Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

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VA_CCRC

24 Posts

The hospital I work at actually had the nerve to call it "The Week of The Nurse". I must say though, last year (before all the talk of budget cuts) on our floor we all received nice leather-like bound portfolios and $15 gift certificate to a local shopping center...AND a very nice catered luncheon. Not to mention, all the 'suits' come out of the offices to cover the floor so we can ACTUALLY attend the luncheon....that's always a nice touch!

But this year....totally sucked. I feel so insulted....let's see...I won a coupon for a free ice cream cone. Oh yeah they were having a 'traveling breakfast bar'....it shoulda kept right on traveling...youhad your choice of a bagel or biscuit. The biscuits were stale and dry and nothing to put on 'em. Then they only gave you half a bagel!! what cheapos!!

I woulda been happier with a calculator or something cool like an umbrella!! :o

shootemrn

35 Posts

Last year we got a (1) pencil with the hospitals name on them. Can only imagine the massive budget for nurses week!

MQ Edna

1 Article; 1,741 Posts

We got $5 Blockbuster gift cards and root beer floats. This from a "poor, pitiful and poverty-stricken" little hospital! The ones who have big bucks have no excuse :p

JenniferNRN

36 Posts

Add me to the "those who received nothing" list. We didn't even get an acknowledgement of the week. The following week we celebrated "hospital workers week" and all of the activities (one free meal, ice cream social) were planned during the 9-5 shifts during the week. How about us weekend night shift people?? :confused:

I would have appreciated even a simple thank you flyer in my mailbox but I think the best gifts would have been some kind of gift card or day off. I am surprised to see so many places that skimp on nurses week.

alkat

11 Posts

Our hospital has a committee of nurses who decide how to celebrate nurses week. We were given frisbees, pens, mugs, note pads on one day, but if you were scheduled off for the day, too bad, all the extras were given to secretarys, social workers, dietary, etc. I was scheduled off and was told that they had ran out. There were massages by massage students one day if you worked day shift and was able to leave the floor and stand in line for 20-30 min. waiting for the 5 min. massage (hand or face). Avon and Mary Kay were there pushing their wares to day shift also. Punch and cookies were handed out floor to floor one day. Night shift had cookies and punch left for them. Our units management handed out sports bottles. They had $275 to spend on 55 nurses (or so I was told). There was also the awards day presentations where popcorn, but no drink, was served. I asked to take extras back to some of my co-workers who couldn't attend and was told just to take two, so on the floor 7 of us split two bags of popcorn! Nurses week generally just reminds me that nurses continue to be taken for granted and underappreciated, but I don't know the solution.

fab4fan

1,173 Posts

However, on Doctors' Day at my hosp., they get gift certificates to fancy restaurants, huge fuss made over them by admin, etc.

Just goes to show you where we are on the food chain.

SmilingBluEyes

20,964 Posts

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

One place we work, we got a great gift. What was it?

you guessed correctly if you said NADA. Yeppers, nurses are very appreciated some places. But I guess with all that GREAT pay, that should be more then enough to appease the masses, huh?

A Kitty RN

27 Posts

Normally my hospital is great- but for Nurses Week--everyone gets something. It makes the nurses feel even less appreciated. I mean, can't we have at least 1 day where we get recognized for all the hard work we do?!:p

Why should secretaries and housekeepers and dietary aides get stuff, too? I applaud their work but how can the admin. justify them as Nurses?

Oh well, just another way for nurses to get #$%*

Chiaramonte

121 Posts

In the place I am working now, the Administrators bring in their best home cooked food and have a banquet for the nursing staff served by the Adminstrators themselves. They even come in at night to do the same.

The Docs I work with in the ER pitch in and give each nurse a $30.00 gift certificate for the shops around town.

They pretty much do the same for Christmas but with the hospital itself giving an additional $30.00 gift certificate.

I think because it's such a small community hospital, they try harder to retain their staff. Anyway, all in all, not a bad place to work...

Specializes in Interventional Pain Mgmt NP; Prior ICU and L/D RN.

At the hopsital I work out we get pretty much the same trashy trinkets as already stated. And it does turn into hospital staff appreciation week. Shoot they even give the stuff to the visitors!!!!!! Nurses week is a crock of dog doo-doo!! We already know we aren't appreciated by the administration, nor by most of the pt's or families.....I really wonder why sometimes I love my job! I guess I am glutten for punishment. Oh well, maybe it is b/c every once in awhile a pt says thank you for the most incidental thing and it brings me back to why I do what I do. Nurses week will never do that for me!

spineCNOR

310 Posts

OR Nurses week is in Novemeber--in 2002 instead of OR Nurses week we had Surgical Services Week.

No special recognition of RN's--there was a free lunch each day, paid for by a different vendor each day (costing the hospital nothing), most days running out of food before everyone got a chance to eat. There was a different cheap trinket given away each day, but the drawings were "won" by people in instrument processing or the pick room. This for the nurses in the most profitable department in the hospital!

Merts

3 Posts

After reading some of these replies, I must say I have it pretty good where I work. I work for a large institution in NY. Nurses week in my institution is a big deal. We have an actual ceremony on the 8-4 tour which continues over into the 4-12 tour. The event is held in a Chinese buffet all you can resturant with a banguet room. The managers, supervisors and DONs, decorate the room with ballons and flowers. Pictures of nurses are displayed and we are recognised and given certificates for attendance, punctuality. achievements and so on. Those that were promoted are acknowleged and the Director of nursing gives us a speech. Everyone is given an opprtunity to attend and the staff is allowed to go in turns.

For those of us on the 4-12 tour we are allowed to attend before we start our shift or during our lunch hour. The resturant is not very far from the workplace.

As gifts we are given clocks, tote bags, mugs, pens, sticker pads and several other gifts. all with names of different drug companies. The whole event is sponsered by our phamacology department so we get some good stuff from the drug companies. They actually pay for our nurses week.

I work in NY

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