Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    Still struggling....

    Ruby Vee replied to RN_EKM17's topic in General Nursing

    This reply struck me as snarky. Different specialties use different abbreviations. Some of the same abbreviations mean very different things in different specialties. Different geographical areas...
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    Looking for advice: I don't like my salary

    Ruby Vee replied to EternalFeather's topic in General Nursing

    The time to negotiate the salary is when they offer you the job. Now, the next time to negotiate the salary is at your first review. Either quit now, or stay for a year or more. But don't stay,...
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    Nursing Intervention

    Ruby Vee replied to Lux Mee's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I guess you had better get working on it then. We don't do your homework for you. We may help with your homework if you tell us what you've done and what exactly you're hung up on. But we don't...
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    Would you hang these IVs?

    Ruby Vee replied to Christina_'s topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    What country are you in? Because in this country (US) a pH of 75 would be an enormous issue! Perhaps your country measures pH differently? These sound like homework questions to
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    Internal transfer telling my boss over the phone a good idea?

    Ruby Vee replied to OncologySANEBABE's topic in General Nursing

    You must have a day off. Come in on your day off to see your manager, and have a nice paper copy of a professional letter of
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    Say it ain't so...........

    Ruby Vee replied to AutumnApple's topic in General Nursing

    Years ago when I was relatively young and completely NOT jaded, I had a patient whose major concern was that the staff mix her cocktail correctly at bedtime. She had a couple of bottles of booze that...
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    I was slapped by a patient

    Ruby Vee replied to FNPStudentLife's topic in General Nursing

    And evidently not all management is useless. The unit where I was working many moons ago had a visitor that brought his "service dog." The dog was an enormous, filthy German Shepherd without a collar...
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    Speciality change, again??

    Ruby Vee replied to RN_EKM17's topic in Health, Stress Management

    If your anxiety is this much of an issue, perhaps some counseling would help. Being nervous, irritable and afraid at work is a common issue among new grads or nurses changing specialties. After two...
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    HELP QUIT NEW GRAD ICU JOB

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

    Honestly, I wish you had asked for advice before you quite your job without notice. You've shot yourself in the foot. You've been working about two months, and you weren't yet comfortable or...
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    Graduate in May need advice as to where I should start.

    Ruby Vee replied to 19Kristin's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It is absolutely normal to feel apprehensive. That normal apprehension is what keeps new grads from killing their patients. Seriously. There is nothing that scares the experienced nurse more than a...
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    I was slapped by a patient

    Ruby Vee replied to FNPStudentLife's topic in General Nursing

    If he wasn't a patient and you weren't his nurse, I'm guessing he would already have been arraigned for assault and battery. So it absolutely *IS* about him being a patient. For far too long, we've...
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    Another Tragedy at Vanderbilt

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

    I agree. I think it's a start down a slippery
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    Adjusting to NIGHT SHIFTS advice??

    Ruby Vee replied to nurse.sierra's topic in General Nursing

    Or just disable your doorbell. A friend of my ex-husband's trained our dog to bark at the sound of a doorbell, despite me frequently and consistently asking her NOT to do that because I worked...
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    Written Up

    Ruby Vee replied to medteleER's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, that's a problem with our software as well. Most of us have chatted with the prescriber about the order before they wrote it or immediately afterward, so we know what they meant and proceed...
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    Adjusting to NIGHT SHIFTS advice??

    Ruby Vee replied to nurse.sierra's topic in General Nursing

    I think there are far more people who WILL not adjust to night shift than those who CANNOT adjust. Almost anyone can, with a good attitude and good habits, adjust to night shift. The only person...
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    Nurse Bullying

    Ruby Vee replied to amanda.sheerene's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    It might be called educating others about easily made and preventable
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    Moving from LTC to the hospital

    Ruby Vee replied to Lovejday1's topic in General Nursing

    I've never worked in a nursing home, but I have precepted (ICU) many nurses who came to us from a nursing home. They all did great. A nurse who worked in a nursing home has the ability to know when...
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    Microaggression, Over Sensitive or Learning Opportunity

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

    These are the kinds of things that just pop out, though. You can't plan them ahead of time. Years ago, when I worked in CCU, we had a nephrologist who was notorious for his nastiness. When we saw...
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    A rock and a hard place

    Ruby Vee replied to Panicsprey's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds like burnout to me. I've been burned out a few times. Sometimes a change of shift will help, sometimes a change to a different hospital in the same specialty or a different specialty in...
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    Nursing fields suited for physical limitations/chronic illness

    Ruby Vee replied to Watki22's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    My main problem with this post is that I can't like it a few thousand times. My other problem is that I didn't say this
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    Nursing fields suited for physical limitations/chronic illness

    Ruby Vee replied to Watki22's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Really? I am a nurse and have been for many decades, but no where in any job description I have ever read does it say I'm responsible for "encouraging and enabling random strangers on the Internet to...
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    Working on weekends!

    Ruby Vee replied to PubSub's topic in General Nursing

    Valuable information for others possibly reading this
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    Sitting down - New nurse looking for advice

    Ruby Vee replied to MgoBlue37's topic in General Nursing

    Oh my. So many things not to like in this post, so few words! I don't recall anyone saying you have to earn your right to sit, but then perhaps my reading comprehension was at fault. What I DID see...
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    Resigning from my job

    Ruby Vee replied to Pmis's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, speak to the manager in person. Try to be the first one to talk to her about this, even if it means coming in on your day off. If you've had a good relationship thus far, she will probably be...
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    New Grad in ICU

    Ruby Vee replied to handersRN's topic in General Nursing

    Your role as a nurse will be different than your role as a tech. One thing to review is the ACLS manual. By EKG, do you mean you can do a 12 lead? Or do you mean interpreting the rhythms? If...