Midwife Resume Examples & Writing Guide

This sample is a full-scope certified nurse-midwife with about eight years in practice plus five earlier years as a labor and delivery nurse. The name and employers are invented. Replace the volumes, procedures and licenses with your own.

Midwife postings are usually screened by a clinical director or a practice manager, and often by a physician partner too. They want four answers.

• Are you credentialed for this state and this setting? Certification body, state license, prescriptive authority, DEA if you prescribe controlled substances, and hospital privileges if you have held them. Credentialing takes months, so anything already in place is worth money to them.
• What is your volume? Births attended per month or per year, prenatal panel size, clinic visits per day. Without those numbers, a director cannot tell whether you can hold a call schedule.
• What is your scope? Some midwives are intrapartum only; some run full-scope primary women's health with procedures. Say what you do and what you do not do.
• Can you work inside a team? Consultation and transfer of care are the friction points in every midwifery service. One line about how you work with the OB group is worth a paragraph about your philosophy.

“I need to know three things in the first ten seconds: your certification and license status, how many births a month you actually attend, and whether you can hold a 24-hour call. Everything after that is the interview.”

Three to five lines. Credential, years, setting, volume, one outcome or quality figure. New graduates use an objective and lead with clinical hours and births attended as a student.

Never paste your job description. Write what you personally do and attach a number: births, visits, panel size, procedures a year, transfer rate, outcome measures. Group them the way your practice does.

Twelve to sixteen clinical skills, in the order your setting values them. A hospital service reads the intrapartum list first; an outpatient practice reads the procedures and contraception lines first.

Intrapartum and newborn:

• Labor management, physiologic birth support, comfort and mobility techniques
• Continuous and intermittent fetal monitoring interpretation
• Induction and augmentation management under protocol
• Water birth support, if your setting offers it
• Postpartum hemorrhage, shoulder dystocia and cord complications
• Neonatal resuscitation and newborn examination
• Laceration and episiotomy repair

Ambulatory and primary women's health:

• Prenatal risk assessment and shared decision-making
• Postpartum care and perinatal mood screening
• Contraception counseling, IUD and implant insertion and removal
• Cervical cancer screening and abnormal result management
• Lactation support and referral
• Limited obstetric ultrasound, where your credentials allow
• Prescribing and medication management

Professional skills a director notices:

• Consultation, collaboration and transfer of care with physicians
• 24-hour call coverage and handover discipline
• Precepting students and new graduate midwives
• Quality improvement, drills, protocol writing
• Epic, Cerner or other EHR documentation and obstetric coding
• Working with interpreters and with clients from varied cultural backgrounds

Midwifery credentials in the US are not interchangeable, and employers know the difference. Write yours precisely and put the section near the top.

• CNM, certified nurse-midwife. Requires an RN license and a graduate degree from a program accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME), plus certification by the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB). CNMs are licensed in every state and hold prescriptive authority, though the required physician involvement differs by state.
• CM, certified midwife. Also certified by AMCB, but through a graduate midwifery program without the nursing license. CMs may practice in a limited number of states, so check the state board before you apply there.
• CPM, certified professional midwife, certified by the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM). This is the out-of-hospital credential. Legal recognition and scope vary by state, and a few states do not license CPMs at all.
• State license numbers and expiry dates for every state where you are licensed. If you are applying out of state, say whether you have applied for licensure by endorsement and when.
• Prescriptive authority and DEA registration, if you hold them.
• NRP is expected almost everywhere. BLS and ACLS are usually required in hospitals. ALSO from the American Academy of Family Physicians and the C-EFM fetal monitoring certification from the National Certification Corporation are the two extras that most often show up in postings.
• Hospital privileges you have held, and whether you have been credentialed at a specific facility. Say so plainly; it shortens the employer's onboarding.

New graduate midwives have plenty to write, because clinical hours are documented in detail. The mistake is hiding them under "education" instead of treating them as practice.

1. 1Write your certification status in the header: certified, exam date scheduled, or graduating on a stated date.
2. 2Create a "Clinical Experience" section above work history, with one entry per site: setting, dates, preceptor type and hours.
3. 3Give your numbers from your student record: births attended as primary, prenatal visits, postpartum visits, newborn exams, gynecologic visits. Programs track these, so use the real figures.
4. 4Keep your nursing experience if you have it. Five years of labor and delivery nursing is a genuine asset and directors weigh it.
5. 5Say what support you want. Asking for a service with a structured first-year preceptorship reads as self-aware, not weak.
6. 6List every current card: NRP, BLS, ACLS, fetal monitoring.

• Two pages is normal and expected for a practicing midwife. Clinical roles carry licenses, certifications, privileges and volumes that will not fit on one page. New graduates should still aim for one to two.
• Order: header with credentials, summary, certifications and licensure, clinical experience, education, skills, then teaching, committees or presentations if you have them.
• Send a PDF. Keep one column with plain headings so hospital application systems read it correctly.
• No photo, no date of birth, no marital status on a US application, even though a midwifery CV in the UK, Australia, the Philippines or Nigeria may be written differently.
• Academic midwifery posts and faculty roles do ask for a full CV with publications and presentations. That is a different document from the two-page resume you send to a clinical service.
• If you are applying across state lines, put your licensure plan in the summary. "Oregon APRN license active; Washington licensure by endorsement submitted July 2026" answers the first question a recruiter would otherwise have to ask.

Phrases worth mirroring from postings when they are true of you: certified nurse-midwife, AMCB, full scope, intrapartum, antepartum, postpartum, well-woman, prenatal panel, call coverage, collaborative practice agreement, consultation and referral, fetal monitoring, NRP, laceration repair, contraception, IUD, lactation, group prenatal care, quality improvement, Epic, credentialing, privileges.