Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

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

    You don't seem to understand that it isn't all about the student. The patients are the ones it's all about. Floor nurses should absolutely not have to take more than one student at a time, ESPECIALLY...
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    Billing new grads for not completing orientation?

    Ruby Vee replied to Pachinko's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds like a fair hospital. I cannot blame them for requiring a two year contract, given that so many new grads abuse their first job by leaving at the first opportunity. Most of them do not...
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    For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

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

    I like leaving notes for my DH in cursive, knowing that the child cannot read
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    Experienced Bedside Nurses Future?

    Ruby Vee replied to nottheproblem's topic in General Nursing

    You've seen
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    Tasks

    Ruby Vee replied to FxLcortes's topic in General Nursing

    Being given negative feedback after making mistakes is not being bullied. When you're new, you WILL make mistakes and if no one is giving you negative feedback there is no way for you to know what...
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    Billing new grads for not completing orientation?

    Ruby Vee replied to Pachinko's topic in General Nursing

    We see so many new grads in my magnet hospital who have no plans to stay in their jobs any longer than the absolute minimum time it takes them to get into anesthesia school. Seeing a few go from...
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    Advice for newbie RN

    Ruby Vee replied to Chem101's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulations on your license and your new job. Advice I wish I'd had when I started: You don't have to like someone to work with them, but it is so much easier all around if they like you. I'm an...
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    Moving for nurse residency program?

    Ruby Vee replied to laura32395's topic in General Nursing

    You are the only person who can answer that question. I moved across the state for my first nursing job and across the country for my second, third and fourth jobs. I was single when I moved to the...
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    Eating Their Young

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

    I understand that you feel you've been victimized and that you seem to need big fat bullies to blame. That does not mean bullies are actually to blame or they are even present. I don't know what...
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    Mistakes Are Inevitable: No One Is Perfect.

    Ruby Vee posted a topic in Nursing Professionalism

    A former colleague of mine, a lovely woman I'll call Lauren, made an enormous and fatal medication error on her first night shift off of orientation. She gave 5 mg. of digoxin IV push-not 0.5 mg. She...
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    New Grad and Getting to know the unit, help? My preceptor never introduces me

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

    It's unfortunate that your preceptor doesn't introduce you, but she probably just forgets that you don't know everyone. Smile as big as you can, stick out your hand, and say "I'm Rassuee, I just...
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    Best tablet/laptop for Nursing School?

    Ruby Vee replied to e.amberly's topic in General Students

    I went through nursing school with a notebook and a few pens. Didn't even have
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    Experienced Bedside Nurses Future?

    Ruby Vee replied to nottheproblem's topic in General Nursing

    I think some managers who lack integrity may be targeting their highest paid staff to shave down their staffing budget, but I don't believe it's a terribly widespread problem. Senior staff tend to...
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    Patient rights violation?

    Ruby Vee replied to Kchaffin's topic in California Nursing

    Can his family provide the disposable
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    CV ICU new grad job question

    Ruby Vee replied to SDSUBSN's topic in Critical Care

    I've never heard of orienting to all of the ICUs, unless it's a new thing. I don't think it's a bad idea, though. You'll be exposed to all of the different ICUs and the people who work there, and it...
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    Burned out and hate nursing

    Ruby Vee replied to RN1023's topic in Health, Stress Management

    ?HUH?
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    For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

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

    It was actually semi-serious. We diagrammed sentences when I was in school -- it was part of English class. My friend, whose grandchildren are in elementary school now says they aren't learning...
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    Unhealthy habits/Facebook posts from friends/family that make you :( ?

    Ruby Vee replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    FaceBook is not worth causing a rift in your real life family. Unfollow them or ignore it. My husband just engaged in a lively "debate" about politics with one of my cousins. Both of them were...
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    Unhealthy habits/Facebook posts from friends/family that make you :( ?

    Ruby Vee replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    I unfollowed a lot of people during the election . . . and while I check in on them periodically to see if it's "safe" to re-engage, the most vociferous among them are still ranting. I've also...
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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

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

    The "preceptor" refused to accept the assignment of precepting. She didn't fail in her assignment. She defended the time her senior student would need -- the assignment that she DID
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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

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

    The nurse in the OP SAID no. Cisabel refused to accept "no" as an answer, harbored a grudge for two years, and then went online to bash that nurse. No one here has forgotten professional integrity....
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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

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

    While I would not DREAM of questioning your reading comprehension, I do doubt that you've read the entire thread. I'm also questioning the clarity of your writing -- this post comes across more as an...
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    Yacker Tracker in the NICU ???

    Ruby Vee replied to Bezoars's topic in General Nursing

    What a great exercise! I'm sure it made an
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    confessions of a RRT

    Ruby Vee replied to yahoomagoo's topic in General Nursing

    Hope you feel better with all that venom off your chest. Everyplace I've ever worked in the last 40 years, relations between nurses and respiratory therapists have been cordial and collegial. I'm...
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    Is not answering the phone for work bad?

    Ruby Vee replied to CedarGirl10's topic in General Nursing

    Don't answer if you don't want to work, and if you do happen to answer, just say no. The "few drinks" comment given a few times makes you sound as though you have a drinking