Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    Brave or just stupid?

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

    Most ICUs won't allow new grads to work part time until they've been on staff for at least a year. They feel it's too difficult to learn the job if you're not putting in the time. Oh, but you're...
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    Brave or just stupid?

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

    Every time I see the header on this thread, I just want to post
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    Question for nurses that are male...

    Ruby Vee replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    My unit is more than 33% male -- of the three backstabbers on our unit, two are male. Of the five or six employees who are known to call off because it's a nice day and they'd rather be outside,...
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    Documenting injection the MD gave

    Ruby Vee replied to SaltySarcasticSally's topic in General Nursing

    Interestingly, since I'm usually a stickler for the rules, I might have documented it as given. Our software has provisions for documented "given by other" and a spot for notes describing the...
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    Why is Med-Surg so hated?

    Ruby Vee replied to Nola009's topic in Medical-Surgical

    What is dosa, mapu, sapu? Hdu = HemoDialysis Unit? Where are you? What is your country's requirement for using
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    Favorite Motivational Quote

    Ruby Vee replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Especially after you've taken the NCLEX a few
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    Why is Med-Surg so hated?

    Ruby Vee replied to Nola009's topic in Medical-Surgical

    In America, it depends a lot upon the size of the hospital. Smaller hospitals have Med/Surg floors; larger hospitals have Medical Oncology and Surgical Oncology, CCU Step-down, Cardiac Surgery...
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    Brave or just stupid?

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

    I'm sure your attitude at work is extremely respectful to those CCRNs you've corrected and to the floor nurses who are likely to "kill people on the regular." Of course it was. Why, you sound like...
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    My coworker was high and got away with it

    Ruby Vee replied to Volley88's topic in General Nursing

    I've got a mental image here of the OP trying to eat a busy body. My eyeballs are
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    Help please

    Ruby Vee replied to Marievaval's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Relax. Set yourself a timeline for when you'll check again -- maybe once every 24 hours? And forget the PVT unless you LIKE the idea of wasting money. I had to wait six weeks for my results to come...
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    New Grad Jobs

    Ruby Vee replied to law2mom2nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not in Boston, so I won't speak to that. What I will say is that if you choose to work in a hospital (and it's a great place to start your nursing career and develop basic nursing skills that you...
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    Choose Your Favorite TV Nurse

    Ruby Vee replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Carol Hathaway from "ER". She got to be competent and advocate for her patients, whereas most TV nurses are caricatures. My least favorite TV nurse (and Boobie Spencer from GH would be a not-so-close...
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    Choose Your Favorite TV Nurse

    Ruby Vee replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Isn't Meredith an
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    Being Gay and a Male Nursing Student

    Ruby Vee replied to RShieldsSN14's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I've worked in some conservative areas, and the only time I EVER saw a gay man get push back because of his preferences was the time the man in question took it upon himself to describe his bedroom...
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    Favorite Motivational Quote

    Ruby Vee replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    "Half the world's population has a below average IQ -- and they all show up in the ER half an hour after the bars
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    Doctors Say the Darnedest Things

    Ruby Vee replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I in CCU and was caring for a patient who had an intra-aortic balloon pump, a ventilator and a few more odds and ends of invasive monitoring. The patient was scheduled for a CABG (in the days before...
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    Doctors Say the Darnedest Things

    Ruby Vee replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I was covering for lunch when the almost brand-new intern (it was the end of July) came in to see one of my colleague's patients. I was in the middle of pushing IV Lasix on one of my patients, so I...
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    Exit interview?

    Ruby Vee replied to turnforthenurse's topic in General Nursing

    Don't say anything that could come back and bite you in the posterior unless you're SURE you really want to burn that bridge. Say you're grateful for the great opportunity you had to learn X,Y and Z....
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    Question for nurses that are male...

    Ruby Vee replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    Just using the word "feminazi" tells me a lot about the poster -- and nothing
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    Brave or just stupid?

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

    You don't know what you don't know. Experience matters. The gap may be closed in a decade, but how much harm will you do to your patients in the mean time? You don't know what you don't know....
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    Brave or just stupid?

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

    If you came here looking for consensus that what you're doing is a good idea, you didn't get it. Yes, you did get some folks saying that they did it and they're doing great. I'm wondering what...
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    Brave or just stupid?

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

    As an ICU nurse who has worked with NPs with no bedside experience, I'm frightened for the patients the OP will encounter, for all of the reasons you
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    Brave or just stupid?

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

    This post deserves to be "Liked" a few dozen times. Unfortunately, I can only like it
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    Does age matters,when planing to become RN?

    Ruby Vee replied to Lovemy3boys's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    One of my orientees was in her sixties when she
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    Dragging hospital communications, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century

    Ruby Vee replied to Rpw3b's topic in General Nursing

    Have you checked with IT to see of there is a way to get those emails on your phone? I'm sure someone will correct me on the terminology, but we recently used a VPN network. Now it's updated to...