LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – On Saturday, Nov. 14, the Lake County Office of Education medical assistant class of 23 students was fortunate to have Sasha Reynolds, RN, CNOR, BSHCA as the guest speaker for the obstetrics and gynecology lesson of the course.

Reynolds shared her vast experience and knowledge with the class, including a discussion of hormones, the reproductive process, prenatal vitamins, the importance of dental care during pregnancy and more.

Student Charlotte Horton-Wright and her classmates throughly enjoyed Reynolds' presentation.

“Who knows where I will land in my career, but if I were working with expectant mothers, I would feel good knowing from the moment a mother comes in for her first prenatal visit, I can have a part in sharing all the things I've learned, like patient education, prenatal history, tests, procedures and postpartum. There is nothing in the medical field more beautiful to me than a mother giving birth to a healthy baby,” Horton-Wright wrote of the presentation.

In addition to Reynolds, the medical assistant class has been fortunate to have the knowledge and experience of many other local health care professionals shared with them, including Deb Mitchell; Pauline Orr, RN-BC, BSN; Jackie Rad, RN, BSN, MSN; Lorena Watson, NPH; and former LCOE MA program student and graduate Jazmin Cruz, CMA.

All of these health care professionals have donated their knowledge and time to enrich and support the efforts of LCOE’s Adult Career Education program.  Their generous gift of knowledge and their examples of professionalism inspired the entire class.

The students are most thankful to them for such an outpouring of support from established and esteemed members of the Lake County health care community.