Pat writes:

We are sort  of on a path here, whether we like  it or not :-(  BTW, I don't  
think the path needs to be via medical or nursing school.  PT's don't  have 
to go that route.  In the US, unfortunately,  CNMs go thru  the nursing 
school  route, elsewhere in the world CNM is a route of  it's own 
 
~~ I may be missing something but I would think that a Certified Nurse  
Midwife would have to be a nurse. A lay midwife, not but a CNM is a nurse  right? 
As for PT, yes it is a stand-alone profession in terms on not having to  be an 
MD or an RN to be a PT but one does have to graduate from a school  accredited 
in physical therapy,( usually at the Masters or Doctoral level,  another 
controversy of growth among PTs now one almost has to be a Doctor of  Physical 
Therapy, many schools are discontinuing their BS and MS programs) to  even take 
the PT boards to be licensed.

There is also no mandate to join the American Physical Therapy Association  
and it seems each state where one is registered sets Scope of Practice.  
Interesting thing I found out just now, is if you search for PT programs, most  of 
the time, you don't get them, you get Massage Therapy programs, which  is  a 
subset of PT skills, with its own intrinsic value but not the same  thing at 
all. Guess all healthcare professions struggle...
 
Peace,
Judy

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