Christine Hunter, MSN, CNM Senior Lecturer Family and Child Nursing 357262 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Email Address: chunter2@u.washington.edu

I received my RN in 1979 and my nursing experience has been diverse, including work in Neonatal ICU, Pediatric ICU, and Labor & Delivery. I’ve also worked as a nurse examiner in urban pediatric and adult sexual assault centers and directed the primary school health program on the western Navajo and Hopi reservations.

I completed my midwifery education at the University of Colorado in 1991. I was lucky enough to be hired by the midwifery service where I did my integration; a busy full-scope hospital-based midwifery practice in Albuquerque. During my time there, I had the opportunity to fill a variety of roles and served as the research coordinator for midwifery data collection done in affiliation with the University of New Mexico, as a clinical preceptor for University of Colorado and University of New Mexico midwifery students and as the midwifery service director.

I moved to the Seattle area in September 2003 and accepted the job of midwifery education program director in the School of Nursing. I am still a clinician, providing women’s health care in an outpatient setting serving vulnerable populations. I am interested in the changes that are occurring in our health care systems, nationally and globally, how these changes are affecting women’s access to care and the choices they are making about their care and how this affects and is affected by the practice of midwifery. I have participated as faculty for both graduate and undergraduate nursing students in maternal and child health experiences in Mexico and Guatemala. I am a trainer for the ACNM’s HBLSS (Home Based Life Saving Skills) program which provides a model for providing care to mothers and their newborns who are at high risk for mortality in low resource settings.

Current Projects

• Technology-Enhanced Nurse-Midwives and Neonatal Nurse Practitioners Distance Learning (Key Personnel)

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