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Nurses Week

Just wondering if your employeer did anything special for you during this week?

I work in a wound care clinic in a hospital. the hospital got us a company logo umbrella (I liked that) and had a free ice cream bar.

One of our doctors took us out to eat at Red Lobster, and our manager bought us carry out lunch from a local diner.

Pretty good I think.

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    gave money in our honor to some charities. Bought us Pizza.

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    I'm the manager of the nurses in a preschool (1200 kids, 4 nurses). I went out and bought flowers, did arrangements with ribbons, and gave one bunch to each of them, plus individual cards. The upper management did nothing. Zip. nada. It also happens to be teachers' appreciation week.

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    An email telling us how much we were appreciated, and that the CNO was "doing all sorts of things for us" and zip. Not even a free ticket to the cafeteria. One of the Lovenox reps brought us free bandage sissors though.

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    Each of our homecare branches had breakfast or lunch provided by agency along with collared polo shirt as gift.

    My contribution: fruit stuffed gourmet french toast and picked up the bagels along with Brian's contribution of allnurses pens.

    My office staff will get designer post it notes and since 5 staff have birthdays this month, will have cake and chicken fingers tomorrow.....they got hyacinths earlier in month as lasting memory of time on staff.

    In fall, we celebrate employment anniversary's and since several of my staff are reaching 20 -30yrs as RN, will get certificates.

    We are a partying crowd.

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    my employer gave the nurses beach towels.

    its a nice idea but id rather have something more useful such as a Lunch box, water bottle, or maybe a tshirt.

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    Our employer (outpatient offices/clinic) didn't do anything for Nurses Week; we heard that nurses were included with Administrative Staff Day (Secretary's day) a few weeks ago even though no one told us directly.

    Admin considers employees at the facility (support staff, receptionists, MA's, LPNs, RNs) as interchangeable machine parts, each capable of taking on equal tasks unless and until they are elevated in status as "Providers." If one is a Provider they are entitled to a special catered lunch every month plus multiple perks including interesting annual production bonuses, increased leave time and nice base salaries that allow for a sizeable mortgage and a couple of new cars.

    4ZBirds

    Going back to school because my BSN & experience does not provide me enough $$ to live decently in my area.

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    I think they brought in lunch one day one my unit. I'm not certain though because I work nights.

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    icecream scoop with no icecream......geeshhhh....so cheapo! (well this is from the hospital)...our DON felt sorry for us so she bought us lunch and promised to bring ice cream tomorrow........HAPPY NURSES WEEK TO ALL! What we do and how we do our care what matters the most and a simple thank you or smile from a patient or family member does make a big difference and makes our load al ittle lighter! HATS OFF TO ALL OF US NURSES:balloons: :nurse:

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    Got fired.

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    Got fired.

    Tazzi - I know you are sad but you made me laugh . . .nice present. ;)

    Ummm . . . our hospital went to having a big bbq during Hospital Week because it became too hard to please everyone during Nurse Week (not to mention Surgical Nurse Day, OB Nurse Day, ER Nurse Day), CNA Day, X-ray Tech Day, Lab Tech Day, etc. :D:rolleyes:

    So, now we all celebrate together during hospital week.

    (It really did get petty - comparing gifts and all).

    steph

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