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As used in Shepherd's Law:

1. "Certified Nurse-Midwife" or "nurse-midwife" shall have the same meaning as provided by Section 567.3a of Title 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

2. "Commissioner" means the State Commissioner of Health;

3. "Committee" means the Advisory Committee on Midwifery;

4. "Department" means the State Department of Health;

5. "Licensed midwife" means a person who practices midwifery and is licensed under this act;

6. "Midwifery" means the practice of:

  • a.providing the necessary supervision, care and advice to a woman during normal pregnancy, labor and the postpartum period,
  • b.conducting a normal delivery of a child,
  • c.providing normal newborn care, and
  • d.providing routine well-woman care and screenings;

7. "Newborn" means an infant from birth through the first six weeks of life;

8. "Normal" means, as applied to pregnancy, labor, delivery, the postpartum period and the newborn period, and as defined by rules of the State Commissioner of Health, circumstances under which a midwife has determined that a client does not have a condition that requires medical intervention;

9. "Postpartum period" means the first six weeks after a woman has given birth; and

10. "Unlicensed midwife" means a person who offers midwifery services or holds himself or herself out to be a midwife who is not licensed under this act.

Added by Laws 2020, c. 40, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.


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