Advice on gift for retiring nurse

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Specializes in Nephrology Home Therapies, Wound Care, Foot Care..

I'm a nursing student in my 3rd semester. Our clinical instructor is retiring after this semester after 40 years of bedside MedSurg nursing, and many years as a clinical instructor. She is a very direct person, not fluffy, not a go out to dinner or have a massage kind of person. Hoping for some ideas we haven't thought of.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.

Cold hard cash!

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Specializes in Nephrology Home Therapies, Wound Care, Foot Care..

Can't, sooooo against policy. Technically can't give gifts either, but school overlooks that.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.

Card....or flowers....or nothing at all (leave the gift-giving to her colleagues since it's a violation of policy).

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Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.

Flowers and card excellent idea

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Magazine subscription? Something professional or maybe something that she expressed an interest in (gardening, travel, cooking & entertaining, pets. For a change of pace, it'd be something she'd not do for herself. I knew of a gift of monthly tea products for someone who LOVED it - a little bit of pleasurable extravagance for a retiree.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

A book. A journal. Something of that sort.

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