Episode 40: Barbara Hotelling on Doula Nurses and the Duke-la Program

Episode Summary

Barbara Hotelling joins us to talk about training nursing students to be doulas, and why that training benefits them whether they end up doing doula work or not. The doula skill set sits inside good nursing practice in ways that show up in any patient interaction.

We get into the Duke-la program Barbara helped start, the small craft of building doula skills into a nursing curriculum, and her work on creative ways to test for anemia in resource-constrained places around the world. Barbara is the kind of guest who keeps the work concrete and the stories vivid.

Useful for nurses, midwives, and any educator thinking about how doula skills land inside a clinical scope.

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Barbara Hotelling on doula skills for nursing students

The Duke-la program at Duke University

Creative anemia testing in resource-constrained settings