Patient greeting cards - How do you sign them?

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It seems to be the new trend sending patients a get well card when they leave the hospital. We have to sign them for our patients and I'm sick of signing "Best wishes for a speedy recovery" or "Hope you feel better soon". How do you sign yours? I do try to include the person's name and add something personal when I have time, but looking for something new to write on my cards.

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Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.
It seems to be the new trend sending patients a get well card when they leave the hospital. We have to sign them for our patients and I'm sick of signing "Best wishes for a speedy recovery" or "Hope you feel better soon". How do you sign yours? I do try to include the person's name and add something personal when I have time, but looking for something new to write on my cards.

I refuse to send my patients greeting cards. Guest services will send a card to patients on occasion (usually for our long stay patients), and a nurse always follows up with a phone call to make sure the patient is doing okay, if they need anything, etc. That is enough for me. I do not expect a get well card when I am DC'd from the hospital. I don't even mind not getting the phone call (although that is my facilities policy).

Personally, requiring that the nurses sign a card goes too far into customer service and I did NOT become a nurse to kiss patients butts.

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I refuse to send my patients greeting cards. Guest services will send a card to patients on occasion (usually for our long stay patients), and a nurse always follows up with a phone call to make sure the patient is doing okay, if they need anything, etc. That is enough for me. I do not expect a get well card when I am DC'd from the hospital. I don't even mind not getting the phone call (although that is my facilities policy).

Personally, requiring that the nurses sign a card goes too far into customer service and I did NOT become a nurse to kiss patients butts.

I don't mind signing them. A lot of patients send us cards too. I understand your point too though and some people I do not sign them for.

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Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.

Are you not busy enough to even think about that?

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Hmmm.. well, in home health we would send out cards to family members of our patients who had passed on. If I didn't know the patient well, I would just simply sign my name, or write "best wishes, my name". That's it.

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