Will AI Replace Nurse Midwives?

Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize patients.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Document findings of physical examinations.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Educate patients and family members regarding prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, or interconception care.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Write information in medical records or provide narrative summaries to communicate patient information to other health care providers.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Provide primary health care, including pregnancy and childbirth, to women.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Consult with or refer patients to appropriate specialists when conditions exceed the scope of practice or expertise.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Read current literature, talk with colleagues, or participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in midwifery.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Instruct student nurse midwives, medical students, or residents on the birthing process.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Establish practice guidelines for specialty areas such as primary health care of women, care of the childbearing family, and newborn care.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Plan, provide, or evaluate educational programs for nursing staff, health care teams, or the community.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Conduct clinical research on topics such as maternal or infant health care, contraceptive methods, breastfeeding, and gynecological care.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Manage newborn care during the first weeks of life.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.