North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 90. Medicine and Allied Occupations § 90-178.2. Definitions

a. Family planning;

b. Screening for cancer of the breast and reproductive tract; and

c. Screening for and management of minor infections of the reproductive organs;

a. Attending women in uncomplicated labor;

b. Assisting with spontaneous delivery of infants in vertex presentation from 37 to 42 weeks gestation;

c. Performing amniotomy;

d. Administering local anesthesia;

e. Performing episiotomy and repair; and

f. Repairing lacerations associated with childbirth.

a. Routine assistance to the newborn to establish respiration and maintain thermal stability;

b. Routine physical assessment including APGAR scoring;

c. Vitamin K administration; and

d. Eye prophylaxis for opthalmia neonatorum.

a. Management of the normal third stage of labor;

b. Administration of pitocin and methergine after delivery of the infant when indicated; and

c. Six weeks postpartum evaluation exam and initiation of family planning.

a. Historical and physical assessment;

b. Obtaining and assessing the results of routine laboratory tests; and

c. Supervising the use of prenatal vitamins, folic acid, iron, and nonprescription medicines.