BUS 3010 Small Business Fundamentals, 2 cr.

PREREQUISITE: Completion of Phase Two classes or currently a CPM/RM

Issues concerning a professional midwifery practice including business strategies, ethics, counseling, taking apprentices, teaching classes, statistics, birth certificates, informed consent, charges, billing, insurance collection, types of services, medical back-up, transport, and laws affecting midwifery.

Learning Objectives:

1. Know how to start a home-birth midwifery practice.

2. Have all paperwork and forms necessary to start a home-birth midwifery practice.

3. Know how to network with professionals in their area, medical and otherwise.

4. Know how to manage their practice and remain within legal and ethical boundaries.

5. Know how to market their practice and be successful in business.

6. Have a working knowledge of the insurance billing cycle.

Course Catalog - Midwives College of Utah. (n.d.). Midwives College of Utah. Retrieved April 5, 2023, from https://www.midwifery.edu/course-catalog/