Science in Nursing degree and certification/ licensing as a nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist with the core courses and clinical experiences necessary for eligibility for advanced certification to become an Certified Nurse-Midwife, and prepares advanced practice clinicians to deliver high quality care to women across the lifespan, and newborns to 28-days of life.

The program is 100% online with two on-campus skill based-intensives.