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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="8-601" title_number="8" title_name="Nurses" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Special Nurse Midwife Provisions">
  <text>In this subtitle:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>“Practice nurse midwifery” means the management and care of essentially normal newborns and of essentially normal women antepartally, intrapartally and postpartally.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>“Practice nurse midwifery” includes:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Family planning and well woman reproductive care;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>The prescribing of substances commonly used in the practice of nurse midwifery;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>The prescribing of controlled substances on Schedules II, III, IV, and V commonly used in the practice of nurse midwifery; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iv">
      <text>The dispensing of the substances prescribed in accordance with the provisions of items (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph in the course of treating a patient:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>At a medical facility or clinic that is operated on a nonprofit basis;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>At a health center that operates on a campus of an institution of higher education;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>At a public health facility, a medical facility under contract with a State or local health department, or a facility funded with public funds; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>With a starter dosage of a drug as authorized under § 8–508 of this title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
