Disclaimer / Privacy / Non-Discriminatory Policy / Americans With Disabilities Act
Disclaimer:
The National College of Midwifery is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity institution. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the information in this site is available in alternate formats upon request.
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Privacy Notice:
National College of Midwifery strives to ensure the privacy and accuracy of your confidential information. We do not actively share personal information gathered from our Web servers. We do not provide or sell any personally identifiable information to outside agencies (third parties).
Site activity data are collected throughout the National College of Midwifery web site and include information on domains, browsers, operating systems, and pages accessed. This information is used only for standard reporting purposes to improve site content and display. No attempt is made to track individuals or preserve any information relating to identified users. We do not collect any persistent cookies. Any cookies we do collect are for purposes of fulfilling form requests and are immediately discarded as soon as you close your browser.
The National College of Midwifery web site contains links to a number of external Web sites. The College is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of the external Web sites to which we link.
If you contact us via e-mail or submit an online request for information, we will collect the information that you provide to us in your e-mail message or request, including your name, contact information, e-mail address and any questions or comments that you may submit.
If you send us any questions or comments by e-mail, we will use your e-mail address to respond to your questions or comments. If you submit an online request for information, we will use your name and contact information to process your request. If you enroll in the NCM and submit questions or concerns, we will use the information that you submit to respond to your questions or concerns.
Non-Discriminatory Policy:
The National College of Midwifery admits staff, faculty, and students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, physical ability and sexual orientation, to all rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to staff, faculty, or students of the College. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, physical ability or sexual orientation in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, or any other college-administered program.
The Americans With Disabilities Act is designed to protect persons with disabilities from discrimination. They recommend that the “essential functions” necessary for performing the proposed job, schooling, etc., be fully described so that the candidate can determine if she/he can perform these “essential functions”. The “essential functions” for midwifery students might be described as follows:
- To read and understand technical and scientific material
- To apply knowledge obtained from books, classes, clinical experiences to real-life situations
- To memorize facts and test successfully for them
- To write coherent essays analyzing health problems
- To research topics relevant to midwifery practice and present findings
- To perform differential diagnoses based on information given by the patient and obtained by oneself clinically
- To perform clinical skills for obtaining physical information from clients
- To perform clinical skills essential to the physical tasks that may be necessary during prenatal, birth, post-partum, newborn and wellwomen care
- To lift and reposition clients
- To perform motor skills such as suturing, starting IVs, intubating, injecting, driving vehicles
- To correctly administer medications
- To work long hours at a time, sometimes without much break, even for days at a time
- To communicate successfully with clients, their families, your colleagues, doctors, hospitals, laboratories, emergency services, community resources
- To elicit essential information from clients to ascertain their state of health
- To record clients’ health and progress and fill out required official documents
- To tell the truth about your knowledge of any facts relevant to a clients’ health
- To tell the truth about your skills levels
- To refer all clients who are out of your scope of expertise/practice to appropriate practitioners
- To keep confidential all information about all clients
- To teach clients about the functioning of their bodies, during the prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, interconceptional and menopausal phases of life
- To orient clients to resources, information, behaviors, practitioners that could help them with their health
- To inform clients of available alternatives
- To obtain informed consent before undertaking any treatment or testing
- To perform self-evaluation and preceptor evaluation
- To successfully perform midwifery skills under preceptor supervision and to gradually take increased responsibility until you can perform all midwifery tasks independently
- To seek assistance from qualified persons whenever in doubt
- To maintain self-health, mental, physical, spiritual
The ADA does allow employers, preceptors, etc., to ask a student if they can perform the essential functions. Employers/preceptors can ask the student to describe or demonstrate how they will perform an essential function. They can also test for aptitude, physical agility, intelligence and specific skills. The College Administration is available to help students and preceptors think through reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities.