About Me
Hands of Grace, LLC. Doula Services
Grace Jenkins, CD, RNC-OB
Certified Through Earth Mama Naturals since 3/28/21
Skills
- Emotional Support
- Mental Support
- Physical Support
- Informational Support
- Lactation Support
- Newborn Nutrition Education
- Client Centered Care
- Effective & Therapeutic Communication
- Electronic Fetal Heart Monitoring
Experience
- Registered L&D Nurse Certified in Obstetrics
- Prenatal and Postpartum Doula Care
- Public Health Nursing
- Various Babysitting Opportunities
- Baby Shower Planning
- Voluntarily attended births between job shadows and student nursing.
Experience
Springfield Memorial Hospital/Registered Labor, Delivery, and Postpartum Nurse
June 2022 – PRESENT
- Specializes in antepartum care, patient relations, clinical operations, and relationship building.
- Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families
- Promotes and restores patients’ health by completing the nursing. process, collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members, providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families, and supervising assigned team members
- Promotes patient’s independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching patients, family, and friends to understand conditions, medications, and self-care skills.
Sangamon County Department of Public Health/WIC & Family Case Management Nurse
October 2021 – May 2022
- Promotes positive health outcomes for participants through nutritional assessment, breastfeeding promotion/support, and program referrals.
- Conducts home visits and case management of social issues while communicating with diverse families, developing rapport and fostering open communication.
- Exhibits excellent communication skills, dependability, professionalism, and punctuality to serve the sangamon county community.
Trainings
- Navigating Day Care Waters: Assisting Breastfeeding Parents
- Human Milk Supply
- Roadmap to Breastfeeding
- Hug Your Baby
- Babywearing
- Civil Rights
- Sexual Assault
- Women, Infant, & Children Nutritional Education
- Basic Life Saving & Advanced Cardiac Life Saving
- Neonatal Resuscitation
- Spinning Babies
Education
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing BSN/Psychology Minor
AUGUST 2018 – MAY 2021, Springfield Regional Campus
Graduate of one of the nation’s leading colleges for nursing with three years of clinical practice in the medical surgical, community health, pediatric, acute care, and obstetric fields. Clinical skills consist of therapeutic communication, bedside manner, basic hygienic care, medication administration, thorough assessment, and documentation. Received a minor in Psychology focusing on research methods, abnormal psychology, lifespan & family.