Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    Orders from hell...

    Ruby Vee replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen family members trying to "share". I took care of a man in the early 1980s who was waiting for a heart transplant in the CCU. He was big and a rare blood type, so the consensus was that he...
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    Orders from hell...

    Ruby Vee replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    You know, that sounds wonderful. Can we do that in the ICU visitor's lounge,
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    Orders from hell...

    Ruby Vee replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    An ECG to diagnose death, eh. And he didn't make you prove that the leads hadn't fallen
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    Orders from hell...

    Ruby Vee replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    DUH! Yes, I should have thought of that. It just zipped by me. I blame sleep
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    Moving to SC-soon to be new grad and navy wife

    Ruby Vee replied to domo1091's topic in Nursing Career

    I don't know if being a military spouse will help you to find a job. I always found that it was an excellent "reason for leaving your last job." They cannot argue with "Relocated due to husband's...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    Ruby Vee replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    MASSIVE!
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    Don't do the physicians work!

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

    And even then, why don't they fix their own errors from wherever they are when you called to tell them they screwed
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    New BSN vs veteran LPN

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

    Yeah -- I think the difficulty was that they were "bonding" with each other and didn't want to let reality intrude. The most difficult part of that whole interaction was when I went to have my annual...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    Ruby Vee replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I was probably one of the more inept new grads my workplace had ever seen. I'd been there about a year, and I was given not just one but a whole gaggle of nursing students to "teach" for the day. I...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    Ruby Vee replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I once called a physician to pronounce my patient. Since he'd been such a donkey about ordering ABGs every hour (that he wasn't going to treat anyway since she was DNR, and since there was no...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    Ruby Vee replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    You're lucky -- usually they just eat your food, deny it and refuse to reimburse you! I've seen that happen a few times, had it happen a couple of times. One time I caught the intern eating my...
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    New BSN vs veteran LPN

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

    "Old" LPNs are experienced nurses and that means that they know a lot more than a brand new nurse of any license or
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    New BSN vs veteran LPN

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

    I believe that the assumption of jealousy is because the person who assumes it is themselves immature and prone to
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    HELP!?! New in a SICU... already cried... totally terrified

    Ruby Vee replied to jlv613's topic in Critical Care

    As others have wondered, why in the world did you apply for this job if you didn't want to work in a hospital, especially in an ICU? You noted that you're in a class of about 35. With that many new...
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    Orders from hell...

    Ruby Vee replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Here are my favorites: "Dopamine 5 mcg/kg/min forever" "Flower care every 24 hours." (Yes, water and deadhead the patient's flowers.) "Yes I DO want ABGs q 1 hour JUST LIKE I'VE ORDERED THREE TIMES...
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    Orders from hell...

    Ruby Vee replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    When I started forty years ago, people could be admitted to Med/Surg for a week for "work-up". Among the standard orders for "work-up" patients: "Bathe patient before seen by MD" (because some of...
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    Orders from hell...

    Ruby Vee replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, but what is a "tappered"
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    A Nursing student about to graduate and am completely terrified. Anyone else???

    Ruby Vee replied to BlueHearts53's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing school doesn't really prepare you to be a nurse; it just prepares you by giving you the fundamentals so you can learn on the job and understand the rationales for things like sterile...
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    True nursing school struggles

    Ruby Vee replied to Living_True's topic in General Students

    I never had to study in high school -- which was good for high school, because I had a very challenging life in my home of origin. But that meant I didn't know how to study and I nearly flunked out...
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    did I kill my chances of ever working again?

    Ruby Vee replied to pookashellz's topic in Travel

    Two years ago you took a contract with this corporation and left after two months due to an error in communication between you and one of their facilities. Did you discuss with the facility involved...
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    Toxic work environment survey

    Ruby Vee replied to tsunade's topic in General Nursing

    Did you realize that you can make a poll on AN? Or paste a link to Survey Monkey? I looked at your survey and "easy" or "5 minutes" don't account for the amount of scrolling
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    Why are nurse managers jerks?

    Ruby Vee replied to Cola89's topic in Nurse Management

    That answers one question. The more important question is "ARE all nurse managers
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    Family videotaping patient care

    Ruby Vee replied to freckles23's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Or, instead of running around looking for the nurse because Mom is vomiting, pick up the emesis basin that is right there with the clean, damp washcloth beside it and USE THEM TO HELP Mom while...
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    new grad dissatisfied with first job. advice??

    Ruby Vee replied to gmorelle's topic in Nursing Career

    The first year of nursing is difficult -- so difficult that there's even a forum for it on AN. It's going to be difficult no matter where you work, and changing jobs only means you have to start all...
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    Moving to SC-soon to be new grad and navy wife

    Ruby Vee replied to domo1091's topic in Nursing Career

    How are you handling a long distance relationship? You'll want to stay in your first job for at least a year, so if you stay in California, you'll want to stay at least a year. If you move now,...