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Laura Murphy St Charles IL: Finding Your Dream Laura Murphy of St Charles, Illinois, is a Registered Nurse working in the Intensive Care Unit at St Charles General Hospital. Formerly a nurse in the Maternity Ward, Laura Murphy transferred to the Intensive Care Unit five years ago, in 2010. “I was never dissatisfied with the Maternity Ward,” says Laura, “but my goal was the ICU. I wanted to be a critical care nurse.” But being a Registered Critical Care Nurse working in the Intensive Care Unit at a hospital was not always Laura Murphy’s goal.

“I had two young daughters. I was a single mother. I found a fantastic job that allowed me to telecommute as a Technical Writer, and I was able to stay home because of it.”

Laura Murphy of St Charles, IL worked as a Technical Writer for close to a decade, relying on friends whenever she grew desperate, “I felt like there was always someone there. One day Gwen would come over, that afternoon Chloe would show up… The list goes on and on, but the point is that there was always enough help so that I could focus on what I needed to focus on to keep us afloat.”

But dreams are realized in different ways, “I never woke up one morning and thought, ‘I want to go back to school and become a Registered Critical Care Nurse, and I want to work in the ICU.’ It was more like peeling back the layers of what I wanted to do, what I enjoyed doing. As the girls started going to school, becoming able to take care of the little things on their own I started gaining an interest in Nursing, which turned into going back to school, then realizing I really enjoyed the Critical Care aspect… It was more like a gradual discovery.”

But Laura Murphy of St. Charles, IL wouldn't leave Nursing for the world. "I could take time off and do something else for a while if I needed to, but I think I would always come back to Hospital. Once you find something you love doing, it sinks into your bones until you almost can't recognize yourself apart from it. It's a sort of shared identity you have with whatever you do. You're part of it, vice versa."

Laura Murphy’s daughters are a good deal older now. The hardest of times seem to be over with, and it appears she plans to stay exactly, happily, where she is.