Kya Nichols

- Provides additional support and ongoing home visitation services during the important early years of a child’s life.
- Conducts standardized screenings to identify potential developmental delays or health challenges for the child. - Completes screenings for maternal depression for pregnant and parenting women, and provides linkage as needed.
- Emphasizes motherhood and fatherhood engagement, with bonding and attachment strategies for family development. Educate fathers on their role, and mental health, and healthy relationships.

- Provide education on birth plans, prenatal care, breastfeeding, and other topics related to pregnancy, postpartum care, and taking care of newborns.

• Assisting midwives and clinical staff with birthing process as well as prenatal care.
  • Handled administrative work in the front office for prenatal visits and birth plans
  • Shadowed and assisted midwives with various procedures and techniques at births
  

• Student at St. Joseph Hospital
  Shadowed and shifted on floors including Medical Telemetry, Pulmonary Renal, Maternal Fetal, Pelvic Health, Mother & Baby