March 2026 Honoree
Roxy Whitehead, BSN, RN, CCRN
Roxy assisted with a Code Blue in which a cord on the bed sparked, causing a malfunction in both the patient's bed and medication pumps and causing them to stop working.
Roxy reprogrammed brand-new pumps and helped stabilize the patient, and we eventually achieved return of spontaneous circulation. In addition, Roxy coordinated with multiple teams to help address the issue associated with the bed malfunction and assisted with transferring all of the patient's equipment to a new, safe room. At the time, we did not know whether the bed or the wall outlet had caused the spark.
Later that same day, this same critically ill post-Code patient lost all IV access in CT prior to imaging. I called Roxy to assist with placing new IVs. She came immediately and helped us through a very stressful situation.
This is not the first time Roxy has assisted with our most critically ill patients during acute situations. She has always been an invaluable resource on our unit.
On another event, we were trying to cool a post-cardiac arrest patient for targeted temperature management (TTM). The device we use for this was missing a cord that allows the machine to read the patient's internal temperature. The patient's temperature was over 40 °C, and without this device, the patient likely would not have been cooled quickly enough to prevent further damage.
No one knew how to locate a replacement cord because very few of these devices exist in our hospital.
Roxy coordinated with multiple teams to locate the proper attachment, giving us the ability to treat the patient's dangerously high internal temperature and continue managing the patient using TTM protocols. This would not have been possible without her help and was essential to the patient's safety and improvement in condition.
She is a wealth of knowledge for our staff and deserves recognition for her commitment to our ICU and our nurses.
Roxy reprogrammed brand-new pumps and helped stabilize the patient, and we eventually achieved return of spontaneous circulation. In addition, Roxy coordinated with multiple teams to help address the issue associated with the bed malfunction and assisted with transferring all of the patient's equipment to a new, safe room. At the time, we did not know whether the bed or the wall outlet had caused the spark.
Later that same day, this same critically ill post-Code patient lost all IV access in CT prior to imaging. I called Roxy to assist with placing new IVs. She came immediately and helped us through a very stressful situation.
This is not the first time Roxy has assisted with our most critically ill patients during acute situations. She has always been an invaluable resource on our unit.
On another event, we were trying to cool a post-cardiac arrest patient for targeted temperature management (TTM). The device we use for this was missing a cord that allows the machine to read the patient's internal temperature. The patient's temperature was over 40 °C, and without this device, the patient likely would not have been cooled quickly enough to prevent further damage.
No one knew how to locate a replacement cord because very few of these devices exist in our hospital.
Roxy coordinated with multiple teams to locate the proper attachment, giving us the ability to treat the patient's dangerously high internal temperature and continue managing the patient using TTM protocols. This would not have been possible without her help and was essential to the patient's safety and improvement in condition.
She is a wealth of knowledge for our staff and deserves recognition for her commitment to our ICU and our nurses.
Thank you, Roxy, for your exceptional compassion, advocacy, and dedication to your patients. You truly make a difference.
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