Management put up a kudos board. Imagine, if you will, the kindergarten style chart with happy faces. Basically when management did their interviews of all staff(now done monthly in an effort to increase employee satisfaction), they asked if any coworker was especially helpful or good at what they do. If you were mentioned at all, your name is on there with a smiley face for each mention. Of course this wasn't great for people not mentioned at all. Not that everyone should get a smiley face just because(eyeroll), but I think their good intentions ended up being competitive, infantile, and demoralizing.
We used to have boards with blank pieces of paper the staff or patients could write positive comments on and post, which I think was a better approach.
What does your management do to try to formally recognize you in a positive way and is it effective or not?
Our system does something called "Tanner bucks". You can get them for being mentioned by patient on a survey or to a nurse manager or can be given them by higher up's who see you "in the act of caring". You can use them to buy stuff in the Tanner store or trade them in for PTO time if you have enough.
Imagine--for nurses week perhaps managment will get glitter rainbow stickers. Now THAT would add a laugh or two for the ole kudos board, no?!
I would prefer a bonus. For every KUDOS 50 more cents an hour. KIDDING. (Uhm or not...)
There's so many who are badly behaved, but still get choice shifts, paid a great deal, continue to be employed--would be nice if those of us who do well are given some tangible thing besides a sticker and a cookie. (although a nap and a juice box may be tempting....)
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
The thing is, the nurses who go through the shift trying to please the patients above all else get lots of "kudos." The nurse who follows follows orders, follows the rules and enforces the fluid restriction, while doing what the patient NEEDS to get better isn't doing what he WANTS and isn't likely to get "kudos." I've found that in our ICU, the nurses with the most smiley faces aren't the best nurses. They're the ones who are ignoring good patient care in favor of customer service.
Nothing. That's fine with me. Just show me the money and stop cutting the benefits.
I don't want them to even know my name. Then I will be pestered to be on some silly Magnet" make us a unit scrapbook "- "write the newsletter" committee. Like I want to come in at 2pm and then work a 12hour nightshift. What. An. Honor.
When I was still working as an LNA our charge nurse would bring coffee and donuts for us twice a month. She also made us individual gift bags for holidays. She rocked!! I was so happy to see a bag of mini Cadbury eggs at Easter. More so because she remembered they were my favorite.
CardiacKittyRN
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Our system does something called "Tanner bucks". You can get them for being mentioned by patient on a survey or to a nurse manager or can be given them by higher up's who see you "in the act of caring". You can use them to buy stuff in the Tanner store or trade them in for PTO time if you have enough.