BUS 3010

Course Description

Issues concerning a professional midwifery practice including business strategies, ethics, counseling, taking apprentices, teaching 5classes, statistics, birth certificates, informed consent, charges, billing, insurance collection, types of services, medical back-up, transport, and laws affecting midwifery. 

Learning Objectives: 

1. Know how to start a home-birth midwifery practice. 

2. Have all paperwork and forms necessary to start a home-birth midwifery practice. 

3. Know how to network with professionals in their area, medical and otherwise. 

4. Know how to manage their practice and remain within legal and ethical boundaries. 

5. Know how to market their practice and be successful in business. 

6. Have a working knowledge of the insurance billing cycle

(Midwives College of Utah, 2023).

Prerequisites: Completion of all Phase Two courses or currently a CPM/RM. All Phase Two courses completed August, 2023. 

Credits: 2

References

Midwives College of Utah. (August, 2023). Midwives College of Utah 2023-2024 course catalogue. Salt Lake City, Utah.