Quotes about Contentment, page 83

When management smiles at you, be very, very afraid.

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Staffing will gladly send you three aides - but you have to float two of your RNs.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

As soon as you discontinue the IV line, more fluids will be ordered.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

Mandatory meetings are always scheduled after you've had the night from hell and just want to go home to bed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

You always forget what it was you wanted after you get to the supply room. You always remember when you get back to the other end.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

As soon as you've ordered the pizzas, 25 patients show up at the ER registration desk along with three ambulances all with cardiac arrests!

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

Ten seconds after you have finished giving a complete bed bath and changing the bed, the patient has a giant code brown.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

Your buddies who were reading the paper at the nurses' desk a minute ago always disappear when you need help.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

The better job you do, the more work you can expect to be handed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

Rest assured that when you are in a hurry, the nurse's notes have not been written.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

When you are starting an IV on an uncooperative patient, or dealing with a huge code brown, there is a phone call for you and it's that crabby physician that you have been paging all morning.

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You do the: Just discharged the Patient from Hell dance only to turn around and find the Consultant Neuro-Psychiatrist looking at you like you're their next patient.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

Last thing you want to hear a doctor say is whoops.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

You may not install a car catcher on the front of the ambulance.

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The more equipment you see on a EMT's belt, the newer they are.

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You can't cure stupidity.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

Riding shotgun does not mean you shoot the tires of non-yielding vehicles.

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It's not a compliment when Policemen say you're crude, crass & cynical.

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You've come to conclude 90% of all drunks are a waste of protoplasm.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

You cannot institute a surcharge for unruly or surly patients.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment