{"id":11209,"date":"2019-05-10T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=11209"},"modified":"2019-05-10T17:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:05:39","slug":"disney-mcnulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/10\/disney-mcnulty\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney McNulty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><i>Committed to the medical field<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">By Emilee Mae Struss<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11210\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11210\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/McNulty_photo-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood River High School senior Disney McNulty will graduate as a certified nursing assistant and hopes to be a radiologist or surgical technician one day. Photo credit: Disney McNulty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe teachers at Wood River High School really do their best to point you in the right direction,\u201d said senior Disney McNulty. \u201cAnd to them, I just want to say thank you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">McNulty will graduate this year as a certified nursing assistant. She put in the hard work\u2014mixed with the rare opportunity to graduate high school with her CNA certification\u2014and is thankful to be a \u201cstep ahead\u201d in the medical field. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">McNulty is originally from Albuquerque, N.M., and moved to the Valley to be closer to the family ranch, the Flying W Ranch, in Bellevue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">She says the ranch currently has seven horses, which she admires from a distance; McNulty is highly allergic to horses. She keeps a safe distance away since discovering this about herself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">McNulty may not ever be able to be a horse whisperer, but she has a strong nurturing side, nonetheless. She has spent a lot of time caring for the residents at Bell Mountain Village &amp; Care Center in Bellevue. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cIt was pretty eye-opening to do that work,\u201d McNulty said. \u201cI did eight-hour patient care shifts with feeding, wiping, and cleaning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">This experience helped her realize what she wants\u2014to help others. She says her main priority while working at Bell Mountain Village was to make the residents\u2019 stay a little bit better than before. She is staying in the Valley this summer and is currently working at the Coffee Corner in Bellevue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Next fall McNulty will attend the College of Southern Idaho to take her pre-requirements for a medical program. Post-pre-recs, she is not sure in which direction she will go; maybe, she says, toward being a radiologist or surgical technician.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cI like living in the Valley because it\u2019s quiet and it\u2019s nice to have a community,\u201d McNulty said. \u201cIn larger cities, most people probably won\u2019t know who you are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Editor\u2019s Note: Anyone who would like to recommend a Blaine County School District student for The Weekly Sun\u2019s \u201cStudent Spotlight\u201d feature should contact Emilee Struss at emilee.struss@gmail.com.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Committed to the medical field By Emilee Mae Struss \u201cThe teachers at Wood River High School really do their best to point you in the right direction,\u201d said senior Disney McNulty. \u201cAnd to them, I just want to say thank you.\u201d McNulty will graduate this year as a certified nursing assistant. 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