Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    Med-Surg Negativity

    Ruby Vee replied to jthoma43's topic in Nursing Career

    Med/Surg is a fabulous first job for a new graduate. You are exposed to a wide variety of patient populations -- including some cardiac -- and a wide variety of medications, tests, procedures and...
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    Mistake

    Ruby Vee replied to Marie63's topic in General Nursing

    There's an awful lot of room between "Oh, yeah, that's something anyone could do, don't beat yourself up," and "You deserve to be tried for
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    Advice from experienced nurses please

    Ruby Vee replied to ADN_Is_Complete's topic in General Nursing

    This advice is spot on. One more thing -- doctors are people, too. It's part of developing good workplace relationships to take a minute every time you encounter them for some brief personal...
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    Advice from experienced nurses please

    Ruby Vee replied to ADN_Is_Complete's topic in General Nursing

    You don't sound dangerous or unsafe -- you're learning how much you don't know. Dangerous and unsafe nurses rarely figure that out. I've never lived in South Carolina, but the attitudes you...
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    Advice from experienced nurses please

    Ruby Vee replied to ADN_Is_Complete's topic in General Nursing

    I've lived on the east coast, the west coast, the midwest, the mid-Atlantic region (which I see as east coast, but they don't), New England and Florida. Each part of the country has their own...
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    Honesty on resume, now no job.

    Ruby Vee replied to gumbi_12's topic in Nursing Career

    You didn't get run over by a Mack truck -- you've chosen to put yourself in this position by quitting the first job in less than three months. At this point, your job prospects aren't all that great....
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    HELP!!!!! PANICKING! Career change??

    Ruby Vee replied to rn9687's topic in Nursing Career

    Transferring a month into orientation -- it it's even possible -- will leave a very bad impression. Keep the job you're in, learn as much as possible, and in a year or two you'll be able to transfer...
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    I cannot catch a doggone break

    Ruby Vee replied to TwinDaddy's topic in Nursing Career

    Paramedic really isn't a bridge to an RN license. You don't get any break for having been a paramedic, and someone on this forum started a thread claiming that he's a new RN and interviewers are...
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    Would you be insulted?

    Ruby Vee replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    As a fellow introvert, and with years and years of experience behind me, I can point out that you've been isolating yourself. You're choosing not to interact much with your colleagues, and as a...
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    Would you be insulted?

    Ruby Vee replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    If you're going to grad school and dropping to part time, that is very likely the reason you aren't asked to precept. You aren't invested in the unit. People who are likely to stay are the ones who...
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    Honesty on resume, now no job.

    Ruby Vee replied to gumbi_12's topic in Nursing Career

    I'm not surprised you couldn't handle a fast paced job as a second career RN. Numerous second career RNs whom I've mentored have told me that they have difficulty with fast paced jobs and with...
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    Advice from experienced nurses please

    Ruby Vee replied to ADN_Is_Complete's topic in General Nursing

    The way I read this is that you're a new grad only six months in to your first job. Is this correct? At six months, you're not only still learning the job, your co-workers, time management, the...
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    Capstone Idea

    Ruby Vee replied to freckles23's topic in General Students

    You are going to be doing a lot of hard work on this project, so it is necessary for you to be very interested in the project. What interests YOU the most. We might be able to help you refine it...
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    Mistake

    Ruby Vee replied to Marie63's topic in General Nursing

    I hope that if you had taken ownership of your mistake all those years ago, you would be able to forgive yourself now. But that's water under the bridge. I'm glad you're getting counseling, and I...
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    Social Media and Patients

    Ruby Vee replied to NurseDrizzles's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I never discuss work on social media, and never accept friend request from patients or even colleagues. But my cousin, who is an MA in a small town, notes that half of her patients are already her...
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    Starting Fresh on New Unit

    Ruby Vee replied to Heartonmysleeves's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    People gravitate to people who they believe LIKE them. So the trick is to make everyone feel as though you like them. Recently, I read that the trick to that is to always be the first to say "hi."...
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    Managment is TERRIBLE

    Ruby Vee replied to Wish4goodstaffing's topic in Health, Stress Management

    If I liked the job, I'd wait it out. This DON won't last long. But if I didn't like the job, I'd be looking
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    Case Study: HIPAA violation or not?

    Ruby Vee replied to Allmy?'s topic in HIPAA Challenges

    What's the school's policy on photographs? What is the hospital's policy on photographs? Photographs are often taken of patient's wounds with the express purpose of documenting wound healing. They...
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    Vent

    Ruby Vee replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in General Nursing

    I cannot help but remember the cartoon drawings on every power point presentation our nurse educator ever printed out 3 slides to the page and handed to us . . . . According to research, the patient...
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    Pit Bull Service Dogs

    Ruby Vee replied to RobbiRN's topic in General Nursing

    AWWWW! You gave them dog food! Good for
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    I need my instructor

    Ruby Vee replied to SquatsNScrubs's topic in General Nursing

    Go ahead and approach the instructor. She'll probably be thrilled that someone is interested in offering her students an
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    I think I'm tapping out...I hate nursing :(

    Ruby Vee replied to karenfromfinance's topic in General Nursing

    There are many, many things you can do with an RN and two years of experience. Insurance, community health, clinic nursing, corrections -- the list is endless. Most of those jobs require two years...
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    A year and a half into ICU nursing and still not feeling like I'm getting it

    Ruby Vee replied to salexandra's topic in General Nursing

    You didn't say your colleagues were hateful; you said they were mostly nice but didn't go out of their way to make friends with you. That's different from being hateful. Being kind and welcoming to...
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    How to retain nurses?

    Ruby Vee replied to old&improved's topic in General Nursing

    I once read an article about retention of older nurses -- which surprised the absolute HECK out of me, because it seems that older (more experienced) nurses really are not valued. Basically, there...
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    How to retain nurses?

    Ruby Vee replied to old&improved's topic in General Nursing

    They don't really want to know how to retain nurses -- what they want to know is how they can retain nurses without it costing them