National Nurses Week--Your Opinion

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What do you all think of National Nurses Week? I recall getting little presents, like a new bandage scissors or balloons from hospital management--but to me that seems like a farce. What nurses really need is for management to pay attention to problems, issues, and do something about them--not try to placate nurses with candy and balloons. One hospital gave up blow up beach balls, at the same time they were trying to cut on-call pay down to $.50/hour, do away with getting time and a half if you were called in, and also trying to make call mandatory. I think priorities were a little screwed.

So what do you guys think? Is National Nurses Week just a lot of hot air as it exists now? Do any of your employers actually make real changes during this week for you?:kiss

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A lot of hot air. Sorry. I'm a pessimist and am unusually crabby today.

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Nurses' Week has become Hospital Week at my hospital, with cheap trinkets for all! No special mention of nurses.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

it became health care employees week here and lost a lot of significance along w/that. oh well. why would anyone be surprised the way nurses have been disrespected all this time?

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Yep, hot air.

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No comment.

Kristy

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Specializes in Critical Care,Recovery, ED.

Waste of time and money. And rather insulting also.

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Specializes in Corrections, Psych, Med-Surg.

Bread and circuses--and cut-rate ones at that.

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National nurses week- HAHAHAHAHAHA:rolleyes:

IMHO - a way to make administration feel like they are "doing something" for their nurses.

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Specializes in LTC, ER, ICU,.

it would be nice when "they" sever us food during nurses week, a care plan with focus on interventions and evaluations on meeting the patients needs through better working conditions for nurses as we eat, would be a great way to say, thanks, you think!

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Just a lot of hot air and insulting! I don't want beach balls and crap like that. I want increased pay, improved working conditions and to be treated as a professional!

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Specializes in pre hospital, ED, Cath Lab, Case Manager.

My hospital gave us buttons once that said how much they cared about us. I constantly got in trouble because I refused to wear the damn things. My nursing supervisor kept giving me new ones and would watch me pin it on, and then give me flack the next night when I wasn't wearing it again. Now it the same as others, health care workers week... Nothing really changes. Stupid trinkets that really don't count.

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