Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

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So, with nurses week coming up, I was fondly remembering all the neat swag my employer has offered me as a token of their appreciation.

Over the last four years as a nurse I have received -

A calculator that broke in one week,

A fanny pack that was made out of sheet plastic,

A coupon for a free cookie from the cafeteria,

Shoelaces with the hospital logo,

A lunch bag made out of the same sheet plastic as the fanny pack,

And the only gift that was ever usefull, a badge holder like the drug reps give out where your badge is on a string with a spring.

so what kind of gifts does your institution pony up for?

There have to be some worse ones than mine.

We all know that a cheap trinket from our employer will ensure our future longevity with said institution. So what made you stay working where you are.

At my last job last year, we got badge holders with the hospital's name on it. A computer mouse pad with Toprol written on it that they had gotten from some rep, a little plastic baggie of bandaides that they got from some rep, and individual packets of instant cappacino drinks that tasted really nasty.

This year I am at a new job and we got canvas tote bags and travel coffee mugs, both from the doctors. The hospital had a luncheon where they served Bar-B-Que beef sandwiches, chips, and brownies. They had a cake, but I couldn't stay away from my unit long enough to actually see it cut. OH, and they had little cards that someone made up on a computer, which everyone in the nursing office signed.

Hey, while I'm at it, maybe I should plan my own birthday parties too!

Actually, I have taken my own B-day cake to work with me. That way, I get the kind that I like and nobody gets the chance to forget my birthday. LOL

:cool: :balloons: :biggringi

One time when I was working LTC, our DON brought candy and flowers for the Day shift, Evenings and Nights got NADA...She also used to say that Days should get shift dif instead of eve or nights because they worked harder that the other two shifts combined. But you could never get her to work on one of those "easier" shfts.

My biggest gripe is that although they give us nurses little trinkets for nurse's day at that LTC facility, at least they gave us something. When it came time for Nursing assistant's day, they basically ignored it. I finally started bringing things in for my co-workers on Nurse's and Nursing assistant's days

Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

My current employer has turned us into walking billboards, with umbrellas, denim shirts (all with their logo plastered all over them). I guess it's better than nothing....even though I'd rather have the MONEY they spent on them...=)

Specializes in Adult internal med, OB/GYN, REI..

i got a watch with the hospital logo on it...

didn't work though.

This year for Nurses Day we got a chocolate bar and a letter of appreciation from the Hospital Administration. My personal supervisor gave us all really nice hand cream from Bath and Body Shop. Silly me, I appreciate everything and anything I get.

The most wonderful thing I ever got on Nurses day was a card and a gold bracelet from the family of one of my patients who passed away from cancer. No hospital gift will ever top that.

Sigh, I was right about nurses week..I got nothing. Not even a email or card. Even my Mom didn't acknowledge it this year as she has in the past. Hallmark must not be doing a very good job promoting it. I was in one a couple of weeks ago and did not see any display about it. They must not have had good sales in the past to ignore it this year.

I started to think about it since this was the first year I didn't get to celebrate with the food and gifts, as small as they sometimes have been in the past, and getting left overs from day shift, I thought gee, my boss is a nurse and all my coworkers are nurses and I didn't say much or do anything for them. Why is it exclusive to our bosses or non-nurses to provide our trinkets and goodies.

I propose that we honor each other. Make nurse poems on your computer to share with coworkers, give your boss a card, tell hubby you expect dinner out or flowers or better yet, both! We don't need to spend money on each other, we could keep things simple like treating each other better, and giving hand made or computer generated items or just an extra hand. Someone bring a camera and take pics of the crew, all chip in for lunch or dinner delivered. If we got away from the boss should give me syndrome (including myself) and treated it more like a special holiday at work, we'd all have more fun and be less resentful. We could decorate our units or workspaces for the occasion. Then the patients families would know it's nurses week and we are bound to get goodies from them!! Perhaps if we just changed our attitude about the whole week, we would get what we c/o not getting b/c people will want to join in on the festivities and treat us as special as we know we are. JMO. Hugs!

We got the usual bagels, sub sandwiches and cookies this year, but on of the most original was a pretty post card from chaplin services with a prayer on it celebrating nurses week. They personally gave one to each nurse on all shifts. They came in early to catch the night shift. They also had a candlight ceremony and honored florence nightengale. I thought this was thoughtful.

Originally posted by thisnurse

i got a rock

Omigosh, I am laughing so hard I'm crying :chuckle

I will never watch 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' the same way again! (So you're in good company, thisnurse, that's all CB ever got.)

I consider myself most fortunate.........I not only got a chocolate bar (3 for a dollar size), but, also worked a 16 hour night shift for the actual nurses day celebration! Better than nothing....right?!?!

WOW!!! What a thread. I had to skip some of it.

We got a keychain /w logo, given out during a desert buffet of those tasty little fancy mini cakes. Which was for all hospital employees.

The NM of our floor sent us all a little thank you note via e-mail. It was a nice gesture. But the best thank-you's come from the pt's and their families.

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