National Nursing Home week

[KRSLPN, LPN]

National Nursing Home Week is right around the corner. Does the facility you work in do anything to honor the staff?

[Eleven011]

I work PRN at a local nursing home. The DON gave me a cute bag with a nursing themed travel mug, and new lanyard, and some candy. She gave it to me when I worked last week because I wan't working next week. I was tickled to be remembered as I don't work there that often.

[Blackcat99]

No. They do nothing. They don't mention it at all. In fact, instead of the usual 2 "mandatory meetings" a month we are scheduled to do 4 mandatory meetings this month. I guess that's how they honor us nurses by requiring us to attend even more "mandatory meetings".

[BrandonLPN, LPN]

I've noticed that the facilities that celebrate stuff like "nurses week" or "nursing home week" are almost always non-union private facilities that don't offer very good benefit/retirement plans or guarantee decent job security.

My unionized government facility never throws potlucks, or recognition dinners or gives little gift bags to the nurses or anything like that. Never. When I worked at a non-union for profit hospital, they rolled out some sort of chintzy ceremony every opportunity they had. My cup overfloweth with fancy fountain pens, little pins, and $10 gift certificates when I worked at this hospital. Of course, I also made $5 less an hour, had a bare bones retire mention plan and zero union representation......

I'm fully convinced that stuff like nurses week and all the stupid little pins and trinkets or whatever are creations of management to distract from the fact that pay sucks, benefits suck even more and there's no union to protect the workers.

I'll take my union and state pension over some crappy gift bag any time.

[dallet6]

We have to spend the week doing trainings for our new computer system. I didn't work the floor today, but at the desk I saw that one of the supervisors brought cookies...