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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Obstetrics Or one who practices that medicine. - An obstetrician
The best route to take is to specialize in obstetrics. Once you become a nurse, take assignments that place you in obstetrics, so you will get a feel of the discipline.
she could be a midwife if she has the proper credentials.
Science is the foudation of health care, so it couldn't hurt.
Obstetrics is the field where you are dealing with mothers who are expecting babies, and helping them with their personal care in the time that is leading up to the delivery. These nurses are the ones that help with the labor and delivery of the baby(ies). They are the ones that work on the babies that come out of the mother. If needed the obstetrics nurse would pass the baby off to the neonatology team if there should be any specific problems with the baby.
The abriviation for Obstetrics is Ob.
1) Low Risk Obstetrics 2) High Risk Obstetrics 3) Oncology
they deliver babies they not only deliver babies but they are also the doctors to check on women who are pregnant. they give the woman her checkups and ultrasounds and fetal testing, so as you can see there is a lot more to obstetrics than just delivering babies, half the time they don't even deliver the babies themselves, a midwife or nurse that is certified will do it.
J. P. Greenhill has written: 'Obstetrics for the general practitioner' -- subject(s): Obstetrics 'Obstetrics, from the original text of Joseph B. de Lee' -- subject(s): Obstetrics 'Greenhill's Office gynecology' -- subject(s): Female Genital Diseases, Gynecology 'Obstetrics' -- subject(s): Obstetrics 'The miracle of life' -- subject(s): Childbirth, Prenatal care
Harrison H. Sheld has written: 'Obstetrics and Gynecology Review, 1996' 'Obstetrics & Gynecology Review 1992' 'Obstetrics and Gynecology'
M. G. de Bruin has written: 'Bovine obstetrics' -- subject(s): Veterinary obstetrics, Veternary obstetrics
Obstetrics and sometimes Pediatrics. But mainly OB (Obstetrics).