Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    What Is The Most Disrespectful Thing A Colleague Has Said To You?

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

    How rude! I wonder if she realized how rude she had been, or if she was a
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    nurses who are bad patients

    Ruby Vee replied to Mr. Murse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This was probably the best description of good and bad patients on the
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    nurses who are bad patients

    Ruby Vee replied to Mr. Murse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A "bad" patient is someone who is demanding ("I want some more ice -- the ice you gave me is too cold. And a diet soda, but not ginger ale. I know that's all you have on the unit, but I'm a nurse...
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    A listening ear is also a running mouth.

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

    Your approach does not appear to be working for you. You brought it to this forum. Why not try to follow some of the excellent advice you've been
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    "NETY" and Other Fallacies

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

    If they told you that nurses eat their young, they were wrong. If they merely mentioned the the idea and then encouraged you to think for yourself about it, or cautioned you that if you're looking...
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    Bad management

    Ruby Vee replied to Jen4nursing's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It is possible to communicate effectively in writing using your cell phone. Unless I'm sitting in Barnes & Noble (which I am now, on my iPad) or Starbuck's, I do all of my internet on my phone....
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    Bad management

    Ruby Vee replied to Jen4nursing's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree that the writing style is problematic, as is the "dries and drabs" of information. Communication is very important in nursing, and the OP does not communicate effectively in writing -- at...
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    showering: before or after work

    Ruby Vee replied to peachypurple's topic in General Nursing

    Before work to wake up, after to clean
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    AN is the nice part of the internet

    Ruby Vee replied to JerseyTomatoMDCrab's topic in Nurses Rock

    Carly had mellowed out considerably by the time we threw our TV into the landfill. What has Sam done to bring your ire. (I can think of so many things.). I haven been out of the loop since
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    Bad management

    Ruby Vee replied to Jen4nursing's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    From an outsider's point of view, it sounds as though you threatened the CNA with a physical altercation when you yelled at her that you were going outside. That might not have been your intent,...
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    Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    Ruby Vee replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oncologists rarely actually run codes. That's what oncology nurses are for. Of course, I've worked most of my forty years in teaching hospitals. I might be appalled at what's out there! I had a...
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    Getting so busy and forgot to notify the charge nurse about a small med error

    Ruby Vee replied to georgya3's topic in General Nursing

    People have been trying to give you some helpful advice. Everyone who wrote did so because they thought they could offer you some insight. You don't seem to want to take any advice that isn't what...
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    Getting so busy and forgot to notify the charge nurse about a small med error

    Ruby Vee replied to georgya3's topic in General Nursing

    That bothered me, too. That and the assertion that it was "a small error." Nothing with narcotics is "a small error." The OP minimizes and justifies her error and her failure to notify the charge...
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    How to react nicely if a patient asks for your social media acct?

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

    I haven't been asked to Friend someone on FB but have been asked for my address or phone number to "keep in touch". I always smile and say that I wish I could, but that would violate hospital policy...
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    Bad management

    Ruby Vee replied to Jen4nursing's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You think your management was trying to get rid of you due to gossip from co-workers? What did your manager actually SAY to you? Did they describe what your transgressions were or what you needed to...
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    Wow, I really have to take this class?

    Ruby Vee replied to missnursingstudent19's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Ballroom dancing. It was part of the phy-Ed
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    "I work in the medical field"

    Ruby Vee replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    One would think this would make sense, wouldn't one. Oftentimes, however, they make something
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    My two cents.

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

    It's a
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    One thing i dont understand(at the nurses' station)

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

    Six pages of replies . . . I think it got plenty of
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    "I'm a nurse!"

    Ruby Vee replied to applesxoranges's topic in Emergency

    I worked with a 300 pound male respiratory therapist years ago. He had guns, dogs and a sign on his front door that said "Day Sleeper. Please do not ring doorbell." One day while he was sleeping,...
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    "NETY" and Other Fallacies

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

    Your teacher was wise. When one person uses the term "respect", they may mean the basic courtesy and kindness one human owes another, in the absence of evidence to the contrary. (One might argue...
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    Getting so busy and forgot to notify the charge nurse about a small med error

    Ruby Vee replied to georgya3's topic in General Nursing

    You haven't shared anything that reaches the standard of bullying or abuse. Perhaps your charge nurse is too new at charge to have a clear vision of the role, or perhaps she's letting you develop...
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    Getting so busy and forgot to notify the charge nurse about a small med error

    Ruby Vee replied to georgya3's topic in General Nursing

    I can believe the OP has been a nurse for 20 years . . . She may have "worked" 20 years at a job where her co-workers did the heavy lifting for her and never managed to develop as a nurse. She still...
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    Getting so busy and forgot to notify the charge nurse about a small med error

    Ruby Vee replied to georgya3's topic in General Nursing

    Chiming in to say that no one ever solved their time management issues when others keep jumping in to "save" them. And jumping in to save someone over and over gets old after
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    Getting so busy and forgot to notify the charge nurse about a small med error

    Ruby Vee replied to georgya3's topic in General Nursing

    It actually does appear as if you're justifying your medication error and your failure to report it to the charge nurse. Your back injury has nothing to do with it. If you were working under the...