What Did You Get For Nurses Week?

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I have been MIA from allnurses for a long time so I decided to start a topic...I just received my "nurses week" gift from my management team at the hospital were I work. Last year we got a pen and this year we got one of those tall aluminum bottles that keeps your drinks cold/hot, with the hospital logo on it!! Yay! *sacrasm over* At least we got a useable gift.

Curious on what other facilities have done or currently doing for their staff for nurses week. Please share.

Specializes in ICU.

My hospital combines the entire hospital and calls it "Hospital Week." One day is free ice cream, and on Friday there will be a cook-out, on day-shift of course, but they will provide left-overs for us. I haven't gotten any type of gift in years, and then it was just cheapo stuff, anyway.

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Our manager made us cupcakes. I got a card in the mail from our CNO. We all got a free meal ticket for the hospital cafeteria. They did free health screenings and had some other stuff going on that only affected day shift (because nobody on night shift wants to make a trip to the hospital during the day) so I didn't pay much attention. Day shift even ate some of the night shift cupcakes, which were clearly labelled for us. This is why we hide our good coffee from them. Meh.

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Specializes in Critical Care and ED.

I made bank this year! I got a cool water bottle with the company logo on it, a pen, a bag of watermelon candies, a nice smelly candle in a glass jar, a notebook, some chocolate, a 25% off coupon for the gift shop and a mini bottle of Captain Morgan. Woo hoo!

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Specializes in Critical Care, Postpartum.
I got a hearty pat on the back. Of course the hand had a knife in it.

A knife with the company logo on it I assume.

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Specializes in Vascular Access.

We had a cook out for hospital week. Someone please tell me why hospital week is during the same time as nurses week. We can't even have a week for ourselves.

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Specializes in ER, Med-surg.

The opportunity to purchase a t-shirt if we wanted it lololol.

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Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.

I got an e-mail acknowledging it - period.

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Specializes in Travel, Home Health, Med-Surg.

...whatever we get (which isn't much) everyone else gets also, a ribbon for everyone...

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We had a cook out for hospital week. Someone please tell me why hospital week is during the same time as nurses week. We can't even have a week for ourselves.

The last few years they had been combining it in our hospital week too till they finally got the message that "Hey, morons, we nurses don't like having our week jammed into ***** Health Week. Find your own frickin' week!" So this year they did..it's later this summer I think.

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
Last year was the best, we got those walking odometers? Kind of like a pre-Fit Bit. We all got that message lol.

Did you use them at work until they overheated and shorted out?

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Urgent care, ER, BMT.

I received an insulated cup with the hospital logo...I liked it :)

Happy Nurses weeK!!!!!!

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I got 10 home visits, 5 of which were bilateral legs plus an urgent call to a malfunctioning vac which when I got there turned out to be working fine, hence a wasted 40 min round trip. As I sprinted through the office to grab supplies I did spy a few lonely cakes and pens on a table but no nurses around, all out on visits trying to squeeze 10 hours work into 8. I think I might have got a flea bite too! Lucky me.

Happy nurses day!

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