Blee O'Myacin

Blee O'Myacin BSN, RN

ED, ICU, Heme/Onc

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  1. New Grad ER Vent

    Blee O'Myacin replied to EMTSNA's topic in Emergency

    Our ratio is 4:1 - if there are holds, we have agency in to take care of them in the beds while we do the best we can with stretchers and chairs in the hall. Sometimes we have to start having a PA...

  2. a little knowledge is dangerous

    Blee O'Myacin replied to Agnus's topic in General Nursing

    You had me until the Christmas tree. As mentally ill, non-compliant and possibly abusive she is towards her child, she's entitled to worship or not worship however she pleases.

  3. Pulling Meds for Multiple Patients

    Blee O'Myacin replied to trustsupplyguy's topic in General Nursing

    Just because some clinical instructors are teaching inexperienced students short cuts, doesn't mean that it's a) the proper way of doing things, or b) in accordance with facility policy. With how...

  4. 2nd career nurses, are they happier?

    Blee O'Myacin replied to scastillo1's topic in General Nursing

    "Happier" is a very subjective description. I do think that second career nurses (or any other second career) go into the field excited, but perhaps not as naieve to what is expected of us. Having...

  5. What Patients do to make you mad!

    Blee O'Myacin replied to MichaelFloridaRN's topic in General Nursing

    It's usually the sweet looking LOLs strapped to a backboard after the wind blows their shopping carts on top of them. They try to wiggle out of the backboard (I know, they are uncomfortable) -...

  6. What Patients do to make you mad!

    Blee O'Myacin replied to MichaelFloridaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, take it easy. She was venting on an anonymous forum. This person assaulted her with his own colostomy bag. Even the most "angelic" of us "angels to the afflicted" might feel the same.

  7. How do you, on a Med-Surg floor, get report from the ED?

    Blee O'Myacin replied to cdm.rn2006's topic in General Nursing

    In our ER, we fax the entire computer database to the floor (med/surg and tele patients only - PCU and ICU get verbal report). Then we have to call, touch base with the receiving RN and then we will...

  8. New rules about going online to listen to You Tube!

    Blee O'Myacin replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    It's bad enough that I get the "stink eye" from patient's families and I'm sitting at the desk charting at the computer. I mean, how *dare* I sit for a moment to chart that their precious loved one...

  9. Absolute No-No's

    Blee O'Myacin replied to Drysolong's topic in General Nursing

    i want you to remember this statement when you have an 8 patient assignment on a floor when you are supposed to only have 5, the cna and the unit clerk are out sick with a stomach virus which you know...

  10. Nurses taking patient's off backboards without doctor clearnce?

    Blee O'Myacin replied to the big nurse's topic in Emergency

    It is my understanding that "clearing a patient" would fall under diagnostic medicine and as a RN, it would be outside my scope of practice. If I had a nickel for the amount of times I've had to...

  11. Shabbos/Religious Observances

    Blee O'Myacin replied to texasmommy's topic in General Nursing

    Hi - I would write a letter to the dean to be put into your student file petitioning that the write-up be taken off your record. Once I explained to the Dean that being written up for a legitimate...

  12. Shabbos/Religious Observances

    Blee O'Myacin replied to texasmommy's topic in General Nursing

    Not everyone in Israel is observant - kind of like here in the US - an Israeli friend of mine told me that people would be lining up for the OT offered on the major Jewish Hols. And I agree, I think...

  13. Shabbos/Religious Observances

    Blee O'Myacin replied to texasmommy's topic in General Nursing

    Don't let the "irish" moniker fool you - I had my issues with nursing school and exams scheduled on Yom Kippur and such. I just went through the syllabus with my handy chabad calendar and met with...

  14. Hospital or Hotel

    Blee O'Myacin replied to bubbles64's topic in General Nursing

    And this is why I had 25 out of 32 beds today as "holds" in our ED, with four hour waiting times in the waiting room, the triage nurse wearing ducking the swearing, nasty sick people and the twenty or...

  15. Nursing Uniforms that don't need ironing.

    Blee O'Myacin replied to moomoo111's topic in General Nursing

    The other day it was 3 hours into my shift before I realized that I had candy stuck to my shoulder. One of my daughters must have left a taffy in her pocket. I never iron and I wear the poplin...

  16. Nurse & patient family conflict

    Blee O'Myacin replied to maddcat's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I don't think that any amount of apologizing is going to make it right with this woman. It just wasn't about you. It was about this woman giving up the control of the care of her husband over to...

  17. Calling out Sick on a Holiday

    Blee O'Myacin replied to pirap's topic in General Nursing

    I'd rather not catch strep from you - even if you feel better, you are still contagious for 24 hours. Stay home guilt free and take care of your sick kiddos too. It's not like you are calling out to...

  18. ER Documentation

    Blee O'Myacin replied to smlm1's topic in General Nursing

    We "only" have to write a note on a patient q2h, which is reasonable with 4:1 ratio (usually) and computerized charting (back timing is OK too). But to cover my behind (our hospital is big into the...

  19. Are we adequately treating pain?

    Blee O'Myacin replied to ag01medic's topic in Emergency

    2mg of morphine is like spitting into the wind. Pain is a huge issue in the ER where I work - there are some docs who treat it well and some that are more hesitant. My feeling on this is that it is...

  20. Patients Treat Nurses Like Garbage!

    Blee O'Myacin replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

    When hospital admin gets PR out there so that patients expect hotel-style valet service, and all they get in reality is a tele nurse with a few too many patients and a CNA who has half a floor to...

  21. oh ye uninformed... this is why er nurses "don't care"

    Blee O'Myacin replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    "You call, we haul", indeed... We send people who are non-urgent to the waiting room to be triaged even if they arrive via EMS.

  22. Newbies - Keep an eye on your drunks!!

    Blee O'Myacin replied to CraigBSN02's topic in Emergency

    Wow- as a noob from the ICU down to the ER, I will definately keep this in mind. Glad you found him though, but I am wondering what dark corner of the ER the guy decided to leave a puddle in....

  23. Specialty within the Nursing feild that requires little or no contact with blood?

    Blee O'Myacin replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    Seriously?? I only did a rotation through a LTC facility while in nursing school, but while there was less blood, there was just as much - or more - fluids of an.. excretory nature...

  24. Specialty within the Nursing feild that requires little or no contact with blood?

    Blee O'Myacin replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    Besides what everyone else said with regards to needing a few years of clinical experience before moving away from bedside nursing, there is no escape from all sorts of bodily fluids and such when you...

  25. Will you work during a Pandemic?

    Blee O'Myacin replied to Goju's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And would the government then "take care" of my orphaned children as well as they had "taken care" of me? Or Mr. O'Myacin, who undoubedly would be doing his "civic duty" by putting on his uniform and...