Hotelling and Colleagues Publish Article in the Journal of Perinatal Education

Clinical nurse educator Barbara Hotelling recently published an article entitled "Amazing Things Happen When Student Nurses Are Given Birth Doula Training" in the Journal of Perinatal Education. Co-authors include Erin O'Brien. 

Abstract

At the Duke University School of Nursing, accelerated BSN students participate in a free Doulas of North America birth doula training to learn support of prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum women and their families. They learn to participate as team members providing continuous physical and emotional support to women in the perinatal period and to appreciate how hormones support physiologic labor and birth. This training complements classroom information and clinical experiences.