What Exciting Thing is Your Management Doing For 'Nurses Week'???

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Just wanted to check in with my peers to see what management has in store for you for nurses week.:balloons: I'm sure they're going all out, right? :rolleyes: They'd never come up with anything stupid, that insults your intelligence and good taste, correct???:p I'm sure, whatever they do will be well worth all the hard work you all put in throughout the year!!!:biggringi

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Listen, We are more than just professisonal workhorses that can be replaced at a moment's notice, and dumped on whenever eveybody feels like it. It is REALLY condescending to have to be upbraided by "One of our own." Stick around longer and read some more posts. You'll begin to see that we are HUMAN too. Peace out. :stone

I agree 100%!

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Dear IMaRN,

Man, talk about negative, I'd say you take the cake on this thread!!!:chair:

We're havin' a lil' fun here, chill out, okay? I'm laughin' a lot at these stories.:chuckle

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Taken from:

http://ca.geocities.com/ipromiseposter/ipromise.html

"In the spring of 2003, the SARS virus quietly arrived, unannounced, in Toronto from Hong Kong. The virus took advantage of our multiculturalism. Toronto had never heard of SARS when it arrived. The virus took advantage of that too. First, a mother who had recently returned from Hong Kong died and then 5 days later, her son died. Toronto newspapers began to report about voluntary quarantines. Newspapers worldwide began to talk about Toronto. The reports began to displace the events in Iraq from the headlines. With each update the news sounded more serious. When the World Health Organization announced a travel ban for all but essential travel, it seemed that Toronto's fate was sealed. It became one of the least desirable places in the world to travel to. The newspapers began to report daily counts of total probable SARS cases, the new infections and the numbers in quarantine.

...Nurses who worked at administrative positions said the situation was serious. Nurses who worked in the regulatory bodies said the situation was very serious. Nurses who worked in the community and in the city hospitals said it was extremely serious. They were wearing multiple masks, multiple gowns and multiple gloves. They said that the masks were not good enough. They said that some nurses were infected by the virus. Exhausted nurses taking care of sick nurses. Nurses on life support. When was it going to stop? I imagined a nurse cradling a sick nurse who was cradling a very sick nurse who was cradling ....and on and on.

The news reported updates to the death toll and thousands were now quarantined with a new outbreak in Toronto. The streets of Chinatown were quiet. I went there to lend support and saw just a few kids walking along Dundas. One was wearing a New York Fire Department sweatshirt. I remembered the firefighters in New York. There were firefighters saving firefighters. So why are they different than our nurses?

- Exhausted New York firefighters were profiled with their sooty faces. Their faces showed their character. Exhausted nurses wearing multiple masks don't have visible faces.

- Photographers surrounded the exhausted firefighters. Photographers could not go into SARS units. Hospitals had closed their doors to all visitors including photographers.

- Citizens of New York offered free lunches to the overworked firefighters. Overworked nurses could not leave their SARS units for a lunch break without risking the spread of infection to the citizens of Toronto.

- Firefighters paused to take a drink of water. Nurses working in SARS units could not pause for a sip of water without removing their masks and possibly becoming infected.

- Firefighters took soot home with them and their families helped them wash all traces of it away. Nurses took the virus home and could not hug them for fear of infecting them. Some did infect their loved ones and their loved ones died.

- Firefighter's families were celebrated by their community. Nurse's families were quarantined and shunned.

- Firefighters were heroes. Nurses were nurses. "

Image of a Nurse during the crisis:

http://ca.geocities.com/ipromiseposter/ipromise.jpg

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Our hospital took the (to me) wrong step by re-naming it "hospital week" and the management/administration plans to have special food for the staff every day of that week........but of course at night, nothing but leftovers will be available. Rofl way o'the world....

The lab techs have their week; so does u/s, PT, and Pharmacy. We even had "Doctors' Day" in March ( I think every day is "doctor's day" myself, but I digress).

Why not let it remain "NURSES' WEEK" and celebrate nursing and our influence on health care separately? I found that insulting to change the name, myself. Oh but I am whining aren't I? sorry..... :rotfl:

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The hospital is doing "hospital week" celebration. Usual cookout, etc., during daytime hours. My regular job isn't really doing anything extra special but (and I swear on a stack of Bibles this is true) we are treated so great the rest of the year, every week is nurses week in my mind. :)

I don't need a special recognition week if all it is is to try and make up for treating me crappy the rest of the year, which is the impression I get of how it is used at most places, and a poor effort at that.

where do you work, that sounds great!!!
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Specializes in home & public health, med-surg, hospice.

i got a low-fat quaker "fruit & oatmeal" strawberry cereal bar with a label stuck to the front that has the company's logo and a message that says, "we appreciate you berry, berry much!"

ya'll are jealous, aren't you???

lol!

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i got a low-fat quaker "fruit & oatmeal" strawberry cereal bar with a label stuck to the front that has the company's logo and a message that says, "we appreciate you berry, berry much!"

ya'll are jealous, aren't you???

lol!

i'm green with envy kelly!(like a green apple cereal bar)

our hospital is also using hospital week in place of nurses week. lots of hullabaloo. i'll let you know monday what went on.

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Well, I have been doing this staff nursing gig twenty years this summer,

so I feel I can say this: Stop Whinning!........IF we nurses want to be treated like Professionals......then we must start sounding like Professionals.

IF you were given anything in appreciation of National Nurses week then except it for what it is, Little or Big who cares? Are you going to stop being a nurse because you don't like your token of appreciation?.....are you going to leave your place of employment because of your token of appreciation?

....I refuse to accept your negative attitudes, take the gift or refuse it........just don't whine!......I received a $10.00 Simon card...it is $10.00 more than I had the day before they handed it to me, period. :twocents: It is almost Mother's Day are you going to whine about that too? :rolleyes:

Imagine if you will...........not sure if you are married but let's, for the sake of argument say that you are. Your annivsary is tomorrow. Your hubby comes in w/ some wilted flowers from the area convenience store, half-price sale sticker still on them. And says as he hands them to you..."oh, by the way, happy annivsary." Last week this same man stayed out late 6 out 7 nites without so much as a phone call home to let you know that he would be late. This same man, offers no romance for the rest of the year nor does he acknowledge your birthday and is constantly complaining that the house is never quite clean enough or the meals that you make (had he been there to eat them) are not prepared corrrectly. Would you "just accept it [the flowers] for what it was"?

We are accepting these "gifts" from management exactly for what they are.....lame attempts at plying us w/ "goodies" not because they care about us and what we do but only because it's obligatory. Now, it seems to me that this is a great forum for us to dump/vent. People can choose to read this thread or not. But better we dump/vent here rather than at work. And one more thing. We are NOT whining. We are merely stating that we are tired of being treated in a less-than-professional manner by our employers. Most of us "malcontents" have stated that we would much rather be treated better throughout the year and that we do see these "celebrations" for what they really are. A simple thanks every once in a while throughout the year is the absolute best way to celebrate nurses! IMO, if management would do that more, the nursing shortage would not be quite so bad. And one last thing. Please don't tell me that I am not a professional, I resent that. I am professional all the way. I take excellent care of my patients. I carry myself in the most professional manner at all times when I am working.

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It is almost Mother's Day are you going to whine about that too?

You betcha....IF my kids were nasty to me the rest of the year (i.e. the only time they call is when they want something).

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My facility is soooooo nice. They are planning on letting us keep our jobs, that is if we agree to decrease our PCA staff!!

This is a joke (I think! :chuckle )

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I agree. If you don't wanna hear us vent, then start a thread about how wonderful it is to get microwave popcorn, or a helium balloon, and how utterly moved you are by it all!!!

Let's face it, some of these gestures by management are absolutely idiotic and insulting to our intelligence.:angryfire

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They're putting out collection boxes so we can donate items to a shelter. This is for nurses' week.

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