How to pursue a career in pre-natal care?

Darwin Ecton: Best thing to do is get in touch with a Junior College in your area and find out if they have a vocational nursing program. I work at a Junior College in California and we have one of the best nursing programs on the west coast we have a 99% completion rate with a 100% placement our nurses have been accepted in to work all over the U.S. Good Luck

Raven Purl: After 15 years in OB, I will say that one rarely finds LVN/LPN's in OB. That specialty, like Critical Care is RN-dominated, and those that aren't RN's are usually "Patient Care Techs" (some might say a patient care tech is below an LPN and above a nursing assistant/CNA).Why don't you see what the requirements are in area hospitals' OB units for Patient Care Techs or unit secretaries. Both of those jobs have very flexible hours and that works well with college schedules.In my hospital, our patient care techs( like the nurses) are all females, and they are usually present at most vaginal births (! bringing equipment to birthing room) and they act as a 2nd circulator for C-sections. Those that have children themselves are usually familiar with breastfeeding and assist new moms getting started feeding their babies (obviously breastfeeding difficulties are seen by Lactation Consultants), they also do general newborn care in the regular nursery and "babysit" when mom wants to take a nap. They start around 12.00 an hour, plus shift and weekend differential. The techs working weekend evenings/nights generally pull in about $17.00 an hour.Hope that helps!...Show more

Lilli Kochel: Nurses are superb, so many of them sacrifice so much, only so that they can look after for others. In the box below is a site I uncovered with loads of things about nursing - and loads of alternative vocations too.