Doula training in 15 seconds
- Fifteen modules, three tracks. Foundations, practice, professional practice. At your own pace.
- Read, decide, reflect. Cases and quizzes, with the reasoning shown. Notes stay on your device.
- A doula is not a clinician. Every module says what to do, and what to hand to the care team.
- A record you keep. Not a credential. Real, supervised practice is the next step.
- Doula training. Learn the work. Know its limits. qualitydeath.com/training
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How it works
- Every module has the same parts: what you will be able to do, a scope check (what a doula may do, and what to hand to the care team), the lesson, an invented case to decide, five or six questions with the reasoning shown, and a reflection.
- Your notes and progress stay on this device. They are kept in your browser, never sent anywhere, and you can erase them from the capstone page.
- Every factual claim is sourced, with the date it was checked. Where the evidence is thin, the page says so.
- It is education, not a credential. Finishing does not certify, license or accredit anyone.
Track A: Foundations
What the role is, how people die, the systems you will work beside, and how to be present. Track overview and video ·
What an end-of-life doula is, and is not
The role, its limits, how it differs from hospice, chaplaincy and social work, and what the evidence does and does not show.
DoneHow people die: what is usual, and when to call the team
The illness trajectories, the last weeks and days, and the fixed rule: observe, comfort, tell the team.
DonePalliative care and hospice: the system you will work beside
Who is on each team, what the Medicare hospice benefit is, and where a doula does and does not fit.
DoneCommunication, presence and cultural humility
Listening without fixing, silence, hard questions, interpreters, and trauma-informed practice.
Track B: Practice
The work itself: values conversations, the vigil, the family, faith and meaning, legacy, and after the death. Track overview and video ·
Values and planning conversations
Advance care planning in plain terms, and the line between a values conversation and a medical-orders conversation.
DoneThe vigil and comfort presence
Planning a vigil, comfort that is not clinical, and what to do at the moment of death.
DoneFamily and caregiver support
Caregiver strain, family systems, children near a death, respite, and safety.
DoneCulture, faith and meaning
Spiritual care beside the chaplain, meaning-making, and traditions asked about, not assumed.
DoneLegacy work
Letters, stories and ethical wills, run at the person’s pace, with the person’s words.
DoneAfter the death
The first hours, who does what, lawful choices for the body, and where a doula’s work ends.
Track C: Professional practice
Ethics and hard topics, self-care, privacy and safety, working with the care team, and your portfolio. Track overview and video ·
Ethics, boundaries and hard topics
Scope as the core ethic; medical aid in dying, stopping eating and drinking, sedation and suicidal thoughts, each handled neutrally.
DoneSelf-care and moral distress
What helpers carry, what the research supports and does not, and a sustainability plan you write.
DonePrivacy, records and safety
Confidentiality, notes, consent, home safety and the business basics to ask advisers about.
DoneWorking with the care team
Who is on the team, how to introduce yourself, SBAR-lite hand-offs, and earning a team’s trust.
DoneCapstone: your practice portfolio
A scope statement, a vigil plan, a hand-off note and a self-assessment, kept on your device and printable.
Alongside the modules
Practice conversations
Six invented conversations. Answer in your own words and see which of the person’s needs you met. Runs in your browser only.
A doula in the health system
Hospice, hospital, clinic, nursing home and community: three rails, documented and proposed examples, and a pilot playbook.
Am I ready to work beside a care team?
Thirty-some plain statements, tied to the modules. Ticked on your device.
Glossary
Clinical, regulatory, planning and field terms in plain language, with the ones a doula must not act on marked.
Resources and directories
Hospice locators, caregiver and advance-planning tools, and doula organizations. Listed, not endorsed.
What this is not
- It is not a certification. The field has no single credentialing body. Some organizations run their own programs; ask each what it certifies and what it does not.
- It is not clinical training. A doula does not diagnose, advise on medicine, pronounce death, or give legal, tax or financial advice.
- It does not replace supervised practice. Most hospices train their own volunteers; asking a hospice near you about its volunteer program is a practical next step.
- It does not promise work or payment. Medicare and Medicaid do not pay end-of-life doulas, and most doula work is paid privately. See how doula care is paid for.