ADVERTISEMENT Roshni Hicks, Serviced Apartment Coordinator FROM PATIENT TO NURSE Inspired by the great care she received five years in remission, she found a job with during a serious health scare in her 20s. Ryman, initially as a caregiver at Hilda Ross Coordinator role came up at Linda Jones, Roshni Hicks made the decision to completely Retirement Village. change her career. Now the Serviced Apartment Unit moment." she says. "Everything was so well at Hilda Ross was a huge wrench. Coordinator Linda Jones Retirement Village. Roshni's the way they looked after their staff." diagnosis with Stage 4 Hodgkin's Lymphoma made her completely reevaluate her life. "It really was touch and go for a while," as the Serviced Apartment Unit Coordinator she is known for at Hilda Ross and now she says, recalling the gruelling 18 months at Hilda Ross. She was also the infection Linda Jones. of chemotherapy of radiotherapy. "But from that time I spent in hospital, particularly during the Covid-19 lockdown, seeing what they do and how much nurses give, that's when I thought I need to do safe because they are so fragile and wouldn't myself. So when the residents come here something in my life and give back what I got cope with something like that. And to keep I know how they feel when they can't do in those two years when the nurses looked the residents safe we have to keep the staff things for themselves. after me so well. So l changed my life around." safe too." Roshni When the Serviced Apartment Roshni decided to take up the challenge even "When I walked in it was like a lightbulb though leaving her residents and colleagues at Ryman Healthcare's organised, with orientation programmes and Now, with a young daughter completing her family. Roshni counts her blessings Roshni qualified as a nurse working in the every day and credits her illness with giving resthome and would work two days a week her the incredible empathy and kindness nine months prevention control officer for the village, "When I see residents in pain or I see a helping to put strict measures in place change in my residents I can feel it because I know, there was a time when I couldn't do "My priority was that our residents are things for myself. I couldn't even shower and originally "They were not those people when they During the nine years of working at were young They were doctors, teachers, had come to New Zealand from her native Fiji to study Hilda Ross, the highlights were being presented nurses, and that's what I see, so I can easily business management at university and had with a kindness award from fellow staff and the see where they're coming from." started out in a management role when she many emails and letters from residents family received her scary diagnosis. She also had a young son who was only and beyond the call of duty. 13 months old and wondered if she'd ever be able to have any more children. Fortunately she began to recover and life. And getting that feedback from relatives for the first time, just saying 'wo're here for immediately signed up to become an encourages you to keep going the extra you' or giving someone a hug, it makes a Enrolled Nurse. In 2012, the year she marked mile," she says. Her answer to calm that fear or relieve members describing how she would go above that stress? "Just holding someone's hand and saying "It gives me happiness and peace knowing it's going to be okay. especially when that I'm making a difference in someone's someone has moved into the care centre big difference." RYMAN PIONEERS It might just be having a coffee or simply going for a walk - most of us find comfort in doing things with others. Our serviced apartment lifestyle makes it easy, with endless opportunities to join in when you feel like it. logethervess One bedroom serviced apartments offer the independence of your own home but with assistance like housekeeping and home cooked meal each day. Priced from $395,000 you can beat the price increase - sign up by 31 March, and enjoy 2020 prices for your new home Call David or Sharon to arrange a viewing LINDA JONES VILLAGE 1775 River Road, Hamilton, 07 853 3382 rymanhealthcare.co.nz RYMAN HEALTHCARE ADVERTISEMENT Roshni Hicks, Serviced Apartment Coordinator FROM PATIENT TO NURSE Inspired by the great care she received five years in remission, she found a job with during a serious health scare in her 20s. Ryman, initially as a caregiver at Hilda Ross Coordinator role came up at Linda Jones, Roshni Hicks made the decision to completely Retirement Village. change her career. Now the Serviced Apartment Unit moment." she says. "Everything was so well at Hilda Ross was a huge wrench. Coordinator Linda Jones Retirement Village. Roshni's the way they looked after their staff." diagnosis with Stage 4 Hodgkin's Lymphoma made her completely reevaluate her life. "It really was touch and go for a while," as the Serviced Apartment Unit Coordinator she is known for at Hilda Ross and now she says, recalling the gruelling 18 months at Hilda Ross. She was also the infection Linda Jones. of chemotherapy of radiotherapy. "But from that time I spent in hospital, particularly during the Covid-19 lockdown, seeing what they do and how much nurses give, that's when I thought I need to do safe because they are so fragile and wouldn't myself. So when the residents come here something in my life and give back what I got cope with something like that. And to keep I know how they feel when they can't do in those two years when the nurses looked the residents safe we have to keep the staff things for themselves. after me so well. So l changed my life around." safe too." Roshni When the Serviced Apartment Roshni decided to take up the challenge even "When I walked in it was like a lightbulb though leaving her residents and colleagues at Ryman Healthcare's organised, with orientation programmes and Now, with a young daughter completing her family. Roshni counts her blessings Roshni qualified as a nurse working in the every day and credits her illness with giving resthome and would work two days a week her the incredible empathy and kindness nine months prevention control officer for the village, "When I see residents in pain or I see a helping to put strict measures in place change in my residents I can feel it because I know, there was a time when I couldn't do "My priority was that our residents are things for myself. I couldn't even shower and originally "They were not those people when they During the nine years of working at were young They were doctors, teachers, had come to New Zealand from her native Fiji to study Hilda Ross, the highlights were being presented nurses, and that's what I see, so I can easily business management at university and had with a kindness award from fellow staff and the see where they're coming from." started out in a management role when she many emails and letters from residents family received her scary diagnosis. She also had a young son who was only and beyond the call of duty. 13 months old and wondered if she'd ever be able to have any more children. Fortunately she began to recover and life. And getting that feedback from relatives for the first time, just saying 'wo're here for immediately signed up to become an encourages you to keep going the extra you' or giving someone a hug, it makes a Enrolled Nurse. In 2012, the year she marked mile," she says. Her answer to calm that fear or relieve members describing how she would go above that stress? "Just holding someone's hand and saying "It gives me happiness and peace knowing it's going to be okay. especially when that I'm making a difference in someone's someone has moved into the care centre big difference." RYMAN PIONEERS It might just be having a coffee or simply going for a walk - most of us find comfort in doing things with others. Our serviced apartment lifestyle makes it easy, with endless opportunities to join in when you feel like it. logethervess One bedroom serviced apartments offer the independence of your own home but with assistance like housekeeping and home cooked meal each day. Priced from $395,000 you can beat the price increase - sign up by 31 March, and enjoy 2020 prices for your new home Call David or Sharon to arrange a viewing LINDA JONES VILLAGE 1775 River Road, Hamilton, 07 853 3382 rymanhealthcare.co.nz RYMAN HEALTHCARE