What would make you feel appreciated on the job?

i would appreciate the supervisor, nm, don to have my back when/if receiving complaints.
these people have known me for yrs:
and know my standards of care, my abilities and my work ethic.
have my back, believe the best in me and even fight for me if need be.
loyalty and trust will reap much happier employees.

leslie

An occassional honest thank you is nice. However, here are the things that make me feel appreciated:

When management listens to what I am c/o and does something about it. If they can not do anything about it tell me. I am a big girl I can take honesty.

Respect me as a professional by asking for my input when changes need to be made that will affect my job. I may have some good ideas that will improve patient care since I am working as a floor nurse.

Please keep the little gifts because I do not need them. Personally, I would like to see that money go for better equipment for resident/patient care.

These are just a few thing that would make me feel appreciated on the job.

That's so true- same thing with lunches.

Wow! That's awesome. That sure would make me feel better about showing up next time after such a rough day.

A few thoughts:
1. Scheduled 15 minute breaks
2. A 30 minute lunch break
3. Treat us with adult respect, not like children. Don't talk down and think we'll look up.
4. Don't "rule" with an iron fist. Most don't respect that sort of manager.
5.approve vacation time.
6.ask where the "issues" are and what we , as a team, can do to improve them. Those in the trenches know what the problems are and often know the answers to fix them.
7.ask for both sides of a story prior to writing anyone up. Just because a doc complains doesn't always mean he is right or even telling the truth. If needed ask others who were witnesses.
8. Don'tmake employees feel like they have to call in "ill" to get much needed time off (funerals,weddings, family members who have surgery or are very ill,etc.) because if it is that important to them they won't be there anyway. Just approve it and figure how to deal without that person since you will have to anyway.
9.look for the good in the employee and thank them (personally, not by e-mail)
10. Lead by example. You will get what you give.

Hey, now my question related to your question... why YOU need to fell that you are appreciated? Make you to fell better? If you know your OWN value, you don't need any feedback from any one... that is not counting to much...with or without appreciations your standard of care will be THE SAME, good or bad! You will be the same...good or bad!

Look insiede you instead to look at others... just you if you are true with yourself could give THE CORRECT appreciation to yourself.

I meet in my carrier people who live JUST for appreciations, they will do everything for it, just to be appreciated "a little" , lol..and is not at all a correct path!

What do you expect from a manager to come and eat with you at the other side of the spagetti noodle? Or give you a hug for so good job you did? You are much more happy with an official smile and an official thank you? You are at job, job is job pesonal life is personal life...totally different! You need to do THE JOB with or without them appreciations... who cares, why to care?
Or may be you belive that an appreciation could push you up on top? LOOOOOL is not true, this is not life!

I will tell you a story... is about my sister my good sister she is an insurance manager now at one of International companies.... she start to work from the down hill...she told me "never I belived, ever that I will be here, never I ask, never I dreamed, never I expected APPRECIATION, I did my job, that is all!"

"I did my job!" That is all that counts!

Do your job on the position where you are now and do it good, the rest.... looooool.... dosen't matter at all!

And for hugs and appreciations please come here, looool always a hug.

Its the little things. How about management covering us for our lunch time that they know we never get. They seem to be able to do it for the secretaries but not the nurses on the floor. We do not have a charge nurse and they know full well that we never get the lunch that they dock us for. How about making a point to make the cnas do what they are supposed to do like empty the foleys at the end of every shift and give us report on the output and who had a bm etc. If the cnas dont even take us seriously who will?

If you decide to buy lunch for one shift, do it for night shift too. There's nothing that makes you feel like garbage than coming in, finding the crumbs and trash from pizza or chinese takeout that was bought for dayshift "just to say thanks" when all we get are admissions....and, "can someone clean up the breakroom tonight? Thanks..."

What would make me feel appreciated? Not overlooking me on payday and saying "sorry, you will get it next time. Your were overlooked this time. These things happen." Tell that to my 3 year old who can now not register for the swim class she was promised, since mommy doesn't have money for it.

I feel very fortunate with my dept director, she tries to accomplish all of the things mentioned in these posts, and if she can't she gives a reasonable explanation within a reasonable amount of time. She thanks in person, by phone, by email, and snail mail. She gives small token gifts, gift cards to favorite stores, or free lunch cards, and if she knows that you are having a bad day and can't get away, she will call cafeteria and have a lunch brought up (she's observant enough that she even knows who prefers what and who has special diets,etc). She will show up in scrubs and work ANY shift when we are short staffed, and she is not afraid of wiping butts, suctioning trachs, inserting foleys, giving a bath, doing vitals, or whatever is needed. She's not perfect, but considering what I hear about other bosses, she's close enough. Unfortunately, there are only a few others like her in our organization, the rest will stab you in the back publicly and laugh in your face while you bleed to death.