Master of Science in Nursing- Nurse-Midwifery Pathway

The UAB School of Nursing MSN Nurse-Midwifery Pathway equips nurses for advanced nursing practice to provide a full range of women’s health services from adolescence through menopause. Patient care includes gynecologic care, family planning and preconception services, care during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, as well as care of the newborn during the first 28 days of life. Midwives are primary care providers who offer initial and ongoing comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. Nurse-midwives emphasize and utilize respectful shared-decision making with the patient, offer health promotion, disease prevention, and individualized wellness education and counseling.

Hold a BSN degree from a regionally accredited institution and a nationally accredited nursing program (CCNE or CNEA accreditation), equivalent to the one offered by the UAB School of Nursing.

Possess an unencumbered and unrestricted nursing license to practice in the state where you plan to conduct your clinical practicum.

Cumulative undergraduate grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale or on the last 60 semester hours.

Students with less than a 3.2 GPA (last 60 hours undergraduate GPA or overall undergraduate GPA) are required to complete and submit scores for the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) or GMAT; only scores completed within the previous 5 years are accepted. Minimum required scores are a combined score of 297 on the verbal and quantitative sections of the GRE or score of 480 on the GMAT. Applicants who have successfully completed a graduate degree from a regionally accredited academic institution may receive a waiver for this requirement if they achieved a GPA of 3.0 or higher in their previous graduate degree program.

Submit three letters of professional reference attesting to the applicant’s potential for graduate study.