Nurses Week--What did you get?

imaRN · May 11, 2001

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!) :)

samrn32 · May 11, 2001

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

willie2001 · May 11, 2001

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

Huganurse · May 12, 2001

We were served special fancy cakes today from mgt. Then our therepy department brought us bags full of goodies and made sure there was one for each shift. Oh, and a huge tray of cookies, there were also brownies but not sure where they came from. I was off yesterday and heard they've been doing things everyday and including everyone!The docs have also brought in gifts and goodies for the nursing staff. We are also celebrating Hospital Week. This has been a far cry from the years I got nothing or very little like many of you posting here.

Doey, BSN, RN · May 12, 2001

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.

ComicRN · May 12, 2001

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!!

huladoula1 · May 12, 2001

OK....now since my unit is in charge of "Nurse's Week" celebrations for next year - I'd like to pool this valuable resource to get your ideas. What activities would you like to see happen during Nurse's Week?

nurse T · May 15, 2001

I work for home health and hospice. Our director had us write down how we made a diff. in one or two of our pt's lives. One of my patients agreed to an interview with a local paper and our story made front page. It was neat. Plus I got scissors, lotion, a subscript. to RN mag, a bookmark, and ice cream. It was really nice.

Jo_deye_yuh · May 15, 2001

First off- HELLO ALL and Happy Nurse's Week!

I was on vacation during 'Nurse's Week', but when I returned to work, I found that my name was drawn to receive a COFFEE MUG, also my DON gave each nurse a pretty pen with an angel on the clip. Also, I received a beautiful card from my mother-in-law!

Health and Blessings~ Jodie

john william · May 15, 2001

got a nice little pin!

Home Health Columnist / Guide · May 15, 2001

ComicRN:

Kudos to you for recognizing a problem and taking action and that the executive team listened!!! Those patients are lucky to have you as their nurse. Hope you can find the staff now and that all will work together.

Enthusiasm is contagious. Best wishes for you in your new position.

Listening + action=reward :)

Smitty,RN · May 15, 2001

During Hospital Week there were activities every day of the week- icecream served by administration, 50's day- we could even wear jeans!, BBQ, our gift was a huge canvas bag.

Nurses Week we have an annual celebration at the local Holiday Inn- with a live band, good food and nice door prizes (tickets for theme parks, massages, wine baskets. The next day everyone wore their nursing caps- (the ones that actually got nursing caps) I was off- and this is the first year we did that, I thought it would be corny, but everyone seemed to enjoy it. Our administratin also entered all of the nurses names in a drawing the American Heart Association had and they had some nice prizes. I didnt win anything, though!