Favorite/helpful AN phrases...

Nurses General Nursing

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Specializes in Oncology, Rehab, Public Health, Med Surg.

i have always gained pearls of wisdom from the posters here. I wish i had written them down

Here's some i do remember...

This is a conversation I'm

not willing to have

Thank you for pointing out** to me. I'll certainly take your POV under advisement

Can you believe you just said that outloud??!

What are your favs?

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Not here, but from an ER doc when I was beating myself up for not anticipating a surgeon's wants/needs/desires.

"It's not our job to prevent surgeons from having hissy fits."

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

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Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

"I get the feeling that you might be hard to work with, you ever get that vibe?"

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

"All bleeding stops.....eventually."

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

"You can't fix stupid"

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

I think I'll go with the person who told me that sometimes in hospice care couples with a dying spouse request privacy for "one last time" That had never occurred to me, but I'm not a hospice nurse. It really changed my outlook as well as being so touching and tear-inducing.

What I tend to remember are the funny things people say like the one who talked about practicing injections on a "mechanical butt".

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A cluster of epic proportions

Defecation occurs

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

"I am ending this conversation because you're being belligerent."

"Do you have any solutions to the complaints you constantly bring up?"

"Did you just say the nurses are stupid, sir? If you really know what you were doing, feel free to take the patient home and provide the care by yourself."

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Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.

"We can treat many things here, but not stupidity"

"I am an RN. This means, among other things, "Refusing Nonsense".

"Life and death are not scheduled"

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Specializes in Oncology, Rehab, Public Health, Med Surg.

These are great. Keep 'em coming!

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"I'm sorry, but the rules DO apply to you, regardless of your status as a Special Snowflake."

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