Ruby Vee BSN

CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching

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Let's Not Forget About Domestic Abuse Awareness
General Nursing

I Know What Abuse Is; I Have Lived Through It

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Do you ask your patients if they feel safe at home? Do you ask them when you are alone with them? Are you prepared for a negative answer?

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Do you ask your patients about their safety at home?
General Nursing

Ask Me If I'm Safe At Home

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Ask your patient if she is safe at home -- even if her husband is handsome and charming, well-dressed and well spoken. Ask even if you know her husband, he's...

60 replies 64,527 views
General Nursing

Domestic Violence: Rebuilding

by Ruby Vee, BSN

October is Breast Cancer month; it is also domestic violence awareness month. As it turns out, breast cancer is not the worst thing to ever happen to me. Here's...

19 replies 11,371 views
How can I have a successful preceptorship?
General Nursing

What To Expect From Your Preceptor

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Not all preceptors are made in heaven; most are downright human. You can still learn from them, though, even if they're not perfect. Here's how --

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Relations

On Negative Feedback

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Negative feedback is something that we all encounter in our lives, both giving and receiving. Neither is easy and most kind people would rather give positive...

56 replies 35,737 views
General Nursing

Don't You Just Love It?

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Don't you just love it when established posters get called out by new members who don't like the answers to the questions they've posted? Especially when the...

42 replies 17,362 views
New Nurse

New Grad/Hate My Job/Life is Miserable!

by Ruby Vee, BSN

After nearly four decades, I still remember my miserable, awful, no good first year of nursing vividly. It was my first full time job, the most responsibility...

94 replies 120,856 views
Relations

The Worst Hospital Visitor I've Ever Seen

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Not every family who visits is there to be supportive of the patient. Some of them are even downright unsupportive. Here are some of the worst visitors I've...

208 replies 153,095 views
Professionalism

Mistakes Are Inevitable: No One Is Perfect.

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Everyone makes mistakes, absolutely everyone. There is no such thing as a perfect person, and since all nursing students, CNAs, LPNSs, RNs, and providers are...

95 replies 78,389 views
General Nursing

About That Avatar...

by Ruby Vee, BSN

It seems to come in waves: new members joining AN and using their own names as user names and their photos as avatars. Although no one truly believes that the...

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What does it take to become a Nurse?
Career Support

For Those Considering A Career In Nursing

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Do you want to be a nurse? There's more to it than a calling. Here are some things to consider.

53 replies 173,347 views
General Nursing

Night Shift For Newbies

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Not everyone LIKES night shift, but all of us can survive it and many (if not most) of us have to work it at one time or another. Here's how to survive.

78 replies 242,812 views
General Nursing

What To Do After You've Made A Mistake

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Everyone makes mistakes. It's what you do afterward that makes you an honorable human being and a good nurse . . . or not.

45 replies 86,629 views
Do you have any waiting room stories?
General Nursing

A Waiting Room Christmas Story

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Alone for Christmas for the very first time, and a stranger in the big city, I learned that city folk and country folk aren't so different after all.

6 replies 10,975 views
General Nursing

CPAP: Tips for Nurses

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Tips for nurses caring for patients with home CPAP machines.

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Are Nurses Mean To New Nurses?
Relations

"Nurses Are So Mean"

by Ruby Vee, BSN

I wish the phrase "nurses eat their young" had never been coined. Thirty some years ago when I was a new grad, the phrase hadn't yet been coined. When I had...

221 replies 96,017 views
General Nursing

A Few Simple Rules For Electrical Safety

by Ruby Vee, BSN

Codes and electrical mishaps aren't really funny -- but if you can't laugh you'll never make it through three decades of nursing. And besides, once you've been...

10 replies 11,789 views