Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    What Do You Love About Nursing?

    Ruby Vee replied to Allison007's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing has been an interesting, challenging career where I know that I have made a difference in people's lives. I have enjoyed flexible scheduling, solidly middle class pay, excellent benefits and...
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    CA RN moving to Hawaii - HELP!

    Ruby Vee replied to localgirl85's topic in General Nursing

    You might get more answers if you post on the Hawaii forum. I clicked because I thought you had general questions on moving, finding a new job or starting in a new
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    Eating Their Young

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

    The difficulty is with all of those special snowflakes who honestly believe that not being asked to lunch, being reprimanded for a legitimate reason, someone not saying hi to them, being fired for...
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    For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

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

    Recess.
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    Why working just 3 days a week is exhausting

    Ruby Vee replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    Somehow, I don't think the author is older than us,
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    Feeling Forced to Stay Late?

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

    So it's better to leave vulnerable patients alone while you merrily clock out? That is abandonment and will get you (justifiably) terminated from your job and possibly an investigation by a licensing...
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    "Nurse Bedside Shift Report" Survey

    Ruby Vee replied to kangoshichie's topic in General Nursing

    I know it's poor form to quote a long post in its entirety just to say something like "I agree", but this is such a well-reasoned indictment of bedside report that I couldn't begin to know where to...
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    Why working just 3 days a week is exhausting

    Ruby Vee replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    Working three 12 hour shifts can be utterly exhausting, this is true. It should not incapacitate you for the rest of your life, however. It's just a job. Go home from your shift (every shift) and...
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    Not confident in some nursing skills

    Ruby Vee replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

    If you're not using certain skills in your current job situation, they will get rusty. That's OK. When you take another job where you need them, they are easily relearned. Plus, as an experienced...
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    Eating Their Young

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

    What an angry video, what a brittle, angry
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    Critical thinking

    Ruby Vee replied to coconut3431's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    First off, it seems you are talking about critical thinking rather than critical care. If I read you right, you're in LTC. Critical care is quite different. I'm sure that if you ask your post to be...
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    Maternity leave length dictated

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

    Although, as the OP noted, the manager can always find some other "reason" to let the OP
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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

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

    We have no one's word but Cisobel's that the older nurse was rude, snarky, disrespectful or impolite. Cisobel does not seem to be a reliable
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    For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

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

    People use a lot of phrases that they obviously don't understand. But that one makes me grind my teeth as well, and was in one of the three posts that started me off on this rant in the first place....
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    For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

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

    Thank
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    White Scrubs and That "Time of the Month".

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

    Double up with tampons and pads. Or a Diva cup with pads. Check with your PCP -- if your periods are that heavy and you're not trying to get pregnant, some forms of birth control pills will make...
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    Games to teach students about Alzheimers/or memory loss

    Ruby Vee replied to St. Brendan's topic in General Nursing

    I honestly can't think of a way to make that fun. Funny, yes, but not fun. When my mother was in her early stages of Alzheimer's we used to laugh and joke about her "stupid moments". Some of those...
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    Embarrassment after a med error

    Ruby Vee replied to NrsngStudent7's topic in General Nursing

    Everyone makes mistakes; absolutely everyone. No one is perfect. Everyone who passes meds has made a medication error. Anyone who tells you they've never made a medication error is either lying or...
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    "Nurse Bedside Shift Report" Survey

    Ruby Vee replied to kangoshichie's topic in General Nursing

    My facility supposedly went the way of bedside report years ago. Over the years it has evolved AWAY from the bedside. Instead, we give a computer-side report and finish up at the bedside to...
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    For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

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

    Beverage
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    Eating Their Young

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

    It is pretty great! We just lingered too long too far north! (Although I understand that the snow goes pretty far south this time.). My cousins back home all think we're
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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

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

    And the overall tone of your last few posts has been impolite. Criticizing someone for impoliteness in the course of a rude post is a bit hypocritical. No one here is disputing that we all have a...
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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

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

    And it is unclear to me that the floor nurse was NOT polite. I do not believe that Cisabel is an accurate reporter, and she certainly has a grudge against that nurse -- a grudge that she has been...
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    Eating Their Young

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

    Surrounded by high snow drifts here, too. Our "front door" is a hatch cover on the cabintop that slides open and two 2-foot high companionway doors that open outward. The snow has drifted to the top...
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    For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

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

    How about "tow the line"? I read that one in a newspaper! (OK, it was the online version of a newspaper, but really!) It is "toe the line." As in having our toes on the