Oklahoma § 59-3040.2 - Definitions

§ 59-3040.2. Definitions

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;

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 59. Professions and Occupations

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.