A Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) is a midwife who is highly trained in a range of primary care services for women from adolescence through menopause. This care includes primary care, gynecologic and family planning, preconception, prenatal care, labor and birth care, postpartum, and newborn for the first 28 days of life, as well as ability to prescribe medications — which includes prescribing for sexually-transmitted infection treatment for male partners of clients.

CNMs are advanced-practice registered nurses (APRN) who have been graduate-level prepared in midwifery and nursing and nationally certified, as well as licensed in their respective practice state. The standard for all APRNs entering practice as of 2025 is to be doctoral prepared.