In addition, the role, scope of practice, and prescribing authorization of a nurse midwife will vary depending on licensure and where they practice. Certified Nurse Midwife responsibilities may include: 1  Primary and specialty care for women.
Messages: 357. Slack tide is when the current goes slack between tide changes and slack usually last 30min to an hour after peak high tide or peak low tide(hence high slack or low slack). Feb 27, 2008.
This phenomenon is due to tides raised by the Moon which slow Earth's rotation. Because of the way the second is defined, the mean length of a day is now about 86 400.002 seconds, and is increasing by about 1.7 milliseconds per century (an average over the last 2 700 years).