RoxyDi

RoxyDi has 34 years experience.

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1. Treat the Patient, not the Monitor.....Really?

   RoxyDi replied to jk2185's topic in General Nursing

   Sounds like you might want to brush up on assessment skills, gain more experience and also understand the unintended negative consequences associated with the use of technology. Neither people or machines are perfect. The saying is intended to remind...

2. Health care administration - non nurses

   RoxyDi replied to nutella's topic in General Nursing

   While I'm sure your personal experiences are important, not everyone will have the same experiences with being managed by someone in or outside their field. I believe that in many cases, nurses MUST supervise nurses, so I am talking about Management,...

3. A New Day: A New Psychological Contract with Night Nurses

   RoxyDi replied to RoxyDi's topic in General Students

   Thanks for the information. What I meant about not seeing information about the topic is that in the publications I've seen (management, patient safety, risk management, health care industry in general) most of the discussion on safety about sleep ha...

4. Health care administration - non nurses

   RoxyDi replied to nutella's topic in General Nursing

   How can you manage nurses if you don't have more than a superficial knowledge of what their job entails? The same way people without management skills (nurses without management education) can manage business entities, like hospital departments: by l...

5. Health care administration - non nurses

   RoxyDi replied to nutella's topic in General Nursing

   Great points. My son in law recently graduated from MBA school and is in a corporate leadership program with a major health care company. I am about to graduate with an MHA and I have 30+ years experience in the industry as an RN. Each of us will bri...

6. Health care administration - non nurses

   RoxyDi replied to nutella's topic in General Nursing

   I am with you, RiskManager. In my experience, more and more administrative positions are being filled with nurses, but that historically has not been so. I think the essential thing here is putting people with the right perspective into positions of ...

7. A New Day: A New Psychological Contract with Night Nurses

   RoxyDi posted a topic in General Students

   Recently, I've read several articles in healthcare industry publications related to sleep deprivation and the unsafe conditions faced by medical students and residents, and how their work is negatively impacted as well as their personal lifestyles. M...

8. Nursing Student with Learning Disability

   RoxyDi replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   I echo supportive comments re: getting diagnosed for appropriate accommodations. When I graduated from a diploma program in 1981, I wanted to earn a BSN degree, but was petrified of having to take algebra and/or statistics. I never did well in junior...

9. The Nursing Licensing Cartel

   RoxyDi replied to rickbrown23's topic in General Nursing

   Actually, I was first licensed in Illinois in 1981, before NCLEX, and I did NOT have to retake board exams to get licensed in Texas in 1983. We had reciprocity between states (varying) at that time, too.

10. The Nursing Licensing Cartel

    RoxyDi replied to rickbrown23's topic in General Nursing

    "Well I believe in getting paid for what I have accomplished, and that is not a privilege, it is what is due. Those who hire us are privileged to have us work work them."Wow. Just wow. Ever have to prove yourself before? If not, get ready for it. T...

11. Should I get my masters? 48 years old with 24 years experience

    RoxyDi replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

    As a fellow nurse over 50 who has gone back to school twice now, starting at age 49, I agree that it is a great thing to do if you really do plan to use the degree. I was a diploma grad from the 70s who managed to get into several positions usually r...

12. The Nursing Licensing Cartel

    RoxyDi replied to rickbrown23's topic in General Nursing

    Unethical and likely illegal? It is called states rights, pure and simple.

13. The Nursing Licensing Cartel

    RoxyDi replied to rickbrown23's topic in General Nursing

    Well, you could look at it this way: The cartel charges a hefty price in order to weed out those who got into the profession for the wrong reasons...Maybe the requirements should be even more strict if verifying license and non-criminal background bo...

14. A Paradigm Shift in Nursing Practice

    RoxyDi replied to mamain's topic in Activism

    You know, readers decide in the first few sentences whether or not they will continue to read a post. This is what I was trying to say - I did not go further due to the errors in the beginning. The "hook" was not there for me. Professionals need to k...

15. A Paradigm Shift in Nursing Practice

    RoxyDi replied to mamain's topic in Activism

    Actually, trying to understand how to read the intent of the post. Just being honest here. Really.