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For sisters Anna Jones, Becca Hook and Katie Hook, many of their childhood memories include OSF HealthCare St. Mary Medical Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe kind of grew up here with a single mom working in the hospital. We would call here and ask for \u2018Mom,\u2019 and they knew where to send us,\u201d Anna said.<\/p>\n

Their mother, Wendi Hook, has been a radiology technologist at OSF St. Mary since 2001. Raising her daughters in nearby Cameron, she always encouraged them to consider a career in health care<\/a> \u2013 even if they didn\u2019t follow in her footsteps as a rad tech.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told them I love my field, but we do not have the options you will have as a nurse,\u201d Wendi said.<\/p>\n

Finding their own path<\/h2>\n

Each of the three has found their own niche in nursing.<\/p>\n

Anna and Becca both started at OSF St. Mary as patient care technicians.<\/p>\n

As an RN, Anna found the type of nursing that fits her analytical personality in the Intensive Care Unit<\/a> (ICU).<\/p>\n

\u201cI just loved ICU. In the ICU it\u2019s so critical and technical. You have to be on top of all the drips and the vents,\u201d said Anna, who now works in ICUs as part of the Clinical Resource Team. \u201cI definitely found where I\u2019m supposed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becca first worked in the Emergency Department<\/a> (ED) as a PCT, then as an RN on the night shift. After switching to surgery \u2013 a field she\u2019s been interested since she had a brain tumor removed as a teenager \u2013 she now works in the same hospital and same shift as her mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was in the ED I was night shift and I never saw Mom,\u201d Becca said. \u201cNow that I\u2019m back on day shift we have lunch together again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI always thought I was too afraid of needles. I feel like there\u2019s a type of nursing for everybody,\u201d Katie said.<\/p>\n

Katie, the most compassionate one of the bunch, found her fit in hospice care.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like there\u2019s a type of nursing for every type of personality,\u201d Katie said. \u201cHospice is super personal, which is what I was looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feeling like family<\/h2>\n

While each of the four women works in a different field of medicine, they\u2019ve all found an opportunity that fits them individually within OSF HealthCare, an organization they say makes them feel at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, St. Mary was always a family,\u201d Wendi said.<\/p>\n

Now it is in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

To find out more about careers at OSF HealthCare, visit\u00a0careers.osfhealthcare.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For sisters Anna Jones, Becca Hook and Katie Hook, many of their childhood memories include OSF HealthCare St. Mary Medical Center. \u201cWe kind of grew up here with a single mom working in the hospital. We would call here and ask for \u2018Mom,\u2019 and they knew where to send us,\u201d Anna said. 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