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NMAC backs drafting regulations to tie California midwifery licensure to national accreditation and certification
Summary
The Nurse Midwifery Advisory Committee voted to ask the education subcommittee to draft regulatory language that would require applicants for nurse-midwife licensure to show completion of an ACME-accredited education program and proof of AMCB national certification; committee members requested staff and the full BRN be briefed as drafts progress.
Kim Do, presenting as a member of the NMAC education subcommittee, asked the committee to consider updating California Code of Regulations, title 16, sections 1460 and 1462, which set board educational standards for nurse midwives. Do told the committee the regulations were last amended in 1985 and that statutory scope-of-practice changes and national accreditation standards argue for a fresh review.
Do outlined three existing regulatory pathways currently in CCR 14 60: (1) completion of a program that meets BRN standards (pathway most commonly used by California-based programs), (2) an equivalency pathway under which the board reviews an applicant's program and may request remediation, and (3)…
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