Holiday Gifts for PCT's

[PinkNBlue]

Do you give gifts to your PCT's/CNA's for the Holidays? If so, what have you done in the past? I would like to do something for them as I am so grateful for all of their hard work, especially being shorter staffed. Just looking for some ideas. :) Thanks!

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

What about the nurses each thinking of a couple of days and bringing in a dish to set up in the break room and have a "holiday pot luck" set up for one day breakfast,one lunch and one dinner to get all of the shifts? That way, it is a wonderful token of appreciation, there can be just a bunch of munchies and appetizers, some sweets should someone have a sweet tooth....or even an morning/afternoon/evening tea and muffins, tea and home-made bread, something like that.

[dianec1681]

I made hand scrub for one year, was really easy, pretty inexpensive & enjoyed by the staff. Good luck!!

[Kitsey]

I am a CNA in a LTC facility. Last year our nurse got the 6 of us (all the regulars on her unit) each big bottles of Bath and Body Works lotion and body wash, and a glass snowflake ornament.

This year I am getting the other 5 regulars a mason jar with a pair of socks, pen, nail polish, lip gloss, small star cookie cutter, hot chocolate pack, and lindor truffles. Then I am getting my closest coworker, the one I talk to all the time outside of work, some prismacolor watercolor pencils, but I won't do that in front of the others.

And then this year we are going all out for our nurse, each of us putting in $30-40 for a carton of cigarrettes, chocolate, coffee (for her to take home), cake, balloons, ice cream, lasagna, salad, soda, etc.

I admit I am really feeling the pinch right now, since we will also be doing a baby shower for one of my coworkers next month, but once Christmas is over I'll just have to buckle down and save some $$$.