Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    Colleagues Waiting for me to Fail and Quit

    Ruby Vee replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    It may not seem like it, but your colleagues probably haven't wasted any of their energy hoping that you're going to fail, quit or mess up. In fact, I'm fairly sure NO ONE wants you to mess up,...
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    Verbal order-Denied by resident

    Ruby Vee replied to Traumamama02's topic in Emergency

    As you become more experienced, or work in more acute areas, you will find yourself pulling meds to be administered by another nurse, or begging another nurse to "pull some Ativan for me, please on...
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    Catholic Nurse Sues Duke University Hospital After Refusing to Assist with Abortions

    Ruby Vee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    As a Catholic, I'm ashamed of her. If one doesn't wish to partake in abortions, one shouldn't take a job where such a thing is expected. But I know of no teachings that say Catholics should avoid...
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    Should I go to the interview?

    Ruby Vee replied to JR2017's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I'd go to the interview. It's great practice in interviewing for when there's a job you really want. And if it's awful, just think what a great story it will be to share on one of those "Worst...
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    Tension with Management

    Ruby Vee replied to NeuroNurse101's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I am sorry you felt that way. I put a good bit of thought into addressing your concerns and trying to explain why things might be going the way they are. I put some time into typing out a response....
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    Does years of experience matter?

    Ruby Vee replied to ProfessorD's topic in General Nursing

    I was going to chime in and say the same thing, but you said it
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    Posting resident info on Facebook

    Ruby Vee replied to FashionablyL8's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Yes, it was a HIPAA violation. Jane could lose her job and be assessed large fines. In this day and age, it is profoundly stupid to mention anything about your job or even where you work on social...
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    Metal worker needs MRI

    Ruby Vee replied to Pachinko's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Not a metal worker, but I've had a very uncomfortable ER visit in the past when I had metal fragments in my eyes. My PCP ordered an X-ray to clear me for MRI. I have no research to cite, only my own...
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    New Nurse on a stepdown unit! Extreme lack of confidence! What to do?

    Ruby Vee replied to newnurseme9999's topic in General Nursing

    Everyone goes through this; you're just paying your dues to get experience. I got through my first year because I had a husband to support and not succeeding was simply not an option. I didn't have...
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    Should I stay or should I go?t

    Ruby Vee replied to monolithwolf21's topic in General Nursing

    If you move away from New York now, would you be able to support yourself (or would you have the support of family and friends) until you were established in a new job? Or would it be better to take...
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    Best way to quit for a new grad?

    Ruby Vee replied to Pistachio830's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    It seems to me that not getting your full time hours is a great reason to resign. In fact, that's why you started looking for a new job in the first place. So use that. Before you give notice,...
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    Tension with Management

    Ruby Vee replied to NeuroNurse101's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    You've only been working in your present job for nine months. A year is probably the minimum for a new nurse to transfer to ICU. There is no reason why the ICU would want to hire a new grad with...
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    New grad overwhelmed in ICU

    Ruby Vee replied to novicenrs's topic in MICU, SICU

    The feeling of being overwhelmed does go away -- but it takes time. The first year of nursing is pretty awful, and you have to GO through it to GET through it. I remember crying on the way to work,...
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    13 months left...quitting due to mental health, is that stupid?

    Ruby Vee replied to CardiacRNLA's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I think too many new nurses rush to the NP route because they're unhappy at the bedside without realizing that the first year is miserable and very few folks are actually happy the first year no...
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    RNs Don't Help CNAs

    Ruby Vee replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I have never worked anywhere that the CNAs were overworked to the point where they didn't get to take their hour lunch and their 15 minute breaks. I have never worked anywhere that the CNAs didn't...
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    Why nurses don't want to talk to a ward psychologist?

    Ruby Vee replied to manjar's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses aren't going to seek psychological help from a colleague -- just not done. No one wants their peers -- or their boss -- to know that they think they need some psychological help. You would be...
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    Am I too small to be a nurse?

    Ruby Vee replied to Sbhayes09's topic in General Nursing

    If you truly believe that we don't demonize overweight nurses, you haven't been reading AN for very long. Suggesting that overweight nurses shouldn't BE nurses seems to be the last bastion of...
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    Seasoned ICU Nurse Lacks Critical Thinking

    Ruby Vee replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Or caring for an elderly parent with dementia issues? Or a young grandchild? Perhaps she has undiagnosed sleep apnea? Other medical issues? A husband who requires assistance with ADLs or some...
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    What is a Super Users?

    Ruby Vee replied to khaleesi123's topic in Nursing Informatics

    YUP. Still a nurse on your unit, only you're an expert about your "thing." You will find that people seek you out when they have questions about your "thing", and sometimes, you won't know the...
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    NOC Shift & Your Health

    Ruby Vee replied to Future-NurseRedHeart's topic in General Nursing

    Night shift supposedly causes obesity, diabetes, breast cancer . . . . If you work night shift for forty years, you may wind up with obesity, diabetes, breast cancer -- of course working for forty...
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    Clog sizes

    Ruby Vee replied to pbnjs's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Sanitas, like Danskos, are hand made. That means that there are individual variations in shoes -- one size 38 pair may fit you about the same as a size 37 or 39 pair. The best thing to do is go into...
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    Gift for Preceptor

    Ruby Vee replied to Joelle66's topic in General Nursing

    The best gift is a sincere note about how she's helped you -- and shoot an email to her boss about what an awesome preceptor she
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    Old New Grad w/ 4 weeks orientation

    Ruby Vee replied to shakeela1027's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You have been a nurse for a year. You know about paperwork -- that it needs to be done, it needs to be done by you and within the appropriate time frame. You know how to talk to patients, to...
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    Quitting first RN job

    Ruby Vee replied to hnwarden's topic in Nursing Career

    So if you quit your job now and accepted a different job, you will have only five months at that job before you're moving away? After quitting two jobs in such a short period of time, you're not...
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    Starting as a New Grad RN in a Level 2 Trauma ED at Cleveland Clinic Monday

    Ruby Vee replied to ED_RN52's topic in Emergency

    It is normal to have nervous butterflies whenever you start a new job, return to work after a lengthy medical leave or when you're starting a new clinical as a