Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    Emotionally unbalanced supervisor?? Please help!

    Ruby Vee replied to Cola89's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm thinking there's more to this story. Please take some time to think about whether you are, as Tricia J suggested, bringing your best self to this job. You may have already burned your bridges at...
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    Forced to resign after 7 weeks

    Ruby Vee replied to porkdumpling's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Although I've never thought of it in this way, you're right. Although I suspect both parties are fervently hoping it will work
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    Forced to resign after 7 weeks

    Ruby Vee replied to porkdumpling's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I suspect the preceptor was looking for evidence that the orientee had assessed the location, duration, intensity of the pain as well as any exacerbating or mitigating factors. "My throat feels like...
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    Forced to resign after 7 weeks

    Ruby Vee replied to porkdumpling's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think saying you wanted to look for a different opportunity after seven weeks is going to make the OP look somewhat unstable. Not what management is looking for, I'd
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    Forced to resign after 7 weeks

    Ruby Vee replied to porkdumpling's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have to second this. There are stupid questions, there are stupid ways to ask legitimate questions that makes them sound like stupid questions. Defending this as "my inquisitive learning style" is...
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    Denied PTO for my marriage

    Ruby Vee replied to ryuunohime's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The nurse is supposedly a professional and should have initiated a collaborative discussion about solutions rather than just assuming that her special plans trumped everyone
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    Don't be an Autobot

    Ruby Vee replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Please use the quote function so we all know to whom you are being
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    Don't be an Autobot

    Ruby Vee replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    The totally satisfied health care consumer is a dead health care
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    Don't be an Autobot

    Ruby Vee replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    It's a thing. I find it insulting, as a nurse, to be given an artificial script to use. As a patient, I find it insulting to be fed these scripted phrases by someone who is clearly just parroting...
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    Falsifying documentation

    Ruby Vee replied to jigi888's topic in General Nursing

    You have no idea what is going on behind the scenes, nor should you. If management is dealing with this nurse, it's a confidential matter between management and the nurse involved. Management cannot...
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    Falsifying documentation

    Ruby Vee replied to jigi888's topic in General Nursing

    When you talk to the nurse, describe what the patient told you and what you found. When you talk to management, describe what the patient told you, what you found, and your conversation with the...
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    Falsifying documentation

    Ruby Vee replied to jigi888's topic in General Nursing

    Put on your big girl panties and talk to the nurse about it
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    Denied PTO for my marriage

    Ruby Vee replied to ryuunohime's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Work-life balance is a great thing, but food on the table and roof over the head comes first! EBP is just the buzzword for what we've been doing all along, and "huddle" means communicate with your...
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    Denied PTO for my marriage

    Ruby Vee replied to ryuunohime's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If the OP has worked there nearly two years, I cannot understand why the vacation policy was apparently news to her. I can't imagine starting ANY wedding planning without ensuring that I could get...
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    Unhealthy habits/Facebook posts from friends/family that make you :( ?

    Ruby Vee replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    Your first paragraph is unclear -- are you saying that you disagree with others of your generation and younger generations who believe it is correct to lock your phone without giving the code to your...
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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

    Ruby Vee replied to Cisabel's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The nurse doesn't need her actions excused. We have Cisobel's word for it that the nurse told her right up front that she could not accommodate Cisobel because she already had a nursing student. As...
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    For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

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

    You taught me something new today -- well, OK, you reminded me of something I had forgotten.
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    What to do with a bf who just wants me for my degree

    Ruby Vee replied to mstaurus2016's topic in General Students

    The OP has had a long term and problematic relationship with her boyfriend, with whom she shares a child. She discovered on his phone texts to his buddies in which he made clear that he is interested...
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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

    Ruby Vee replied to Cisabel's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It is one thing to have multiple students at about the same level following you and quite another to have a senior student preparing to graduate and another student on her very first day of clinical....
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    Feeling VERY Incompetent

    Ruby Vee replied to kyfitch's topic in General Nursing

    This is a very nice summary of questions and how to (or not to) ask them! Thank
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    Feeling VERY Incompetent

    Ruby Vee replied to kyfitch's topic in General Nursing

    Ask questions. Ask lots of questions, but please don't ask dumb questions. There is, contrary to popular belief, such a thing as a dumb question. Instead of asking "What's the number for X-ray...
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    Feeling VERY Incompetent

    Ruby Vee replied to kyfitch's topic in General Nursing

    If you're constantly changing jobs because everyone you meet is a bully, perhaps you need to take a look at what YOU are bringing to all of these jobs. If you meet one jerk, they're a jerk. If...
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    Feeling VERY Incompetent

    Ruby Vee replied to kyfitch's topic in General Nursing

    I can't speak to the difficulty (or ease) of finding work in Michigan, but someone has done you a huge disservice by convincing you that there are bullies everywhere and you'll be lucky not to be...
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    Has anyone been through a divorce during nursing school?

    Ruby Vee replied to Hurleysnow33's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I got married in nursing school and went through a divorce during graduate school. It was difficult, but necessary as my ex-husband was abusive. Can you support yourself and your child if necessary...
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    Should I feel guilty not picking up shifts after I had my wisdom teeth extracted?

    Ruby Vee replied to mstpeter's topic in Nursing Career

    Stay home until your planned return to work date. Do not feel guilty. You're not even obligated to answer the phone. I hope you feel better