Ruby Vee BSN

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

Ruby Vee's Latest Activity

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   Having A Nurse As A Patient

   Ruby Vee replied to SkyDancer77's topic in Relations

   Good to be seen!
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   Having A Nurse As A Patient

   Ruby Vee replied to SkyDancer77's topic in Relations

   The term is "Crusty Old Bats" as I recall, and I am proud to be one. As far as too damn old to work bedside, I'm still at the bedside, because that's where I want to be. Sadly, though, I think the attitude that we're irrelevant and disposable becau...
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   You're Right, It Is You: How do I get out of this career please?

   Ruby Vee replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

   The "horribleness" of nursing is, I believe, a matter of opinion. I have a job with flexible hours, I work indoors instead of outdoors in 106 degree or below zero weather. I have good benefits, a stable job and the flexibility to move anywhere in t...
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   I Have Poor Judgment As A New Nurse - Not Sure How To Improve

   Ruby Vee replied to uniteddemclub's topic in New Nurse

   You've packed a lot into one post. First, you called the physician without adequate vital signs, and you knew your equipment was faulty. You don't really know what her temperature was. You don't report vital signs unless you know (or have reas...
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   A Conundrum

   Ruby Vee replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

   Speaking as someone whose mother was involuntarily admitted to geri-pysch, I'm thinking that refusing treatment is not the same brand of self-harm as suicidal ideation. Mom had Alzheimer's. Her special brand of crazy at that point in her Alzh...
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   You're Right, It Is You: How do I get out of this career please?

   Ruby Vee replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

   When did you retire?
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   When You Receive a Warning at Work

   Ruby Vee replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   The floor does IV KCl?
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   Anxiety Makes Me Want to Quit

   Ruby Vee replied to pucatalia's topic in Career

   90 year olds die. Especially very sick 90 year olds. I doubt very much it had anything to do with you administering meds through his G-tube. (Even if they were the wrong meds, unless you made an egregious error. As for egregious errors -- you are ...
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   Having A Nurse As A Patient

   Ruby Vee replied to SkyDancer77's topic in Relations

   Not true. Persons who behave like the south end of a north bound donkey make the worst patients, and they can be employed in any industry.
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    Racial Refusals In Nursing

    Ruby Vee replied to TheCommuter's topic in Relations

    If you live long enough, you will be on Medicare. Think about that for awhile.
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    Racial Refusals In Nursing

    Ruby Vee replied to TheCommuter's topic in Relations

    I felt as you did for a long time. Then a manager explained to me why they accommodate racial refusals. "We don't want to force our colleagues to take care of patients who might have it in for them because of their race, or who might go out of thei...
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    New Graduate Nurses Require Support and Honesty, No More "Eating The Young"

    Ruby Vee replied to symondsbl's topic in New Nurse

    Active recruiting of nurses is a good thing -- but so is actively retaining more experienced nurses. I have noticed far more of the former than of the latter. We cannot have good preceptors without good, experienced nurses and experienced nurses wh...
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    October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

    Ruby Vee posted a topic in General Nursing

    October is Domestic Abuse Awareness Month -- And I’m Aware Nurses Can Be Abusers, Too I’ve been a nurse since 1978. I have also been married to two RNs, both men I dated for some time before marrying them. And both were abusive. I’ve worked wi...
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    I stalk RubyVee on allnurses. shes a COB with common sense and a heart.

    • Apr 13, 2022
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    What orders from providers have made you laugh the most?

    Ruby Vee replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Long before I met Dr. ImaFlamingDonkeyButt, I met a first year medical resident whose name was Flaming. (OK -- not actually "Flaming," but close.) When he introduced himself to the MICU nurses for the first time, he introduced himself as "Call Me D...