What does your hospital do for halloween?

[brokenroads27]

or your place of work. im just wondering if any places decide to let their staff dress up or anything fun. what about christmas?

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

We encourage the staff to dress in costume....nothing violent or inappropriate. The residents love it and many of them dress up, too.

[made]

We are throwing a Halloween party, and are having a costume contest for the residents. Decorations everywhere, and the staff is going as The Chipettes.

I can't wait, I'm so excited!

[FlyingScot, RN]

In my current position I draw blood...all day. On Halloween I will wear removable plastic fangs but only for my patients who will get it!

[MissJulie]

Our office always dresses up for Halloween, and we decorate the entire office! Our doctor loves it, when he was growing up in the , he never got to participate in Halloween (I forget the exact reasoning, but I believe it had something to do with Spanish or Catholic tradition, but again, I'm not sure.), and when he and his wife came to the States, he only got to take his kids trick-or-treating. Now, he's in love with the idea of dressing up! He's basically obsessed with Elvis, so I'm pretty sure he'll be going as Elvis this year, we were thinking that the girls could go as The Pink Ladies from Grease since they sort of go together!

[chevyv, BSN, RN]

We do the same thing we do everyday, nothing. When I work on Halloween I bring a small can of soda and a few pieces of candy (sugarfree chocolate for diabetics) for each of my pts. Management does nothing for us or the patients.

[Jamthenurse]

The hospital has some "Harvest" fest with games, watermelon eating contest, guess the weight of the pumpkin, costume contest. The nurses do not dress up, thank goodness. Try being serious to an ugly family member dressed as Hello Kitty. Or a doctor.

Christmas, oh you mean the "holidays." See "Harvest" above. Secret Santa on the floor, managers try to give some light present to 92 employees of the floor out of their own pockets. The hospital gives a ten dollar gas card to everyone. Tree in the lounge, not in patient areas. A little tinsel.

[Bruce_Wayne, ASN, RN]

Each department decorates itself and then there is a contest to see who wins.

On actual halloween we have trick or treating on the first floor of the hospital, with kids from day cares and preschools coming by. The trick or treating is strictly for younger children, it's pretty fun.

Our halloween decorations are absolutely awesome though, the employees are really motivated to make it nice because it entertains the children.

[xtxrn, ASN, RN]

Wait for the weirdos....jme.

[JDZ344]

Halloween isn't even really celebrated here.

[JDZ344]

Oh, on the Paediatric floors, they have trick or treating and at Christmas they have all sorts of fun there

[suanna]

For most holidays, but especialy halloween, the only thing my hospital does different is float more staff to ER. There seem to be more "tricks" than "treats" from the health care perspective.