441.15 Nurse-midwives.
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441.15 Nurse-midwives.
(1)In this section:
(a)“Collaboration” means a process that involves 2 or more health care professionals working together and, when necessary, in each other’s presence, and in which each health care professional contributes his or her expertise to provide more comprehensive care than one health care professional alone can offer.
(b)“Practice of nurse-midwifery” means the management of women’s health care, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum care for newborns, family planning, and gynecological services consistent with the standards of practice of the American College of Nurse-Midwives and the education, training, and experience of the nurse-midwife.
(2)Except as provided in sub.
(2m)and s. 257.03 , no person may engage in the practice of nurse-midwifery unless each of the following conditions is satisfied:
(a)The person is issued a license by the board under sub.
(a).