1955

After ANA’s rejection of nurse-midwifery as a medical practice and refusal of ANA and ALA to grant nurse-midwives status of an autonomous section that controlled its own educational and practice standards, nurse-midwives form their own American College of Nurse-Midwifery (ANM) (Dawley, 151, 156; Dawley III, 74-78). By 1971. There were 1,256 certified nurse-midwives, with 37% providing full scope clinical nurse-midwifery care (152).