LOS ANGELES — The needle moves carefully through simulated tissue as Cal State Fullerton student Joie Harvey practices a skill she could one day use helping deliver babies as a certified nurse-midwife.
Suturing is just one part of the training for students in the university’s nurse-midwifery master’s program, where they practice responding to a range of situations they could encounter in the delivery room.
“As a midwife, we are able to suture first-degree and second-degree lacerations,” said Harvey…