yesterday was so cute

eak16 · Oct 27, 2003

goodness- for a split second I thought you meant residents as in doctors at a teaching hospital. Now I would have liked to see that!

ktwlpn, LPN · Oct 27, 2003

Originally posted by S5777
I was working yesterday and it was trick or treat day they gave all the residents candy and kids went from resident to resident the kids were eather grandkids great grandkids or kids of workers it was so cute to see the residents hand out candy and it made them so happy do any of your hospitals do somthing like that for the kids or for residents?
thanks
sara

We did it at our LTC-invited the community and they set up a path through several units and led them through in groups.Only a few residents from each unit were invited to go down to the main floor and help pass out the candy-so something that was supposed to be fun has ended up hurting alot of people's feelings...Our activity dept could have taken some more folks down there and sort of lined them up along the halls but only the cute grandmom and grandpops were invited...We do have some residents that could scare the crapout of a little one-but hey...let them think they are remote control displays or something....Getting old is not always pretty

nurseygrrl, LPN · Oct 27, 2003

We don't have anything like that at my facility, wish we did! I think it's too late to come up with something now...but maybe next year! That sounds like it's excellent for the residents and kids alike.

robynrn2b · Oct 28, 2003

We do that in our facility. Our town is only about 25,000 people but last year we had over 4,000 kids. The residents love it.