Favorite sayings

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What are some of your favorite sayings, cliches....

Just one I thought of or heard recently...I'm ..."like jello...hard to nail down".

Specializes in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine.

Bacteria: The only culture some people have

Not the sharpest tool in the shed (or brightest crayon in the box)

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person

If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it

If a dementia patient tells you the sky is purple, it's purple

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

if it stinks, trust me it stinks.

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Specializes in Healthcare risk management and liability.

When everything is going well:

Things are ginger peachy!

When everything is not going well:

This is indeed a sticky wicket.

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Specializes in Registered Nurse.
Bacteria: The only culture some people have

Not the sharpest tool in the shed (or brightest crayon in the box)

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person

If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it

If a dementia patient tells you the sky is purple, it's purple

I made the mistake (because I was busy and not thinking) of telling my sundowning patient to never mind the item that she was concerned about. She then decided I was a demon. No reestablishing the relationship for the rest of the shift. Thus, if it is purple, it is purple...true!

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shozoly when I'm frustrated instead of uttering a profanity

I like it! I think I'll need to adopt it. All of my friends' kiddos are getting big enough to possibly start repeating what Auntie Purp Purp says.

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It's a DSP (dayshift problem)

Bats#!t crazy (As in, that pt is ...)

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Specializes in Pediatrics/Developmental Pediatrics/Research/psych.
When pigs fly.

I think it's the mental image more than anything.

But as all my [emoji298]️HP[emoji298]️ fans know, pigs do in fact fly. Pig is the owl, right?

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.

Bats#!t crazy (As in, that pt is ...)

I used "bat guano crazy" just last night, as a matter of fact!

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

loony bin

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And this too shall pass...

Put on your big girl panties and deal.

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**** rolls downhill...

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

The best things in life are free

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