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AFSC 46G4, Staff
AFSC 46G3, Qualified
AFSC 46G1, Entry

Specialty Summary. Independently manages women’s health care with emphasis on the maternity cycle. Practices in collaboration with an obstetrician/gynecologist, or family practice physician if no obstetrician/gynecologist at assigned base. Related DoD Occupational Group: 6E.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Renders comprehensive care to women from menarche through menopause. Evaluates prenatal patient’s condition and formulates plan of care to maintain healthy progress. Provides intrapartal care within scope of practice and expertise. Consults primary obstetrician and co-manages comprehensive care for high-risk patients. Administers medications and treatments within delineated parameters. Institutes lifesaving emergency measures pending obstetrician’s arrival. Facilitates postpartum patient’s optimum physical and psychological transition to parenthood.

Cares for newborn following delivery. Evaluates condition and institutes emergency measures. Counsels parents on normal growth and development of infant. Provides guidance and encourages acceptable health practices.

Manages gynecological conditions. Performs annual health screening examinations. Orders tests to detect disease processes. Refers patients with complex problems for physician management. Provides family planning counseling and various methods of birth control. Prescribes hormonal replacement therapy for menopausal women. Utilizes health promotion strategies.

Shares clinical expertise as consultant and instructor. Collaborates with health care team members to improve patient care delivery. Evaluates professional practice parameters through peer review. Participates in staff development programs.

Specialty Qualifications:

Knowledge. Knowledge is mandatory of: theory and skills of nurse-midwifery.

Education. The following education is mandatory as indicated:

For entry into this specialty, graduation from an accredited school of nursing acceptable to the Surgeon General, HQ USAF, and enrollment in an Air Force-sponsored graduate level nurse-midwifery program.

For award of AFSC 46G3, completion of an approved course in nurse-midwifery acceptable to the Surgeon General, HQ USAF.

Training. None.

Experience. None.

Other. For award of AFSC 46G3, certification by the American College of Nurse-Midwives Certification council or the American College of Nurse-Midwives is mandatory.

Specialty Shredouts:

None

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Above Information Derived from AFMAN 36-2105