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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="8-6D-01" title_number="8" title_name="Nurses" subtitle_number="6D" subtitle_name="Licensed Certified Midwives">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“ACME” means the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education, or a successor organization that is an accrediting agency for midwifery education programs and institutions and is approved by the United States Department of Education.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“AMCB” means the American Midwifery Certification Board, or a successor organization that is a certifying agency for midwifery education programs and is approved by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Applicant” means an individual who has submitted an application to the Board to be licensed as a certified midwife.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Board” means the State Board of Nursing.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“License” means, unless the context requires otherwise, a license issued by the Board to practice certified midwifery.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Licensed certified midwife” means an individual who has been issued a license by the Board under this subtitle to practice certified midwifery.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Licensed certified midwife” does not include a licensed direct–entry midwife or a licensed nurse certified as a nurse–midwife under this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Practice certified 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 certified 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 midwifery;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The prescribing of Schedule II, Schedule III, Schedule IV, and Schedule V controlled dangerous substances commonly used in the practice of 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>
  </level>
</section>
