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Kansas Midwives Alliance briefs nursing committee on certified professional midwives, licensure debate and collaborative transfer practices
Summary
A representative of the Kansas Midwives Alliance described certified professional midwives’ education, scope and emergency protocols, outlined judicial basis for midwifery practice in Kansas and discussed pros and cons of state licensure and local collaborative arrangements.
Deidra Dovrado of the Kansas Midwives Alliance briefed the Kansas Board of Nursing Practice Committee on the role, training and clinical practice of certified professional midwives (CPMs) and discussed how midwifery operates in Kansas without a statutory license.
Dovrado described CPM scope and training, including prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care, newborn screening and follow‑up visits, and said CPMs in other states may have limited prescriptive authority for medications such as oxytocics, vitamin K and antibiotics depending on state law. "We are certified professional midwives," she said, describing certification through the North American Registry of Midwives and apprenticeship‑based clinical training routes.
Dovrado reviewed Kansas’s legal landscape for midwifery: she said a 1993 court case commonly referenced in Kansas…
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