Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    Should I work in ICU before becoming an NP

    Ruby Vee replied to alexamasan's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Med/Surg is great experience. If you aren't looking to be an acute care nurse practitioner, you probably don't need ICU. I would think that ER would be great experience,
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    New Nurse, feeling depressed

    Ruby Vee replied to jellybean570's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think what you're feeling is pretty typical of being a new grad. The transition from student to nurse is a big one, and often it's the first real job you've had. There are professional obligations...
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    What is the longest time you have spent in one position?

    Ruby Vee replied to TinyDancer01's topic in General Nursing

    Fourteen years in one place, then left and moved from the left coast to the wrong coast. Eleven years there. I wish I hadn't left the right job on the wrong coast, but I had good reasons at the...
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    Boomerang Coworkers

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

    I've never been a boomerang employee, but I have worked with several. Some were well-liked before they left and well-liked when they returned. Some were not well-liked either before they left or...
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    New Grad changes Preceptor. Help!

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

    How did I miss that? I caught the ones where she ripped into me, but I missed the flounce.
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    Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

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

    What a tragic event! There was a whole series of errors made, some of them by the nurse who administered the drug. But hers wasn't the only mistake that contributed to the horrible outcome. Since...
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    Verbally Abusing a Nurse

    Ruby Vee replied to Hk30's topic in General Nursing

    What????? You call security if the patient presents a safety concern to others -- staff, other patients, family member, or the patient himself. You don't call security for a patient verbally abusing...
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    Mandatory Vaccination

    Ruby Vee replied to degfnp's topic in General Nursing

    Wearing a mask is about protecting the herd (and the patients), not about stigmatizing the
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    Mandatory Vaccination

    Ruby Vee replied to degfnp's topic in General Nursing

    Nobody is forced to have the flu shot. No one gets chained to a chair and assaulted with the flu vaccine. They can always find somewhere else to
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    Mandatory Vaccination

    Ruby Vee replied to degfnp's topic in General Nursing

    Serious as a
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    Snowflakes

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

    I think that one started on the first COB
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    Snowflakes

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

    While it is true that just because someone is not personally dealing with an issue doesn't mean it's not a real problem for someone else, I have difficulty with "safe spaces" at college. It was my...
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    Would you call in sick?

    Ruby Vee replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    No one is a mistake free human, and I'm the first to admit it. But if this is your attitude toward every colleague with whom you disagree, you may find that your employer spares you the necessity of...
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    Would you call in sick?

    Ruby Vee replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm neither inexperienced nor ignorant, and I understand (and usually have sympathy) for the complexities of the situation. But I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for folks who dislike everyone...
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    Would you call in sick?

    Ruby Vee replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    If you're still on orientation, I can see why your manager is unwilling to work with your scheduling preferences, including the straight 11-11 shift. You have to work with your preceptor. There is a...
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    Would you call in sick?

    Ruby Vee replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    So you're saying that your husband (or someone else you know) would drive you to work and pick you up again so that the commute wouldn't be an issue? Because if you're saying you're unsafe to drive,...
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    Would you call in sick?

    Ruby Vee replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have to agree with this one. If I were your employer -- or the charge nurse who now has to figure out how to cover the shift without you -- I'd be inclined to just tell you not to bother coming...
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    Covering unexpected on-call shifts

    Ruby Vee replied to Daytoe's topic in General Specialties

    It doesn't sound like a desirable position for the newest employees, but it isn't unfair as long as the rule is applied equally to
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    Is there any risks in becoming an Oncology nurse?

    Ruby Vee replied to lindsaymRN's topic in Oncology

    I cannot speak to the fertility risks or risk to an unborn child. I loved oncology for my first four years. In my fifth year, I burned out. All of my primary patients died within a two month period...
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    Should I leave the ICU? New grad

    Ruby Vee replied to tianova's topic in Critical Care

    This sounds like what we called in my day "reality shock." The transition from student to nurse is an enormous one, and the reality of nursing is never anything like what we pictured when we signed...
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    How Much Junk do you Keep?

    Ruby Vee replied to Accolay's topic in General Nursing

    I took mine to the UPS store, a little at a time. The charge was minimal, and after I had burned out two shredders doing it myself, it was worth
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    How Much Junk do you Keep?

    Ruby Vee replied to Accolay's topic in General Nursing

    I got rid of everything that didn't fit on our sailboat and sailed it away. That means the only books I kept were diesel maintenence and navigation
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    Lost 15 yrs of Senority by changing departments

    Ruby Vee replied to Daytoe's topic in General Nursing

    Are you still working for the Department of Nursing? Because in some hospitals, Interventional Radiology is Department of Surgery, or Department of Radiology. In my last hospital, transferring from...
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    I hate my current job and want to work in a hospital

    Ruby Vee replied to nr92's topic in Nursing Career

    Nursing isn't a way to escape changing diapers. I might suggest that you do your own research as to employment possibilities and tuition reimbursement. It's rather disrespectful to demand that...
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    Let go/resign from new grad 6 months in

    Ruby Vee replied to shaza111's topic in General Nursing

    Your first post is long, wordy and confusing. It is difficult to follow and it isn't clear exactly what the problems were that contributed to your termination. I am concerned -- as some of the other...