Brooke Eischens, APRN, CNM

Job Title

• Instructor of Nursing
  Nursing, College of Arts and Sciences

Highlight

Brooke has worked within obstetrics for eight years. First as a high-risk labor and delivery registered nurse (RN) and for the previous five years as a Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) in a community birth setting. She has been an instructor of nursing at Bethel for five years, teaching primarily obstetric content in the classroom, lab, and clinical settings. Additionally, Brooke will be completing a Doctor of Education: Leadership in Higher Education degree from Bethel in 2025.

Started at Bethel

2019

Education

• Bethel University - B.S. in Nursing, 2016
• Bethel University - M.S. in Nurse Midwifery, 2019

Biography

Brooke is a practicing, full-scope Advanced Practice Registered Nurse and Certified Nurse-Midwife with experience in women's healthcare, low- and high-risk obstetrics, and out of hospital, freestanding birth center care. Her clinical interests include family planning, infertility, adolescent health, integrative medicine, and preventative health. She values lifelong learning, embracing diversity, empowering the birthing person and their support system, and is passionate about the midwifery approach to care. As a nursing instructor, Brooke brings her expertise in these areas to the classroom and encourages students to apply obstetric and gynecologic principles to the many other areas of nursing. Brooke will be completing her EdD in 2025, with a dissertation focus on mental health in college students. 

Presentations

Guest lecturer: Topics in Obstetrics & Gynecology: Midwifery, Physiologic Birth, & Abortion to St. Kates students; April 2023 & March 2024

Guest lecturer: Antepartum Care to Bethel PA students; June 2023

Guest lecturer: Uncomplicated Intra- & Post-Pregnancy to Bethel PA students; June 2023

Guest lecturer: High Risk Pregnancy to Bethel PA students; June 2023

Guest lecturer: Healthcare for Gender and Sexual Minorities to Bethel PA students; June 2023

Panel presenter: Preparing for Nurse-Midwifery Boards to Bethel Nurse-Midwifery students virtually; April 2021

Panel presenter: Interprofessional Collaboration to Bethel Nurse-Midwifery students virtually due to COVID-19; April 2021

Reoccurring Presentation: Nursing and Nurse-Midwifery to high school students interested in healthcare careers; Rockford, MN; 2019 

Poster Presentation: Sexual Trauma and the Perinatal Period to Health Foundations nurses and midwives at Health Foundations Birth Center + Women’s Health Clinic; St. Paul, MN; May 2019

Certificates and Licenses

American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB)

Minnesota Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)

Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM)

Public Health Nurse Certification (PHN)

Neonatal Resuscitation Certification (NRP)

 

Professional Organizations, Committees, and Boards

American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)

MN APRN Coalition

Hobbies and Interests

Outside of work, Brooke enjoys traveling to new places with her family, especially places with great hiking opportunities. Additionally, Brooke plays piano and enjoys listening to records and passing on her love of music to her son.

Research interests

Sexual Trauma and the Perinatal Period: Risks, Complications, and Screening for a Vulnerable Population May 2019 (Master's Thesis) Interprofessional Collaboration Student Mental Health and Well-being

Teaching specialty

Obstetrics and gynecology topics in lecture, lab, and clinical courses.