What do you do at your workplace to still feel the spirit of Christmas?

[NurseEnvision]

We all know nurses barely get the holidays off. What do you do at your workplace to still feel the spirit of Christmas? What are the simple or big things that you do for your patients during this season? Share your experience and make this year's holiday a memorable one!

[JadedCPN, BSN, RN]

I am not a holiday person at all for personal reasons; I do not celebrate. However, having spent every single holiday in the hospital as a kid and now having been a pediatric RN in a hospital setting for over 10 years, I understand what a great yet sad time it can be for both the kids and their families for them to be in the hospital during holidays, especially Christmas. I have worked every single Christmas Eve and Christmas day my entire career by choice so that I can do what I can to bring a smile to their faces (while making me smile with holiday pay!). I was night shift charge nurse for 8 of those years so on Christmas Eve I absolutely loved sneaking into the patients' rooms in the middle of the night and dropping off the big bag of wrapped toys that they were provided by Child Life, and then coming back into work the next night (Christmas night) and hearing about all the presents that they got.

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

...I absolutely loved sneaking into the patients' rooms in the middle of the night and dropping off the big bag of wrapped toys that they were provided by Child Life, and then coming back into work the next night (Christmas night) and hearing about all the presents that they got....

Thank you!

[RNrhythm, BSN, RN]

I am very ambivalent about the spirit of Christmas, whatever that means. It all seems so contrived and insincere. There is nothing Christ-like about shopping. I try to be a good person year round. As a nurse, I have the privilege of being compassionate and caring every shift. All I ask is that you do not take up my very limited counter space with your dollar store, slave-made decorations.

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

Our lexicon is littered with phrases that have religious origins. ........................

Some phrases I found:

A drop in the bucket; Breaking bread; Hail Mary (a Hail Mary pass in football); no rest for the wicked; Bless you; Bite the dust (Another one bites the dust by Queen ).

"The powers that be" first appeared in William Tyndale's 1526 English translation of the Bible (first ever English translation from the Greek and Hebrew).