The most expensive, silly or cheap gifts you received from your hospital

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I am not sure if there is any other thread similar to this one but I am just curious what is the most expensive, silly and /or least expensive gifts/ freebies you ever received from your hospital??

The most expensive gifts I ever got for my hospital is a bag with the hospital logo on it and the least expensive is those plastic fruits....they were just promoting health and well ness....I just wished they would give us lots of pen!!!

Specializes in Emergency room, med/surg, UR/CSR.

At the last hospital I worked at for my birthday I got a 5 dollar gift certificate to Mcdonalds!:uhoh3: If I was 2 years old that might have been a great gift, but JEEZ! For nurse's week, which my hospital turned into Hospital week, I got a cheap pen and a pen light that never did work. Oh yeah, they did provide us with massages, which was nice, and they provided a meal for days which from what I understand, the nurses didn't get to enjoy because all the other roaches....departments got in there and sucked up everything first. Course, nights didn't get anything. I am so glad I left there. Officially I stayed PRN, but there is no way I will ever put scrubs on for that place again. But thats a whole other thread.

Pam

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At Christmas we get a datebook with the company logo on it and the manager goes around handing them out like he's giving you $100. I don't even use mine.

From my other job we get nice things during nurse's week, but that is from the union, once a nice coffee mug, and this year a nice gym bag with the union logo.

If you work the holiday you are usually given the turkey meal, and a nice lunch on Mother's day.

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At one hospital they were given a "red" apple.

Another hospital a Orange in a paperbag

Now that is just ghetto!

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I received from one hospital a very very nice gift basket stuffed full with goodies from Trader Joe's. I love the basket and get more compliments on it. It is beautiful, well made and has a lining that has pockets and a drawstring closure on the lining that extends above the basket. I use it for my knitting.

I have received gift certificates for everything from $10 to $100 depending on where I worked. Then there is my current hospital that gives nothing at all for the holidays. We did not even get a Happy Thanksgiving from our manager written on the white board lol.

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Specializes in NICU.

Last night we got the cold, congealed, possibly poisonous leftovers of the Thanksgiving dinner the attendings bought for day shift... :uhoh3:

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Specializes in LTC Pharmacy.

I got a Christmas bonus check for $19.19.

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One year I got a write up from my nurse manager, seriously.

At my old job, the management did nothing for the staff that year.

My shift took it upon ourselves to have a potluck. At the end of the shift, we had lots of nice desserts left over. We cleaned up the breakroom, arranged the desserts in a nice display in the center of the table and left them for the oncoming shift.

The next day I came in to a write up, because as charge nurse I was the one responsible for leaving a mess for the oncoming shift and within a week it became floor policy that holiday dinners must include all 3 shifts, and be approved in advance.

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Gift presentation matters too.

Every year at my husband's company, the big boss personally gives everyone their gift and thanks them for their work that year. My husband says the personal thanks means more than the present(a respectable Walmart gift card). It probably didn't take the boss more than a half-day to greet everyone, and it did more for employees than having the secretaries file gifts in everyone's mailbox. Husband is not in healthcare.

The best gift from a hospital was a choice of gift certificates for nurses who worked during a big snow storm several years ago. The nurses worked long hours because other nurses couldn't come in. I loved my Barnes and Noble gift certificate.

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Specializes in ER, NICU, NSY and some other stuff.

Yesterday when I got to work I was told tha the cafeteria staff had prepared a beautiful meal with all the fixings that emplyess could partake of FOR $4.50 A PERSON and an additional $2.00 for desert!

Man if we had known they were going to go all out for us we wouldn't have bothered arranging our own potluck....Oh wait They didn't even offer that to the night shift, that was just for days.

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Specializes in Recovery (PACU)-11 yrs, General-13yrs.
I just got a $100 watch that is very nice for my 15th year.

For my 15th year I was "presented" with a perspex award on a stand that would pass as a headstone by our CEO of 4 years, WHO DIDN'T KNOW WHO I WAS! She literally said, after a 45 minute staff meeting, and making eye contact with me all the way through 'cos I always sit in the wrong place "Jane Bloggs, is she here?" (This is in a 120 bed hospital, not that big!) Like many others, the 'headstone' is hidden in a cupboard-it's not the sort of thing you would put on display. The 10 year employees got movie tickets or a big bunch of flowers-they really know how to make you feel wanted & appreciated (and yes, you do detect a note of sarcasm there)

Very hard to remain a loyal, committed worker after that.

Over the 18 years I've been there we've been given- 1x cheap white coffee mug, 1x travelling coffee mug and 1xmini radio thingy (like an mp3 player, but just the radio part), all 'job lot' purchases, nothing else comes to mind, oh yes, they occasionally sent out birthday cards signed by the bosses, but they never arrived on time. My daughter on the other hand is to receive a $100 gift voucher for a major department store, from her job as receptionist that she started 2 weeks ago, another job gave her a mini voice recorder after 6 months

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Specializes in Onc/Hem, School/Community.
One year I got a write up from my nurse manager, seriously.

At my old job, the management did nothing for the staff that year.

My shift took it upon ourselves to have a potluck. At the end of the shift, we had lots of nice desserts left over. We cleaned up the breakroom, arranged the desserts in a nice display in the center of the table and left them for the oncoming shift.

The next day I came in to a write up, because as charge nurse I was the one responsible for leaving a mess for the oncoming shift and within a week it became floor policy that holiday dinners must include all 3 shifts, and be approved in advance.

You gotta be kidding me??!!!:eek::eek:

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The best gift from a hospital was a choice of gift certificates for nurses who worked during a big snow storm several years ago. The nurses worked long hours because other nurses couldn't come in. I loved my Barnes and Noble gift certificate.

Nice :)

I was one who worked through that horrid blizzard back in 90's. Stuck at work for a week. DON announced that the hospital would provide us any food or drink, and if we left the facility, we'd be fired on the spot. She had a virtual mutiny on her hands, and backed down rather quickly on the food and drink issue, but continued to say we couldn't leave. Once the roads cleared enough in my neighborhood that I could reach my house, I went home. My manager warned that I was risking getting fired, but I told her after working double shifts for a week, I WAS going home.

Our nurses worked their butts off, and managed to keep the floor staffed throughout this crisis, but administration never so much as thanked us for what we did.

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