I'm sorry! I just noticed you want to do this for nurses! I thought it was a fantasy question! lol Your ideas are great! I can tell you that where I work fresh fruit goes really fast because we rarely get it...most patients give candy, so we seem to really crave the fruit when we get it. Bagels are always a hit, too. Or just fresh baked cookies, breads and cakes. There was one unit in our hospital where the students got the nurses a basket full of things they could use somehow, like pens, highlighters, etc...and some stuff I thought was great, like those Shout wipes to take stains out of your scrubs, like spilled coffee? That could get pretty expensive though. Good luck, very nice of you to do this!