Nurses Week--What did you get?

GUESS what we got for nurses week?
NOT A THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not even Happy Nurses WEEK!

We got to work overtime!!!!!!!!

I'll trade my rock for your nothing ucavalpn.
Actually it's nice to have a patient mention they see how hard we work, and appreciate what we do for them.It brings me sun shine, on a cloudy day, when it's cold outside, I've got the month of may, come on everyone join in the chorus!

Each nursing unit got a huge gift basket of goodies for each shift - plus some nice "buttons" promoting nurse's week. I gave my staff nurses "stork" badge holders (OB Unit) in a gift bag for each. There were many activities during the week - speakers & pizza luncheons, etc. etc. But - the BEST thing we did...(very spur of the moment -we decided to do this yesterday at 3pm!)- we all dug out our old nursing caps & wore them all day long. We were just intending to have a "retro day" - however - the reaction we got from patients, physicians & other nurses & employees was unreal! People stopped us in our travels to ask about our caps & tell us how it was in the "olden days" when getting your RN cap was a big deal - how interesting it was that every school had a different cap, etc. etc. One anesthesiologist walked thru our unit about 5 times telling us how "professional" we all looked & what respect those caps commanded. Public relations wandered over to get a group photo. Other employees from all over the hospital "wandered" onto OB to check it out. Our Sr. VP of Nursing came to the unit and stayed for over an hour discussing the Nursing profession with all of us & what could we all do individually & collectively to recruit the best & brightest. She was upset that we didn't let her in on our cap day - she would have worn hers! We all sat with her & shared our stories of why we went into nursing - what it really meant "back then" to be a nurse, and how far we've fallen in our own respect for our profession. It ended up with my staff VOLUNTEERING to coordinate Nurse's Week activities next year in order to really capture & commend every nurse in the hospital. I have no doubt that they will come up with some great ideas (they were excitedly discussing it all afternoon). We related our day's events to the 3-11 shift & it started all over again.... they even decided to "borrow" the caps for their shift. I can't wait to go to work tomorrow to hear what reaction they got. We all left work today feeling very "positive" about what we do & why we do it.

Re: Nurses Week, We got pizza one day (if you were there) ice cream one day (if you were there)and a plastic retractable name badge holder with the hosp. logo on it.(I already had one) But it did beat the year we got the leftover Community Challange Hosp. Logo SOCKS !!! ( I personally can't wait for the matching logo underwear) Happy Nurses Week to all!! (good thing we are not in it for the PERKS!)

we got a soft insulated lunch bag, and a
key chain, this is also employee appreciation
week so there will be a huge picnic with
catered barbacue and activities , of course
i'll be working and it's off hospital
property so i'll miss it, we'll get a gift
for that , don't know what , last year it
was watches that quit working for most people
the first week , i like christmas better we
get CASH

We all received a new pair of bandage scissors. We got a fruit basket from the docs and we had a sundae bar.

We got sundaes, if you were working (this was on wednesday),all nurses,CNAs,and secretaries received tote bags with the hospital logo on it, but the nurses all had an IV booklet in their bags with mostly critical care drug info and drip rates etc. There also was a basket of tootsie pops and other hard candy that I assume came from administration.

Greetings! I wanted to share with everyone what I got for nurses week. I got my administration to listen to me!! I was recently made the Acting Nurse Manager on a troubled rehab unit in my facility (LTC). I've worked on other rehab units for 7 years and immediately realized that this unit was going nowhere....fast. The staffing was terrible and everyone was still in the long term care mentality. So, I've been doing research, benchmarking, you name it. Last week I presented my findings to the "Executive Team" and I found out on Thuesday that they had approved another full time nurse on days and another full time nurse for evenings. Now we will be able to do things like patient teaching and proper discharge planning (what a concept!) This was the best thing I could have gotten for nurses week!!