"I love working at CHKD because it feels like family, and there is a huge sense of community support and love. Our team is diverse and always working together to make the families and patient feel like they matter most."
Reyna Nikolaus, FNP-BC, SANE-A, CPEN 
Practice
Education
College: Cayuga Community College
Graduate school: Walden University
Bio
After being a
nurse for 18 years in pediatrics/adult emergency room and trauma, Nikolaus decided to further her education and graduated with a family nurse practitioner degree.
After graduation, she worked as a hospitalist and realized how much she missed the pediatric population. When presented the opportunity to join CHKD, she couldn’t pass it up.
In 2013, she became a forensic nurse for CHKD’s child abuse program. Today, she is a pediatric surgical nurse practitioner, a role in which she can use all of her skills with CHKD's pediatric population and Level 1 trauma center.
Nikolaus lives in Waverly with her husband – a paramedic for CHKD's transport team –
and son.
Clinical Interests
- Forensics and trauma education
Honors & Awards
- Certified
Pediatric Emergency Nurse
- Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner- Adult/Adolescent
- Inducted in Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for
Nursing
Memberships
- International Association of Forensic Nurses
- Society of Trauma Nurses
- Emergency Nurses Association
- Visiting Nurse Association
- American Nurses Association
- American Association of Nurse Practitioners
- Board of Certification for Emergency Nurses