North Carolina § 90-178 - 3. Regulation of midwifery.

§ 90-178. 3. Regulation of midwifery.

No person shall practice or offer to practice or hold oneself out to practice midwifery unless approved pursuant to this Article. A person approved pursuant to this Article may practice midwifery in a hospital or non-hospital setting and shall practice under the supervision of a physician licensed to practice medicine who is actively engaged in the practice of obstetrics. A registered nurse approved pursuant to this Article is authorized to write prescriptions for drugs in accordance with the same conditions applicable to a nurse practitioner under G.S. 90-18.2(b). Graduate nurse midwife applicant status may be granted by the joint subcommittee in accordance with G.S. 90-178.4. History (1983, c. 897, s. 1; 2000-140, s. 60.) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2013-360, s. 12I.2(a), (b), provides: "(a) The Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services shall appoint a subcommittee to study whether certified nurse-midwives should be given more flexibility in the practice of midwifery. In conducting the study, the subcommittee shall consider whether a certified nurse-midwife should be allowed to practice midwifery in collaboration with, rather than under the supervision of, a physician licensed to practice medicine under Article 1 of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes who is actively engaged in the practice of obstetrics. "(b) The subcommittee shall report its findings and recommendations to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services on or before April 1, 2014, at which time it shall terminate." Session Laws 2013-360, s. 1.1, provides: "This act shall be known as the 'Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2013.'" Session Laws 2013-360, s. 38.2, provides: "Except for statutory changes or other provisions that clearly indicate an intention to have effects beyond the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium, the textual provisions of this act apply only to funds appropriated for, and activities occurring during, the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium." Session Laws 2013-360, s. 38.5, is a severability clause.