CQUniversity runs programs in a wide range of disciplines, including Business, Engineering, Information Technology, Learning Management ( teaching ), Midwifery and Nursing, Music and Theatre, Paramedic Science and Psychology.

The faculty offers full and part-time courses at all levels, from BSc and Diploma courses to MSc and PhD, plus a wide range of continuing education, in the areas of Midwifery, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Radiography, Social Work and other health-related professions.

Divisions of note include the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts ( WAAPA ), recognised as one of Australia's prestigious performing arts training academies ; the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Postgraduate Medicine which offers the largest undergraduate nursing program in WA ; and the School of Education which offers the widest range of secondary teaching specialisations within WA.

Midwifery is a health care profession in which providers offer care to childbearing women during pregnancy, labour and birth, and during the postpartum period.

Midwifery services are free to women living in midwifery regulated provinces.

In a study published in the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, women were asked, Why did you choose a home birth?

“ Not many women got to live out the daydream of women — to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself ” – the To Keung School of Midwifery made this all possible.

Midwifery — practiced along traditional lines by women — was restricted and practically died out by 1900.

In his study of obstetrics, Davis sought to improve the design of instruments used to assist childbirth and published widely on the subject, including his 1825 Elements of operative Midwifery and 1836 The principles and practice of obstetric medicine in a series of systematic dissertations on the diseases of women and children.

The proceeds from these sales have been ploughed back into the Leicester City Campus, which has consequently seen a large amount of development including the construction of two new buildings and the extensive refurbishment of a third, the Edith Murphy building ( formerly Bosworth House ) to house the students and staff of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, previously based at Charles Frears.

In partnership with Kingston University, the joint Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences offers degrees in physiotherapy, paramedic science, nursing, midwifery, social work and diagnostic or therapeutic radiography, including Breast Imaging Foundation Degree, Midwifery / Registered Midwife for registered nurses BSc ( Hons ), Midwifery / Registered Midwife BSc ( Hons ), Nursing / Registered Nurse BSc ( Hons ), Paramedic Science Foundation Degree, Physiotherapy BSc ( Hons ), Radiography, Diagnostic BSc ( Hons ), Radiography, Therapeutic BSc ( Hons ) and Social Work BA ( Hons ).

Between 1920 and 1930, the college went through a series of transformations, by replacing the old teaching staff with a younger generation of professionals and also nine new Chairs were created, the first in Anatomy in 1920, followed by Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery & Gynaecology in 1922 and Clinical Surgery, Bacteriology, Biology, Bio-Chemistry, and Dental Surgery in 1926.

Certain maternity hospitals in Dublin used to award a Licentiate in Midwifery or LM diploma, not to midwives but to qualified medical practitioners who had been examined there after a three-month residential appointment.

In 1995, the University took over the Sheffield and North Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery, which greatly increased the size of the medical faculty.

In Dublin, students at the School of Medicine of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland still qualify with licentiate diplomas from the two Irish Royal Colleges, coupled with a Licence in Midwifery from each, although in the past few years they have also been awarded the three medical bachelor's degrees of the National University of Ireland:

Her mother trained as a midwife at the To Keung School of Midwifery in Canton.

All practising midwives must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and also must have a Supervisor of Midwives through their local supervising authority.

Midwifery also changed during this era due to increased regulation and the eventual need for midwives to become certified.

and international midwife Robin Lim ), and an increasingly popular continuing education topic for licensed midwives and certified nurse midwives in publications such as the magazines Midwifery Today and Mothering.

The university's School of Medicine and School of Nursing and Midwifery also operate the clinical part of their courses from a separate campus at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent.

To date, this provision has been used only occasionally ; for example, some provinces have added Midwifery, which means that their services are also fully publicly paid for.

The Farm's midwifery school and Ina May Gaskin's seminal book " Spiritual Midwifery " are well-known throughout the world for their emphasis on maternal and newborn compassion, safety and success rates.

The RCSI students also received a Licence in Midwifery ( LM ) from each college, in the same way that the Irish universities granted BAO degrees, so their qualifications were sometimes expressed as L & LM, RCPI, L & LM, RCSI or more misleadingly as LLM, RCP & SI.

Upon graduation from these programs, graduates sit for a certification exam administered by the American Midwifery Certification Board.

* S. Solagbade Popoola, Ikunle Abiyamo: It is on Bent Knees that I gave Birth 2007 Research material, scientific and historical content based on traditional forms of African Midwifery from Yoruba of West Africa detailed within the Ifa traditional philosophy.

As an adult Herophilos was a teacher, and an author of at least nine texts ranging from his book titled, On Pulses, which explored the flow of blood from the heart through the arteries, to his book titled Midwifery, which discussed duration and phases of childbirth.

Nursing courses are taught just around the corner from Beaconside on Blackheath Lane following the integration into the university in 1995 of the Shropshire and Staffordshire College of Nursing and Midwifery, which also has bases in Shrewsbury, Telford and Oswestry.

She graduated from Kagoshima Konan High School in 1954 and attended the School of Midwifery attached to the Medical Department of Osaka University.

* Midwifery in Australia-emerging from the shadows with Jenny Gamble in " Midwifery-freedom to practise?

The Department of Nursing and Midwifery focuses on the development of nursing and on issues of nursing practice both from a theoretical and practical standpoint.

The Department of Nursing and Midwifery focuses on the development of nursing and on issues of nursing practice both from a theoretical and practical standpoint.

* Comparison of Jex-Blake and Florence Nightingale, from Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery

• Institutional Midwifery services were limited

In 1995, two more colleges were absorbed — Birmingham and Solihull College of Nursing and Midwifery, and the West Midlands School of Radiography — and the Birmingham School of Jewellery opened on Vittoria Street in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.

UCAS also operated NMAS ( Nursing and Midwifery Admissions Service ) for non-degree nursing and midwifery courses until September 2007, when these courses were incorporated into the UCAS scheme.

In 1995, the Lanarkshire and Dumfries & Galloway Colleges of Nursing & Midwifery were amalgamated into Bell College.

This structure survived with minor modifications up to April 2002, when the UKCC ceased to exist and its functions were taken over by a new Nursing and Midwifery Council ( NMC ).

All CMs must pass the same certifying exam administered by the American Midwifery Certification Board for CNMs.

Midwifery students do not pay tuition fees and are eligible for financial support for additional while training.

Midwifery training consists of classroom based learning provided by select Universities in conjunction with hospital and community based training placements at NHS Trusts.

Midwifery was reintroduced as a regulated profession in Canada in the 1990s.

Midwifery legislation has recently been proclaimed in New Brunswick where the government is in the process of integrating midwifery services there.

Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta offers a Bachelor of Midwifery program.

In Ontario, the Midwifery Education Program ( MEP ) is offered by a consortium of McMaster University, Ryerson University and Laurentian University.

A federally funded Multi-jurisdictional Midwifery Bridging Program is offered in Western Canada.

The University of British Columbia ( UBC ) has a four year Bachelors of Midwifery program.

Midwifery regained its status as an autonomous profession in New Zealand in 1990.

Midwifery care is fully funded by the Government.

The Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science contains the Schools of: Biomedical and Health Science ; Engineering and Science ; and Nursing and Midwifery.

It is a member of the Florence Network for Nursing and Midwifery and the Vives Network.

* 1994: The Sussex and Kent Institute of Nursing and Midwifery becomes part of the university, increasing the number of students based in Eastbourne.

* The Faculty of Arts ( Literature, Linguistics ), Faculty of Health and Social Science, Faculty of Education and Sport, School of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Applied Social Science, Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research, International Health Development and Research Centre, Social Science Policy and Research Centre, School of Education, Education Research Centre, the Centre for Learning and Teaching and the Brighton and Sussex Medical School are all based on this campus.

* Almost 3, 000 students are based here studying at Chelsea School, School of Health Professions, School of Nursing and Midwifery and the School of Service Management.