Does your floor decorate for Christmas?

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Just wondering if your floor decorates for Christmas and if so, who does it?

Specializes in Primary Care Nursing.

I don't see the point of decorating for Christmas (unless its a Catholic hospital). Somebody somewhere will complain it's religiously/politically incorrect and demand it all be pulled down, so why even bother.

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Specializes in ob/gyn med /surg.

no i heard last year they didn't want to offend anyone... no trees or santas .. pretty sad...nothing...

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We have a garland suspended from an area in the nurses station (it's not from the ceiling, it's from a funky half wall that was mostly cut away and serves no purpose now...). We do an ornament exchange, and everyone who participates hangs their ornament on the garland. It's pretty secular.

If anyone complained, I suppose we'd have to take it down. We have a pretty diverse crew...mostly Christian with a few atheists, and a whole lot of folks who don't care one way or another. It's fun, though, and most everyone participates. Mainly it brightens up the place.

One frequent-flyer, who seems to get admitted for several weeks around most holidays (good natured, funny, but you all know the type), has participated the last two years!!

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has any hospital ever caught fire from xmas decorations?

seems google says so..

Hartford, CT Niles Street Hospital Fire, Dec 1945 | GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods

I'd imagine xmas lights have come a long way since then though.

Great story. Yea, those huge, hot lights would ignite any tree ablaze but they sure were pretty and made the tree smell great as it sizzled the pine needles with the heat.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

When I was an ER volunteer, people improvised an impressive array of decorations, including an IV pole that became a Festivus pole.

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Specializes in Oncology; med/surg; geriatric; OB; CM.

No....we can't. Trees are placed (sans lights of course) at the end of the hallways by the big windows; might put up something festive on the corner of the nurses' station seen by patients & visitors. There is a Nativity scene that is placed in the lobby (Catholic Hospital) and some decorations (like wreaths) hung outside some office doors and those sticky gel decorations on the office door windows.

Other than that--no....very depressing in my mind. We can wear Christmas scrub JACKETS, but not Christmas scrub TOPS.....I still can't figure that one out.

Years and years ago, we had lights, garland, wreaths everywhere---now so many fire hazard warnings; don't want to offend people of other faiths. It is what it is whether we like it or not.:confused:

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
no i heard last year they didn't want to offend anyone... no trees or santas .. pretty sad...nothing...

Yeah us either and I think it stinks, sheesh we weren't even allowed to decorate for Halloween...and I'm on an adolescent unit! Imagine being a kid stuck in the hospital on a holiday with no celebration. :down:

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