Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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    Family videotaping patient care

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

    The family is dealing with their mother's loss -- both the loss of the independent person they knew and the coming loss of her life. That's no excuse. But it isn't personally directed at you....
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    Preceptor burnout

    Ruby Vee replied to QuarterLife88's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What apparently so many people have difficulty comprehending is that even if a nurse DOES say no, they will wind up being forced to precept anyway. If you're at work and there are more orientees or...
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    Packing tips for travel nursing...

    Ruby Vee replied to Wolf at the Door's topic in Travel

    Oh good Lord. It's a far cry from saying that one has never regretted having a printer to saying that everyone needs to carry one. I enjoy having a printer with me because I walk everywhere and...
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    Magnet vs. Closer to home

    Ruby Vee replied to pleasenocdif's topic in General Nursing

    The "Magnet" designation wouldn't mean anything to me in choosing a place to work. But I'm an ICU nurse -- I like sicker patients. I commuted farther for a job in a tertiary institution where the...
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    I did a Google search, and my RN information and a bunch of other things are there?

    Ruby Vee replied to rumwynnieRN's topic in General Nursing

    When I registered to vote in Florida, the form asked for my email address and warned that if I chose to give it, it would be public. I guess I should Google myself just to see what's out
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    5 Weird Questions Patients Have Asked As An OB Nurse

    Ruby Vee replied to JanineKelbach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am so sorry for your disability. It most be horrible to have been born without a funny
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    Texting While Working

    Ruby Vee posted a topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I recently flew to the midwest to visit my mother (in a nursing home with end-stage Alzheimer's, but that's a different topic) and the last leg of the journey was in a very small aircraft over...
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    5 Weird Questions Patients Have Asked As An OB Nurse

    Ruby Vee replied to JanineKelbach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    OOOOH! We're so glad you're here to remind us about helping people in their time of need and not looking down our noses at some of the (incredibly stupid) questions we
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    Ever experience violence at work???

    Ruby Vee replied to aoguagha's topic in General Nursing

    I filled out the survey -- now can we share stories? I had just started my shift when the nursing supervisor, my manager and the risk manager showed up on my unit asking for a SICU bed for a staff...
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    Is nursing school really "the hardest thing you've ever done in your life"?

    Ruby Vee replied to cn4207's topic in General Students

    Getting married is difficult but joyful, getting divorced is difficult in another way. I would think that getting divorced while pregnant and caring for a toddler (or a teenager) and selling your...
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    Is nursing school really "the hardest thing you've ever done in your life"?

    Ruby Vee replied to cn4207's topic in General Students

    Nursing school was difficult, but not the most difficult thing I've ever done. Here's the thing: you're standing at the beginning and looking at the entirety of nursing school and from where you're...
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    Classmate Spilled Coffee On My Laptop - Broken

    Ruby Vee replied to waterdrifter's topic in General Students

    Castigating another poster because you don't like their post is a futile and ultimately nonproductive thing to do. You don't like the opinion and/or the way it was presented. I get that. But it's a...
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    What should I do - Abusive Instructor

    Ruby Vee replied to neuron's topic in General Students

    And what, exactly, made you believe that there was a bad instructor in the
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    What should I do - Abusive Instructor

    Ruby Vee replied to neuron's topic in General Students

    Oh, good Lord! I see a lot more red flags in your posts than in the posters you are actually (yes you are) attacking. Please catch a clue and look at the little number in the upper right hand...
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    What should I do - Abusive Instructor

    Ruby Vee replied to neuron's topic in General Students

    It does not indicate her attitude toward her patients, but your posts do indicate your attitude toward colleagues. Please learn to play nicely with your team members. Do it the teacher's way now and...
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    What should I do - Abusive Instructor

    Ruby Vee replied to neuron's topic in General Students

    Oh, how interesting. Right off the bat with the "You lack compassion and won't respond to patients in a professional way." And then with the "don't respond to my posts". Once you post something and...
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    Clinical: having THAT nurse

    Ruby Vee replied to SRN2018's topic in General Students

    She's a nurse, she's
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    Hmm...that's nice

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

    just to be on the safe side, please check your facility's policy (the actual written policy) on this. I've worked in many parts of the country, and every facility I've been in has
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    A good start to my new job

    Ruby Vee replied to AvaRose's topic in General Nursing

    You're the new person, so yes, you have to make the effort. The current staff members have been working together for months or years; it's up to you to fit into their workplace. It's not up to them...
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    New BSN vs veteran LPN

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

    The fact that the new BSN felt like she was being inappropriately "chewed out" in front of a patient does not really mean that the LPN actually chewed her out. If the LPN actually DID chew her out,...
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    New BSN vs veteran LPN

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

    Great way to ensure that the OP never fits in to her workplace. "Education" of an experienced nurse by a newbie never seems to have a desirable result (for the newbie). And about this jealousy...
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    New BSN vs veteran LPN

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

    Without knowing what the "evidence based" practice was or what the OP was about to do to her patient, we don't know that the LPN was being unprofessional. It could be that "chewing her out" was the...
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    New BSN vs veteran LPN

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

    Perhaps the LPN was unprofessional for criticizing a brand new BSN in front of a patient -- and perhaps she was merely trying to get the OP to stop doing whatever she was doing before she harmed a...
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    New BSN vs veteran LPN

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

    First, you're being very disrespectful of the LPN. LPNs are nurses, too, and they're our colleagues. "New BSN vs. Veteran LPN" shouldn't be an issue. You're on the same team. Second, there's...
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    ED Pay vs Med/Surg Pay

    Ruby Vee replied to trumley's topic in Emergency

    Not only is it not a thing in the midwest, but it's not a thing in any of the hospitals in which I worked in Washington State, nor is it a thing in any of the hospitals I've drawn paychecks from on...