Ms Parkin said she had wanted to work at the hospice after comments her auntie, who was dying of cancer, made to her as a young girl.
She told her she did not want to go into the Dougie Mac as “you only come out in a box.”
The healthcare support worker said she had worked to change the stigma around hospices.
“It’s not that place anymore, it’s a place where people can go and just relax, and know that we are there for them, take all their worries away, and be nursed like they should be nursed.”
People in the hospice love the sound of laughter, to have a chat and to have a joke, said Ms Parkin.
“Nothing is any different really because they are dying..they love us going into them, we make their day, they make our day, it really is a beautiful place.”