Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

Original Member of the Crusty Old Bat Society

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    The Wage Gap Myth

    Ruby Vee replied to car48's topic in Men in Nursing

    Objectively — each males I had shared paycheck stubs with had several years fewer experience as a nurse. (Roughly five years fewer.) One of the males had prior experience on an oil rig, driving a...
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    Having A Nurse As A Patient

    Ruby Vee replied to SkyDancer77's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Good to be
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    Having A Nurse As A Patient

    Ruby Vee replied to SkyDancer77's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The term is "Crusty Old Bats" as I recall, and I am proud to be one. As far as too damn old to work bedside, I'm still at the bedside, because that's where I want to be. Sadly, though, I think the...
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    You're Right, It Is You: How do I get out of this career please?

    Ruby Vee replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    The "horribleness" of nursing is, I believe, a matter of opinion. I have a job with flexible hours, I work indoors instead of outdoors in 106 degree or below zero weather. I have good benefits, a...
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    I Have Poor Judgment As A New Nurse - Not Sure How To Improve

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

    You've packed a lot into one post. First, you called the physician without adequate vital signs, and you knew your equipment was faulty. You don't really know what her temperature was. You...
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    A Conundrum

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

    Speaking as someone whose mother was involuntarily admitted to geri-pysch, I'm thinking that refusing treatment is not the same brand of self-harm as suicidal ideation. Mom had Alzheimer's....
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    You're Right, It Is You: How do I get out of this career please?

    Ruby Vee replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    When did you
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    When You Receive a Warning at Work

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

    The floor does IV
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    Anxiety Makes Me Want to Quit

    Ruby Vee replied to pucatalia's topic in Nursing Career

    90 year olds die. Especially very sick 90 year olds. I doubt very much it had anything to do with you administering meds through his G-tube. (Even if they were the wrong meds, unless you made an...
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    Having A Nurse As A Patient

    Ruby Vee replied to SkyDancer77's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Not true. Persons who behave like the south end of a north bound donkey make the worst patients, and they can be employed in any
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    Racial Refusals In Nursing

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

    If you live long enough, you will be on Medicare. Think about that for
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    Racial Refusals In Nursing

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

    I felt as you did for a long time. Then a manager explained to me why they accommodate racial refusals. "We don't want to force our colleagues to take care of patients who might have it in for them...
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    New Graduate Nurses Require Support and Honesty, No More "Eating The Young"

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

    Active recruiting of nurses is a good thing -- but so is actively retaining more experienced nurses. I have noticed far more of the former than of the latter. We cannot have good preceptors without...
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    October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

    Ruby Vee posted a topic in General Nursing

    October is Domestic Abuse Awareness Month -- And I’m Aware Nurses Can Be Abusers, Too I’ve been a nurse since 1978. I have also been married to two RNs, both men I dated for some time before...
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    What orders from providers have made you laugh the most?

    Ruby Vee replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Long before I met Dr. ImaFlamingDonkeyButt, I met a first year medical resident whose name was Flaming. (OK -- not actually "Flaming," but close.) When he introduced himself to the MICU nurses for...
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    What orders from providers have made you laugh the most?

    Ruby Vee replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    It was "Dr. Imaflamingdonkeybutt, but you were close. (Laughing out
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    They should be force to retire

    Ruby Vee replied to apnurserock's topic in Retired Nurses

    Crusty Old Bat is a good
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    The Wage Gap Myth

    Ruby Vee replied to car48's topic in Men in Nursing

    It seems pretty clear that the wage gap is not a myth. It seems pretty clear that the wage gap is not a myth. The men (and it seems to be mostly men) are arguing that there is no such thing...
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    The Wage Gap Myth

    Ruby Vee replied to car48's topic in Men in Nursing

    And another thing, because I'm still too angry to sleep . . . A male claiming that there is no patriarchy or misogyny is a lot like a white police officer telling a Black citizen that there is...
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    The Wage Gap Myth

    Ruby Vee replied to car48's topic in Men in Nursing

    I know for a fact -- because I've seen the pay stubs -- that I, a female nurse was paid less PER HOUR than men who had less education, less experience, less experience in the specialty and had not...
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    Are You Working Past Retirement Age?

    Ruby Vee replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    I retired once. Sold my house and almost everything I owned and moved aboard a 36 foot sailboat with plans to sail around the world. Literally. I had the charts and a plan for a Tradewinds...
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    When answering the call... light, that is.

    Ruby Vee replied to ladedah1's topic in General Nursing

    I answered a call light years ago when I was working in the MICU. The patient wanted to tell me that a UFO was landing in our parking lot, and the "little green men" had hovered outside his window...
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    The Wage Gap Myth

    Ruby Vee replied to car48's topic in Men in Nursing

    Wish I could "Like" this a few hundred
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    Burnt out from working night shift

    Ruby Vee replied to CVICURN2021's topic in General Nursing

    The right thing to do is to work those shifts you've already got scheduled. You aren't screwing over your manager if you don't -- do you honestly think she's going to get out of her cozy recliner and...
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    I Know What Abuse Is; I Have Lived Through It

    Ruby Vee posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure almost everyone knows that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. But did you know it is also Domestic Abuse Awareness month? Yes, October has passed, however, we must be aware of both of...