Nurses Week--What did you get?

angels2c · May 16, 2001

My administrator gave us all $50 this year. It was up from $25 last year. Both years I bought my nurses plants and balloons. We really go all out for CNA week.( The nurses, activity dept, and social service dept). We plan something for every day, and for every shift. The end of the week we round it off with parties and gifts for all of our great CNA's.

heartsmartnurse · May 16, 2001

Gosh, compared to some of the others, I guess our hospital done pretty good. All nursing staff received a nice polo shirt with the hospital logo on it. We also received a large umbrella, free lunch, sundaes, and door prizes for hospital week. I got all my staff a candle holder with candle,a nursing gold pin, and book mark with the nurse's prayer on it. They got me a very nice leather Liz Claiborne purse. All in all, I must say this was a very nice Nurse's Day compared to some we have had in the past. :rolleyes:

Clweedrn · May 17, 2001

As RN's we are in job action here due to contract negotiations. I am RNABC work place representive. We had planned several actives which included all our nurses. However, our chief nursing officer sent out a memo that all nursing week activites were cancelled due to the RN job action. We were not consulted. Many of our nurses found this to very offensive and demoaralizing.

rosy · May 17, 2001

Hi All,

I work for a small and extremely rapidly growing telehealth company. I think nurse's week would have gone unnoticed except one of our nurses took it upon herself to coordinate activities. We had two daily drawings for gift certificates ( one for nurses, one for non-nurses) Bagels, fruit and Juice on Monday. A catered nurses dinner on Tuesday, cookies and milk on Wednesday, Potluck on Thursday, and Endorphins(chocolate) on Friday. Our administration was great about footing the bill for the prizes and nurses dinner, and really appreciated that someone was willing to put it all together.

At the nursing home where my mother lives, a family member (also a nurse) brought brownies for the staff.

Maybe next year we should think about what we can do for each other for Nurse's Week and not what should be done for us. :)

ubcnme · May 17, 2001

For nurses week, on Wednesday a pharmaceutical co. held a FREE lunch at Sirloin Stockade for ALL the area nurses that could attend and it was great! There were nurses from all over town! Our so-called administration didn't recognize nurses week either, but our clerical staff managed to pool their hard-earned money (they make less than half what we do) buy us each gifts and have a potato bar luncheon on Friday for us! We loved the thought that was put into this and we had just done practically the same thing for them on secretaries day; I suggested that next year we have a staff appreciation day in lieu of these two days. A lot of people thought this was a good idea. Also, our clerks in our CD department got each CD nurse a teddy bear with a nurses cap and balloons attached to it; how nice was that?! All in all, it was a great week!

Huganurse · May 17, 2001

Great idea Rosy!!! Any ideas out there? Parties, potluck, gift exchanges, helping hands?

I think it would be great if we could have a huge event that all nurses were invited to attend for different cities or areas to celebrate nurses week.

sWolfie · May 17, 2001

We got a pen, and a choice of a button or a t-shirt. They are having something everyday this week for everyone, including the public. I work third shift, so we more or less got nothing from this. That's ok though, we are use to getting to the short end of the stick.

Happy Nurse's Week!!!

fiestynurse · May 17, 2001

This post is like a bunch of kids discussing what they got for Christmas. You call yourselves professionals! Grow-up!!

Overland1, RN · May 17, 2001

Gee, I guess I better give back the Mercedes.......

bellap · May 17, 2001

All we got was Happy Nurses Week from the greeters at the information desk. They also decided to combine National Hospital Week with Nurses Week so we got double nothing!!

All we got (if you chose to stop by at a table was a pen and a pin to wear for Hospital week. YIPPEE!!! Guess we are all so really appreciated!!! How disappointing!!! :confused:

muffie129 · May 18, 2001

For Nurses Day, we were told by our VP, that we were "nothing more than BLUE collar workers", AND "very replaceable".( our hospt joined in to bring 400 Philippino Nurses to Maryland).

I said that MY collar was rainbow...brown for poop, yellow for urine, green for vomit, red for blood...

NurseAllen · May 18, 2001

Originally posted by feistynurse:
This post is like a bunch of kids discussing what they got for Christmas. You call yourselves professionals! Grow-up!!

This is not about what we got, NONE of us do our job for the freebies. This is about how Nurses are respected by the places that they work. How appreciated are we on our day? How does it recognize Nurse Appreciation Day to reward the whole hospital? It's like giving a man a Mother's Day present. If it's not your day you shouldn't get anything.

At my hospital we were rewarded with 1 6foot hero and a 12 pack of Coke for the entire hospital on the night shift - NO JOKE! (this is a large suburban hospital) All the employees were given umbrellas with our logo on it. There were heroS ice cream and cake for the day people (the cafeteria closes at 5p) And on my unit our manager had bagels for breakfast and a deli catered lunch for the 7a-7p shift and we on the night shift were given.....the job of cleaning up the day shift's mess. Due to staffing cuts we no longer have a housekeeper at night. And because the day people were so busy partying - the night people got slammed with 11 admits that night!! Happy stinking Nurse's Day!

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