nurse-midwife
- n a registered nurse who has received special training as a midwife
- Trained as a nurse-midwife during the 1960s in New York City's Harlem and in Dayton, Ohio, she spent the early years of her career in the trenches, caring for women and girls .
- Her nurse-midwife Bonnie Frontino discovered her picture on what looked like WANTED posters all around her neighborhood; sheriffs began patrolling the area of her house.
- Nursing has long had such specialists as the nurse-midwife and the nurse-anesthetist who assisted at surgery.