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Cathy Parker Research Paper

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Becoming a licensed practical nurse is a rewarding job that allows a nurse to care for other people and it has a rewarding salary, while the disadvantages is the lack of sleep and the multiple hours that a nurse has to spend on his/her feet. Cathy Parker is a licensed practical nurse and also a clinical director at Bay Springs After Hours Clinic in Bay Springs,M.S. She has been a licensed practical nurse for twenty-eight years and a clinical director for thirteen years. Cathy has several reasons why she chose her career to be a licensed practical nurse. She says the main reason she chose to be a nurse is because one night at church a little boy had cut his arm and as she bandaged him up God called her to be a nurse. Her second reason she became a nurse is her love for people and wanting to see others properly cared for. As she cared for her elderly grandmother when she was a teenager it made her feel helpful to see someone smile while being cared for. Her favorite part of her job is to see someone who has been in pain, smile after being cared for. The journey to becoming a licensed practical nurse can be difficult but rewarding. Cathy started …show more content…

The one disadvantage her job has is the long hours she has to work to get all the work done. She has to stand on her feet most of the day going from different offices and while doing that it then makes her back and feet hurt. Most of the time she is working from seven to nine and she usually comes home exhausted. Also another disadvantage is having to deal with the patients who do not want to continue their journey onto getting well and choses to just go home. She is the only clinical director at the clinic and has no assistant like most of the clinics so she sometimes can be extremely stressed out. With her sometime being stressed out her boss which is a doctor rewards her of a vacation. During her vacation she relaxes for a week and then return back to

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