NCC Celebrates Perinatal Nurses Week: Honoring Nurses who Support and Safeguard Childbearing Families – October 10-16, 2025 September 20, 2025
This Perinatal Nurses Week, the National Certification Corporation (NCC) is proud to recognize and celebrate the dedication and profound impact of perinatal nurses across the nation.
Perinatal nursing is rooted in the importance of supporting, safeguarding, and educating childbearing families. In a healthcare system where the childbirth process is medicalized by frequent intervention such as induction of labor and operative birth, and high maternal morbidity and mortality rates persist, perinatal nurses have been trailblazers, inspiring change, respectful care, and advocating for the patients entrusted to them.
Nurses are leaders with a responsibility to pave the way for continued improvement in perinatal nursing. This privilege requires perinatal nurses to constantly think outside the box, embrace change, and seek out opportunities for personal growth and learning. NCC certified nurses exemplify this call to action by achieving national certification in their specialty. By attaining certification, perinatal nurses are elevating clinical practice, improving patient outcomes, and engaging in opportunities for life-long learning and professional engagement.
Florence Nightingale once said, “Let us consider that we are never done as nurses…we must be learning all of our lives.” Nightingale was a leader who demonstrated a passion for nursing with a commitment to speak out, educate, and change health care. Perinatal nurses share this same passion and demonstrate this same commitment to the patients and families they serve.
NCC honors the thousands of nurses and health care providers who provide compassionate, high-quality care to patients during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. We are pleased to recognize all perinatal nurses who have demonstrated expertise in their field and dedication to their profession by becoming certified. NCC invites all perinatal nurses to reflect on the life-changing work they do and encourages them to continue their vital role in perinatal care.