Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Ruby Vee replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    And the irony is that most of those nurses who declared it "isn't worth my life" to drive to work will somehow discover a bastion of courage when it comes to getting
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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Ruby Vee replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    How
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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Ruby Vee replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    Somehow I doubt that nurses would be the first to day not to leave your home in bad weather. All too many of us have been stranded at work for 16-24 hours because our relief didn't leave their home...
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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Ruby Vee replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    Essential personnel includes nurses, too. Or who did you think was going to take care of those hospitalized
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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Ruby Vee replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    I hope that if you become a nurse, you aren't forced to work 24 hours straight during a snowstorm because your relief decided not to bother trying to come to work. Because their car has bald tires,...
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    Magnet behind nurses station?

    Ruby Vee replied to Pharmahaulic's topic in General Nursing

    That would be my
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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Ruby Vee replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps because she cannot be trusted to return the car in decent
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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Ruby Vee replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    And yet there were those of us who had farther to drive and who made it to work anyway. My employer offered beds in Pre-op, Post-op and on several floors. I thought I was lucky to get a guerny in...
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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Ruby Vee replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    I think I
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    Anyone having a hard time getting over the verbal abuse?

    Ruby Vee replied to kayleeschiff's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I've frozen out of sheer shock. We all have. But I don't think there was anything particularly shocking in the communications you describe. One of the ways you get over it is to reframe your...
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    Punitive culture

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

    It depends upon how much you like your job: your colleagues, the patient population, the commute, the pay and benefits. If you're otherwise happy where you are, keep your head down and ride it out....
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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Ruby Vee replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    Did you ask if any of your friends or coworkers who are closer to your work would let you stay with them? Did you ask if any of your coworkers who live near you could give you a ride to work? Or did...
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    OCNRN63

    Ruby Vee replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

    I hope it was peaceful. She will be
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    Lack of "customer service" as beneficial factor for chronic disease process?

    Ruby Vee replied to KatieMI's topic in General Nursing

    If the patient doesn't understand that his/her healthcare dollars are paying for HEALTH CARE rather than a luxury accomodation, it IS
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    Nursing School Probs

    Ruby Vee replied to nurseboy12396's topic in General Students

    Here's the thing. You never know what someone is going through or has gone through when they're dealing with someone too sensitive to handle nursing school or the nursing unit or their first job or...
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    Visitors who stay overnight. Vent.

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

    I hope you feel better. I just wonder what makes you think you can determine when someone is "unnecessarily causing pain" and when someone is doing something necessary that is unfortunately causing...
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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Ruby Vee replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    And I'm still not sure why you didn't consider just putting chains on your car. Bashing posters for not being compassionate enough reeks of entitled attitude. If you were expected at work, you were...
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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Ruby Vee replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    I wasn't born with money -- we didn't have indoor plumbing or electricity until I went to college. I didn't get to choose that, either. However, at 20 I had a safe car that I bought used. (No one...
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    Is Dialysis nursing good for a brand new RN

    Ruby Vee replied to proudRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I think hospital experience as a new grad is a better long term bet than going straight into dialysis. Do a search for one of the multiple threads on surviving and thriving on the night shift -- or...
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    New Grad - General Surgery vs Cardiovascular Surgery

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

    As a new grad, you have so much to learn that it probably doesn't matter that much where you start. What will matter is friendly, supportive colleagues, an orientation that is planned out as much as...
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    Baby Nurse in Progressive Care Unit

    Ruby Vee replied to nurseg112's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    The ACLS manual will be a good place to start, and you'll probably have to get ACLS certified at some point anyway. It covers rhythms, emergency drugs, emergency protocols and stroke recognition....
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    Landing a job with an ADN?

    Ruby Vee replied to JRMfutureRN's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    ADNs are preferred in some settings. Less likely to quit within two years to go to anesthesia school or become an
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    Discouraged and Frustrated new nurse

    Ruby Vee replied to manicas's topic in Medical-Surgical

    All first jobs are like this; and it does get better. At about the one year mark, something will "click" and you'll start feeling comfortable in your job. When you're comfortable, you may like it....
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    Are these yellow flags or red flags?

    Ruby Vee replied to RNingaround's topic in Rehabilitation

    Paper charting isn't in vogue these days, but it isn't that difficult to learn. As I understand it, most places will be forced to go to EMR at some future date, and you would be in a great position...
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    need someone to answer few questions for me regarding nursing

    Ruby Vee replied to carlarenee02's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I suspect that your assignment might be to actually TALK to someone. Try