Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    Applying for a job listed as FT but u need PT?

    Ruby Vee replied to xxdiscoxxheaven's topic in General Nursing

    Apply, but make it clear how many nights a week you can work right from the start. I managed to work full time (every weekend) while I was in graduate school, but your milage may
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    Classmate Spilled Coffee On My Laptop - Broken

    Ruby Vee replied to waterdrifter's topic in General Students

    And be more protective of it next time -- no coffee near your laptop. Or liquid of any
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    New BSN vs veteran LPN

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

    Hostility, OK. But how do you know someone is "jealous". Do they announce this, or do you just presume they're jealous because they're hostile? Perhaps they were hostile because you were being a...
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    Don't do the physicians work!

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

    Well
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    Don't do the physicians work!

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

    I'm sorry that this is your experience; it hasn't been mine. Nor has it been my experience that "nurses do all their work." I think perhaps these negative statements say more about the person who...
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    Why wasn't I placed in the ED?

    Ruby Vee replied to shan_elle's topic in Emergency

    Well said: "Watch your mouth and be professional because you never know who may be listening OR who they'll share it
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    Confused

    Ruby Vee replied to jenal77's topic in Emergency

    We all want that magical preceptor who will gently mentor and guide us, standing ever close so we don't have to hunt for them but far enough away we don't feel them breathing down our neck. We want...
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    Confused

    Ruby Vee replied to jenal77's topic in Emergency

    With respect, Cinderella, new grads aren't usually good at what they do. They need mentoring, teaching and guidance. I've met some new grads (most, actually) who are good learners, good...
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    New grad RN challenges

    Ruby Vee replied to jbRN27's topic in General Students

    Realize that no matter how comfortable and confident you are, it takes approximately two years to BE
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    What does your nursing career repair bill say about you?

    Ruby Vee replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    I wish I would have started saving for retirement earlier -- with my first paycheck would have been a good time. I wish I would have managed my workplace relationships better. Coworkers are just...
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    Don't do the physicians work!

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

    I once had a physician lie about giving a verbal order and say he never gave it. Fortunately, I had a witness (the attending physician of another service). My manager put a photo of the physician on...
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    Confused

    Ruby Vee replied to jenal77's topic in Emergency

    I agree with the "license on the line" chant. It often seems to me to be an excuse the posters offers up to justify doing what they were going to do anyway -- quit their job, usually. I agree that...
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    Classmate Spilled Coffee On My Laptop - Broken

    Ruby Vee replied to waterdrifter's topic in General Students

    I wondered about this myself. I don't allow open drinks on the table at home where I work with my laptop -- if someone sets an open drink down, I move it or I move the computer. In a coffee shop,...
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    How do you handle the stress?

    Ruby Vee replied to LopSided's topic in General Students

    Stress management isn't anything we ever discussed in my BSN program, although that was decades ago. I remember my instructors telling us, in essence, to just suck it up. Nursing is tough. Get...
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    How can I, choose the right preceptorship placement

    Ruby Vee replied to Iamslumping's topic in General Students

    You may not have much control over your eventual preceptorship placement. Accept your placement with grace and vow to learn as much as possible. Wherever you end up, there is much to be
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    New grad RN challenges

    Ruby Vee replied to jbRN27's topic in General Students

    Nursing school doesn't do an adequate job of preparing students for professional workplace relationships. When you are new, you will make mistakes; perhaps even a lot of mistakes. That means that...
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    Patient called me idiot WWYD?

    Ruby Vee replied to 321Ken's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Let it go. It doesn't make sense; it doesn't HAVE to make sense. Patients sometimes don't make sense. Some patients rarely make sense. Calling you an idiot is a very mild offense. Read the pages...
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    Advice, Please?

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

    If you didn't do it, just say so. Say it calmly and professionally. The patient and her family made an unfounded complaint, so it has to be investigated. Sometimes, the vigor of the investigation...
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    In desperate need of advice...being bullied at work.

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

    Nor did I see any bullying in the original post. Negative feedback and hurt feelings do not equal bullying. Anyone who is new in a job will make mistakes, we all make mistakes. Of course someone...
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    Don't do the physicians work!

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

    You are rude and dismissive of people who disagree with you, angry about what you perceive as "unfairness" re: physicians and seem awfully fixated. Perhaps step back from the computer until you've...
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    Don't do the physicians work!

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

    You don't believe that part of your job is advocating for your patient? Then you're not doing your job. Keeping the sick alive is a collaborative process between multiple health care disciplines....
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    Don't do the physicians work!

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

    With respect, the discipline physicians do or do not get, like the discipline nurses do or do not get is confidential. We don't get to know about it unless they choose to share. As for who directs...
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    Don't do the physicians work!

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

    I work ICU, and most patients have them. They still have to be reordered every 24 hours. Just one of the things we address on rounds. AND the physician has to write a note about why the Foley is...
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    Funniest/strangest dementia patient stories

    Ruby Vee replied to Angie O'Plasty's topic in Nursing Humor

    Projectile stool? The image is staying with
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    Gel Nails

    Ruby Vee replied to er.mere's topic in General Nursing

    THIS is the hill you want to die on? Challenge hospital policies if they're unsafe for the patient. If new evidence suggests that Foleys left in place longer than your hospital's policy lead to...