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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

8. Nursing Student with Learning Disability

   RoxyDi replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   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...

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

   RoxyDi replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   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...

10. HCA Hospital

    RoxyDi replied to barkscotty's topic in Texas Nursing

    Aw, don't let other people's perceptions worry you. You could have a perfectly lovely experience there! You might get a great position with a leader who has a terrific attitude - one who hasn't been...

11. The Case Against Breastfeeding

    RoxyDi replied to EffJay's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I agree completely that whatever decision a woman and her family make about BF should be honored. My real message was that the author seemed angry that her experience wasn't scientifically backed up,...

12. HCA Hospital

    RoxyDi replied to barkscotty's topic in Texas Nursing

    Sounds like someone knows "tricks" to being successful as a professional. Be quiet for 3 months? Don't offer suggestions? Having a hard time understanding how this makes a facility "a awesome" place...

13. UT Arlington RN-BSN spring 2010

    RoxyDi replied to RoxyDi's topic in Texas Nursing

    Good luck with your first course. Keep me posted on how it is going, and weather you are glad you made that decision. I'm looking forward to getting started soon after

14. HCA Hospital

    RoxyDi replied to barkscotty's topic in Texas Nursing

    Recent new management with resulting high turnover from what I've

15. ? re unlabeled meds

    RoxyDi replied to OklaLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I would offer to report anyone who suggested you take meds from home and use them without verification to their respective licensing board. Of course, you would have to have proof, and that would be...