Adrienne and Jenna, your Kindred Midwives, are both Certified Nurse Midwives. 

Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNM) are Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) who have acquired the formal education, extended knowledge base and clinical skills beyond the registered nurse level to practice in an advanced role as direct health care providers. Certified Nurse Midwives can practice in any setting and attend births in hospitals, birth centers, and home birth settings. They also have prescriptive authority to order, prescribe, and administer any medication.

A Certified Nurse Midwife:

🌺 Is certified by the board (Arizona Board of Nursing).

🌺 Has completed a nurse midwife education program approved or recognized by the board and educational requirements prescribed by the board by rule (4 years of undergraduate university and 2-3 years of graduate university education).
🌺 Holds a national certification as a certified nurse midwife from a national certifying body recognized by the board (American Midwifery Certification Board).

🌺 Has an expanded scope of practice in the provision of health care services for women from adolescence to beyond menopause, including antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, reproductive, gynecologic and primary care, for normal newborns during the first twenty-eight days of life and for men for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. 

🌺 Does not need a supervising physician to practice independently. 

For more information on CNM Scope of Practice in the state of Arizona, please visit: 

https://www.azbn.gov/scope-of-practice/faqs

For more information about CNMs, please visit the American College of Nurse Midwives:

https://www.midwife.org/