Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day—But Retaliation Happens Overnight

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Jul 8, 2025
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Woman cowering before workplace retaliation

Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day—But Retaliation Happens Overnight

Tagline: Pivot. Profit. Promise.

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Today, I delivered two folders. Only two.

Not twenty. Not the full list.Just two.

Because some buildings are still locked.Some offices are “secured.”And some systems—especially the ones that harm nurses—are built on delay, denial, and dysfunction.

But I’ve learned something in 30 years of healthcare, 20 years of nursing, and 10 years of public health equity work:

You don’t dismantle injustice all at once. You dismantle it with persistence, policy, and proof.

That’s what this moment is about.

At GE Davis Inc, I am not “pitching programs.”I am delivering evidence—directly to the institutions that claim to care about nurses.

🗂️ I showed up at 313 N. Figueroa to hand-deliver a folder to a health systems leader.

🚫 I wasn’t allowed upstairs.

📎 So I left the folder with security—with proof, a paper trail, and purpose.

Why?

Because retaliation happens overnight.But recovery? Recovery takes a system.And if the system won’t build it, I will.

Here’s What’s in That Folder:

A 6-step, nurse-led model to prevent psychiatric overreach
A Letter of Intent demanding partnership—not pity
A call to stop labeling job injury as mental illness

Because every time a nurse takes FMLA for job-related stress and gets labeled “unstable,”Every time HR refers burnout to psychiatry,Every time a Black RN is sedated instead of supported—

📉 The system creates liability.📉 The system violates federal law.📉 The system erodes its workforce from the inside out.

To the administrators reading this:If you’re using mental health as a shield from accountability, you are complicit.

To the nurses still inside:You are not broken. You are not alone. You are evidence. Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day—But Retaliation Happens Overnight and we can help.