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The Air Force has a tremendous variety of career fields available to officers —each with unique challenges and rewards. If you know exactly what you're looking for, use the keyword search for a list of job titles and descriptions. Or, if you're interested in seeing what the Air Force has to offer, browse the different career fields in the pull-down menu.
Nurse-Midwife
Duties and Responsibilities
Nurse-Midwives render comprehensive care to women from menarche through menopause, evaluating the prenatal patient's condition and formulating a plan of care to maintain healthy progress. They administer medications and treatments within delineated parameters and institute lifesaving emergency measures pending obstetrician's arrival. Other responsibilities include facilitating the postpartum patient's optimum physical and psychological transition to parenthood, and caring for newborns following delivery.
The Nurse-Midwife manages a variety of gynecological conditions, performing annual health screening examinations and referring patients with complex problems for physician management. The Nurse-Midwife is also responsible for providing family planning counseling and various methods of birth control, and prescribing hormonal replacement therapy for menopausal women.
Civilian Opportunities
Civilian Nurse
Duties and Responsibilities
People are often surprised to learn the variety of jobs open to RNs. Most familiar is the nurse who works in the hospital caring for patients; however, here are just a few of the other types of opportunities for RNs: working as a sales representative for a company that makes medication or medical equipment; managing a healthcare-related organization; working in the medical publishing field; or working as a coroner.
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