Nurses Week--What did you get?

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.

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.

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!

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!!!

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

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

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!!!

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...

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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