Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    Come to work or get fired-Hurricane Irma!!!

    Ruby Vee replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    LTCs do it, hospitals do it, and any other business that expected to operate 24/7/265 does it. Law enforcement does it. Show up. Or get fired. (If you get fired, prepare to explain over and over...
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    Hurricane Irma: Are per diem nurses USUALLY required to work during a hurricane/disaster?

    Ruby Vee replied to justSara's topic in General Nursing

    In a major snow event, you leave early and allow plenty of time to get to work. Or you go to work before it starts. You plan ahead, much as nurses in hurricane prone areas do. This "it's not worth...
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    Ruby Vee replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    The thing is, even if patients are Evacuted, someone has to get them prepared, get the paperwork in order, call the accepting facility for bed assignment and with report, answer the phones, notify...
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    Ruby Vee replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    Even folks who are in nursing "for the money" have the personal integrity to show up when we are needed -- just like we said we would when we accepted the
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    Ruby Vee replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    WOW!. Just WOW!. You never work Friday or Saturday, so I take it you're willing to go to work on Sunday?? No, wait. That really would be risking your life. So someone else should work for you??...
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    Ruby Vee replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    We all have hearts. Some of us think that the OP should have planned ahead as she probably was told when she was hired. If you wait until the last moment and then claim ignorance, people will think...
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    Ruby Vee replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    For the love of heaven, how could you possibly have NOT known it was coming? Waiting until the night before and then claiming it's all news to you is
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    Hurricane Irma: Are per diem nurses USUALLY required to work during a hurricane/disaster?

    Ruby Vee replied to justSara's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, this idea is all too common these days. You're supposed to be already AT work before it gets too ugly out there to travel
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    Hurricane Irma: Are per diem nurses USUALLY required to work during a hurricane/disaster?

    Ruby Vee replied to justSara's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen plenty of nurses sign up to go to Houston to help out for NO pay other than the ride on the private plane chartered to take them there. They were told they'd be sleeping on cots, eating in...
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    Seniority

    Ruby Vee replied to lexyrn71's topic in General Nursing

    Clearly you've never seen a system where peer interviewers "Decide who is the best candidate based on their interview and the responses they give." Unless the peer interviewers are completely...
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    Seniority

    Ruby Vee replied to lexyrn71's topic in General Nursing

    And I believe I addressed career advancements by saying that seniority was not the best qualifier (at least not all by itself) there. As a tie breaker, definitely. The OP was describing a system...
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    Seniority

    Ruby Vee replied to lexyrn71's topic in General Nursing

    Ageism is alive and thriving on allnurses.com! Seniority is a fair way to decide who gets to go to day shift, have preference in holiday scheduling, float, take mandatory overtime or get that...
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    Ruby Vee replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    It's entirely possible that they told the OP, she filled out paperwork about hurricane plans and even signed it but still didn't realize that SHE would actually be expected to work. After all, she has...
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    Ruby Vee replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, that one got me, too. Is it possible she's
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    Ruby Vee replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    Before Irma was even a named storm, we've been watching it develop. We've known for days that it was coming. Why haven't you already figured out that your child would need to be taken to a place of...
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    Ruby Vee replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    And all employees who accept jobs with hospitals, nursing homes and any other 24/7 facility should have their own disaster plan in place that they can execute well in advance of when they'll be needed...
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    Ruby Vee replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    You live in an area that has hurricanes, you've accepted a job with 24/7 staffing requirements, and your husband apparently has as well. So why haven't you discussed prior to this evening what the two...
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    How do you deal with the conflict in nursing school?

    Ruby Vee replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Students

    Oh good Lord. You're out of high school, aren't you? Why is this one student so important to you? Let it
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    Hurricane Irma: Are per diem nurses USUALLY required to work during a hurricane/disaster?

    Ruby Vee replied to justSara's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting that nurses are volunteering to fly down to Houston to give the nurses there a break after Harvey -- but folks in Irma's path believe that they're exempt from helping out because they're...
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    Hurricane Irma: Are per diem nurses USUALLY required to work during a hurricane/disaster?

    Ruby Vee replied to justSara's topic in General Nursing

    What does having only one car have to do with anything? It's not like you'll be leaving work to pop over to Panera for lunch or anything. The safest place for your car is out of the path of the...
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    Time to remove the "nurse" in APN?

    Ruby Vee replied to Jedrnurse's topic in General Nursing

    The "appropriate" level of experience for admission to an NP program used to be five years. It's an arbitrary number, but it seems to have generated a generation of stellar nurse practitioners....
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    Bullying Doctors

    Ruby Vee replied to Breathing16's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Why would you even WANT to bounce one-liners off an already annoyed or irritated physician? It's not going to make anything better and will likely make things worse. If it's a one-off, just shrug...
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    Bullying Doctors

    Ruby Vee replied to Breathing16's topic in Health, Stress Management

    What does this even mean? Nurse practitioners who had several years of experience at the bedside before going through a good NP program aren't disrespected in my experience. Those who do the BSN to...
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    It's not my job to pray with you.

    Ruby Vee replied to kickatthedark's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Spiritual patients FARE better? That's good news for spiritual folks. It's still not my job to pray with anyone. So I sincerely hope that they have family or friends or even a member of their...
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    New Nurse, New Job, Feeling Dumb

    Ruby Vee replied to aimee32907's topic in First Year After Licensure

    There is nothing scarier than a new nurse who is confident but not competent. The lack of self confidence is what prevents new grads from killing their patients. I'm all for nurses lacking...