This session explores the path Hispanic nurses take in pursuing careers as nurse-midwives, highlighting the unique blend of cultural heritage, commitment to healthcare, and passion for maternal and family care. The role of a nurse-midwife offers an opportunity for Hispanic nurses to provide culturally sensitive care that reflects their community’s needs while addressing gaps in maternal health services.
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Presenters
Tanya Belcheff, DNP, CNM
Tanya Belcheff holds a degree from the University of New Mexico and has been in practice for 19 years. She is a member of ACNM and AABC. In 2016 she began to work as Regional Clinical Faculty at Frontier Nursing University. She has worked in birth centers and teaching hospitals as a full-scope midwife. She also has experience in administration and providing group care and physiologic birth in the birth center setting. Dr. Belcheff’s work with Frontier Nursing University has centered around innovative ways to integrate didactic learning into the clinical experience through simulation. She is passionate about elevating the status of families by decreasing health disparities providing innovative, inclusive, quality, client-centered care.
Lourdes Elena Prince, DNP, CNM, APRN
Dr. Lourdes Prince is a Regional Clinical Faculty (RCF) member at Frontier Nursing University. She has been a Certified Nurse Midwife since 1998. She was a labor & delivery nurse for 12 years before obtaining a Master’s of Science in Nursing in 1998 and a Doctor of Nursing Practice in 2012 from the University of Florida. She worked in a full scope private practice for 4 years before joining an OB-GYN Faculty practice with Orlando Health in Orlando, Florida. She joined FNU in May 2023 as Regional Clinical Faculty for Midwifery and Women’s Health.
At Orlando Health, Dr. Prince participated in the Perinatal Improvement Collaborative, testing interventions and protocols to reduce preventable deaths and complications among mothers and babies. She supervised first year OB-GYN residents with normal labor and birth. She helped launch the collaborative practice between Maternal Fetal Medicine and Certified Nurse Midwives at Orlando Health’s Winnie Palmer Hospital. She is committed to improving healthcare by clinically preparing OB-GYN residents, nurse practitioners and nurse midwives to serve their communities and has been precepting graduate nursing students since 1999. Her passion for precepting evolved into joining FNU as an RCF.
In June 2024, Dr. Prince was inducted as a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Faculty Fellow at Frontier Nursing University. She served as a member of the Diversity Impact Planning Committee and a moderator during the FNU DEI conference in July 2024. She is a reviewer for Nursing Workforce Diversity grant scholarships. She demonstrates her continued interest and commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion by serving as a member of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging committee and the Culture of Caring committees.