When was the last time higher management gave you a sincere Thank you.

[tobesmartt]

this is the winter season, snow, illness, etc. for the most part nurses do make an effort to make it to their jobs. what gets me is higher management. nurses, that wears heels ,sit at a desk. in a shortage of nurses when there is staff shortage, how many of those heels come off and nursing shoes are put on? director of nursing should be the first in my opinion to do just that. they carry licenses to give out meds. do wound rounds, and yes clean butts. what are your thoughts.? how is your director of nursing do? is he or she keeps their nice shoes on ? a little thank you from them should be coming out of their mouths to us that work our butts off.

[CoffeeRTC, BSN, RN]

I get a thank you from the DON and ADM and I do see them pitching in to help and I totally respect it BUT what I'd really like to see a solution to the problem or at least an attempt to fix it. (some of the innappropriate admissions etc)

[INLPN93]

In Feb of 2006, we got a free catered meal for a defiecency free state survey.

A snow day thanks? Wow. Must be nice.

I assumed I was old school in remembering days ago when thank you gestures were given. Nice to see there may be hope because the gestures aren't completely gone.

[SweetLikeSugar]

My nurse manager won't even double check insulin or SQ heparin anymore. She claims she's not allowed since "she's no longer a bedside nurse." And the last time I saw HER boss at one of our staff meetings, she told us we "better start acting like this is a Hilton Hotel and please the patient at all costs." Then she mentioned Press Ganey, job security, blah blah blah.....

I'm very thankful for my weekend night shifts.

[BettyBoop01]

I have only been working for 6 months, but no thank you from MY don! We work understaffed constantly with unsafe patient loads, and if you refuse a patient you get written up for "not being a team player" and if you stay late you get written up for "poor time management". Our DON only comes in during banker hours, so I am fairly certain she doesnt know who I am or what I look like.

On the other hand I got floated to another floor one night and when they were short their director came in and took an assignment! I had no idea I was working along side that director until the morning when she said thank you for all your hard work.

Guess what floor I would rather work on?

[smily nurse, BSN, RN]

yesterday!!! :heartbeat

[NamasteNurse, BSN, RN]

NEVER. NEVER do they take off their fancy shoes. Never do they say thank you. They barely come out of their offices. In fact, during a snowstorm they actually mandated nurse which is against the law in our state except for emergencies. NO the higher ups did not come in. Ha that's funny.

[Leelee2]

My former DON gained a lot of respect very quickly. If we were short, and agency wasn't available, she would grap a cart and start med passing...at 8 months pregnant!! (in LTC) She was great to work under, and her actions encouraged a real team atmosphere. Instead of walking around in high heels and looking for wrongs to point out, she was always in the mix of things helping wherever needed. She always knew what issues there were in the facility and quickly brought improvement ideas. Eventually she became the administrator, a promotion she well deserved. She certainly gained my respect, and that of many other floor nurses.

[missladyrn]

Still waiting...none as of yet!

[JacknSweetpea]

I don't get thanked at work. The management's attitude is "why would we thank you for doing your job"? One of the CNA's asked the Administrator as to why we don't get pizza ordered for us, and the Administrator curtly told her that the only thing that the employees can expect is a paycheck every 2 weeks. I was sitting at a nearby table charting and witnessed the entire conversation. The CNA inquired about having pizza because everything had gotten done and they were working short.

[enchantmentdis, BSN, RN]

You will lose all your teeth, all of your hair, wither away and die before management gives you any thanks. It is almost built into a nurse manager's job description to keep nurses worried they aren't doing a good job. The minute a manager gives you a compliment is the minute she reliquishes some sort of sick control. You will be more successful drawing blood out of a stone than waiting for a compliment from management.

[casi, ASN, RN]

Back when I worked in the hospital as a CNA, I had an amazing clinical coordinator who would occasionally get stuck working as Charge nurse, and even though didn't seem to come out of her office a lot she was always advocating for her staff. A few times I've also seen the hospital CEOs come in at 3am pushing around carts of ice cream and ice cream sunday toppings.

Now the nursing home/TCU I'm at I heard thank you from the DON once this week. My clinical coordinator came in once at 4am to work as a nursing assistant because we were really short. And my direct supervisors/charge nurses are always helping out and saying thank you.

[diane227, LPN, RN]

Yesterday. My manager wants to clone me.