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Planned Parenthood Case Study

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Early mornings at the East Los Angeles Planned Parenthood clinic are whirling with patients standing by closed doors to get their gynecologic needs covered by professional clinicians. Business simmers down after the rush hour of the early mornings and the afternoons. At the end of school, later in the afternoon, the clinic would become hectic with high-energy hormone-filled teenagers asking all kinds of intriguing questions. Saturdays were always a little slower than weekdays, the usual day when people would have a little too much fun under the bed sheets before realizing the wreck they had caused once the weekdays rolled around the corner. The interior walls of the East Los Angeles clinic are painted lime green and blue. There were clear blue plastic chairs in the waiting room with a flat screen T.V. Each of the patient rooms had a gynecology examination bed. The facilities were always clean and were kept very neat, and were disinfected on a constant basis to meet the standards of a medical facility. Planned Parenthood is a government-funded not-for-profit organization providing quality community healthcare by licensed clinicians. Providing services …show more content…

Having first been a volunteer with Planned Parenthood for several years, thus obtaining the job through the connections she made throughout the years. She became a nurse practitioner after first being a volunteer in numerous hospitals during her undergraduate career and then going to nursing school, and working as a registered nurse at Huntington Memorial Hospital. Cynthia addressed that, “I always wanted to work with impoverished and low income communities.” She first discovered this passion as a volunteer during high school through various community service activities. She also wanted to work in the sciences as well as performing detective work. She feels that being a nurse practitioner allows her to combine all her passions into a perfect

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