Ruby Vee BSN

Ruby Vee has 40 years experience as a BSN and specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

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   What to Wear When You Age Out of Danskos?

   Ruby Vee posted a topic in Retired Nurses

   I've been wearing clogs since I was a teen — Bastad wooden clogs until 1997, then Danskos. At one point, I had 30-some pairs of Danskos (I lived hear the Dansko outlet.) I'm 70 now, retired for...
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   OG Nurses: How did you use paper charts?

   Ruby Vee replied to Nmichelle's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah, me too. It's not the same place anymore. I'm glad to see it's veering away from the "all the older nurses are bullies who just hate me because I'm young and beautiful" malarky
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   OG Nurses: How did you use paper charts?

   Ruby Vee replied to Nmichelle's topic in General Nursing

   Ya know what? Young'uns don't get to decide whether or not I can call myself a COB. I'm a Crusty Old
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   To Nurses Who Bully: A Message That Needs to Be Heard

   Ruby Vee replied to stop77777's topic in General Nursing

   And there are some who cannot take any feedback that isn't a glowing endorsement of their
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   To Nurses Who Bully: A Message That Needs to Be Heard

   Ruby Vee replied to stop77777's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, and the new young nurses were thought they were being bullied believed it was because the older nurses were jealous of their youth and beauty. (That was a hilarious thread.) Then there was...
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   OG Nurses: How did you use paper charts?

   Ruby Vee replied to Nmichelle's topic in General Nursing

   Crusty Old Bat here: I'm the only person in my unit who has ever worked with paper charts except for that one time there was an IT Oops and Epic was down for most of our shift. The newer folks were...
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   OG Nurses: How did you use paper charts?

   Ruby Vee replied to Nmichelle's topic in General Nursing

   What happened to COB? (Crusty old Bat?). I prefer Crusty Old Bat — I *chose*
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   OG Nurses: How did you use paper charts?

   Ruby Vee replied to Nmichelle's topic in General Nursing

   What's an "OG
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   How Do You Choose a Specialty?

   Ruby Vee replied to Smwill2901's topic in General Specialties

   For your first nursing job, choose a manager, not a specialty. Take the job where the manager is is interested in and supportive of new grads, where the orientation program is structured with a...
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    CCU vs ER

    Ruby Vee replied to gratefultobeanurse16's topic in General Nursing

    My advice would be to pick the one with the best manager, the best orientation program and the most support for new nurses. You'll want to get a good foundation in the basics. You'll *need* to get a...
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    How Much More Can Nurses Take?

    Ruby Vee replied to Erin Lee's topic in Nursing News

    In my 40+ years of nursing, I've been threatened with guns, knives, a machete, scissors, a "police dog," and one guy threatened to "cut off your tits" with a plastic knife. I've been spat on,...
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    Best Scrub Brand and Shoes for New Grads

    Ruby Vee replied to Smwill2901's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Scrubs I don't know about -- my employers have mandated where we must order our scrubs from, what style and color we can wear, etc. Good luck if you have an employer like that . . . they are never...
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    Calling off. When is it too much?

    Ruby Vee replied to Steven Porter's topic in Nursing Career

    Do you come off as an unreliable employee? Probably. One of the beauties of nursing is that you can schedule your movers to come on a weekday (it's cheaper!), request a day off weeks in advance, or...
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    Sexism in Advanced Practice?

    Ruby Vee replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    And I would think they'd be less sensitized to it than us crusty old bats who fought for the ERA . . . remember that? Newer nurses today will often preface a statement by saying, "I'm not a...
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    Sexism in Advanced Practice?

    Ruby Vee replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I think we understood exactly what you meant. "Be quiet; you're just a nurse. And an old one at