Nurses Week/Hospital Week

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Am I the only one that thinks whomever started hospital week purposefully made it the same week as nurses week to avoid having to recognize nurses? Or am I just a crazed conspiracy theorist?

Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

For the past 6 years, HR VP would email me "When is Nnurses Week" so she could schedule a "Colleagues Celebration".

This year, she remembered all on her own. I have a new boss, a Physical Therapist; homecare agency moved entire business operations staff to my building and moved clinical to a new location closer to expanded territory.

Loved my boss when he gathered all the business Mangers to plan a celabration for " Nurses Week" as my depatrment only one with RN's.

:D

Having luncheon Thursday, I'm picking up the hoagie trays he paid for+ side salads. ;) All staff getting $10.00 Target cards.

Plan on "decorating" the lounge with framed prints of our AN cartoons.

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Specializes in Nephrology.

I have never heard of "hosptial week". In my clinic during nurses' week we get treats at our desk every day, a little gift of some sort every day (pen, lanyard for ID tags, etc) and one day during the week our managers will bring in coffee, tea, juices, fruit, baking, all sorts of goodies. We then have about an hours to meet in the lunch room and chat, drink coffee and visit over the goodies. Out managers do the baking and they usually bring in three or four different things apiece. We get lemon loaf, cookies, muffins, lemon poppyseed cake, choc cake, all kinds of stuff. And every afternoon one manager will come around about 2:30 with snacks - sometimes a container of mixed nuts, or a choice of granola bars, crackers with cream cheese, whatever. We do know we are appreciated!

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Specializes in LTC, Acute Care.
wooh said:
Am I the only one that thinks whomever started hospital week purposefully made it the same week as nurses week to avoid having to recognize nurses? Or am I just a crazed conspiracy theorist?

Do you and I work together????? We just had this same convo at work last night...LOL.

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Specializes in L&D,Wound Care, SNC.

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This was our "appreciation" gift. Gee thanks. It even had a personal intro by our CNO.

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Specializes in Rehab, critical care.

I'm sure people complained in the past: wait, why do nurses get all of the attention for a week? We (insert here, doctors, RT's, etc) work just as hard, and there's no week for us, hence: how hospital week was instituted. It's the PC thing to do. Pretty soon they'll be a "Teacher's/National school week" lol.

I don't really care, though. I'm just glad they still call it Nurse's Week, and my husband generally buys me stuff or pampers me, so that's all that really matters lol. I say generally, but I've only gotten to celebrate one nurse's week prior to this one, so the hope is that he continues to do so lol. He's a good man contrary to what Flannery O'Connor says.

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
wooh said:
am I the only one that thinks whomever started hospital week purposefully made it the same week as nurses week to avoid having to recognize nurses? or am I just a crazed conspiracy theorist?

If you're a crazed conspiracy theorist, come sit beside me.

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
rnbeauty23 said:
being a new nurse I was excited to celebrate my first nurse week but I have to admit I felt a little bummed out when finding out its hospital week as well. I remember seeing all the gifts, food, nursing shirts while in school and felt it was awesome how they showed the nurses appreciation. oh well I got my free mug and chic-fil-a today (along with everyone else in the hospital, LOL) so I'm happy!! ?

When this is all it takes to satisfy nurses, we have lost the battle and the war.

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I got a freaking cookie. So did all the other staff. No raise this year either. It's a total hospital administration scam. Never heard of it before this year.

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karamarie91 said:
we got umbrellas. I put my initials on it, but someone still stole it.

Got one of those some years ago. The cheap nylon pulled off the tines after a few uses, so it became as useful as a paper cocktail parasol. Oh well.

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synderrela said:
I got a freaking cookie. So did all the other staff. No raise this year either. It's a total hospital administration scam. Never heard of it before this year.

OMG, laughing so hard. "here, nursie nursie, come get your cookie--you're such a GOOD girl"!! LOL....

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Specializes in Med Surg - Renal.
dudette10 said:
I don't care either way. I got free **** after my shift last night. :w00t:

$5 coupon (no change given) for the coffee shop or the cafeteria for us! Whoo!!

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I work in a medical practice nowadays, not the hospital, and we employ only a handful of actual nurses (lots of pretend ones, that's another story) so of course there's no recognition. But for the specialty we all work in, I made sure we got a little recognition, some courtesy of the professional nurse's association for the specialty, and some because I shamed TPTB into giving us a cake :)

I had to arrange all of it, it was a one-day thing that no one but us knew about, lol, but at least it was something. For this week, it's like any other week.

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