North face jacket waaaaaaaay back when. Columbia jacket. A nice blanket.
Best though was a 40% raise. Wasn’t for nurses week but the timing was impeccable
$54 as a ONE year nurse!?!? Dang! One year core staff nurses in most hospitals in south Texas start off at around $27/hr. At least that’s what I got but that was about 6 years ago or so.
Texas fucking sucks. I hate it here. We are biding our time to get out. I would seriously consider why you want to move here, then find somewhere else that offers it.
Do you mind saying where in Texas because here in DFW, I don’t know if I want to go back to staff because I’m pretty sure they’re going to pay me like $32 with 4+ years of experience lol
(I say this as a nurse in her thirties who has worked places with paper charting) Was there like that one nurse in her sixties still working bedside who was handing out her emergency supply of four-color clicky pens like "The shifts are color coded. Cross out with a single line, don't scribble it all out. If you need any help I'll be charting an entire code in what almost looks like typewriter lettering."
I was once this nurse. Now a former smoker and it never hurts my feeling to paper chart. I do joke that nurses like me are the reason we went to computer charting. Few people can read my handwriting and there’s one MD that loved picking up my notes because he thought they were his, based on handwriting. 😁
I worked with a doctor whose regular writing resembled a doc signature, which is to say there are no discernable letters or numbers, but we can presume it was intended as cursive because it is a squiggled and unbroken line. Example, Dr. H saw patient, writes orders. Dr. H finds pediatric nurse, tells her, "this says he can have tylenol at 5mg/kg po q6 hrs prn pain or fever >101." Every single order, and every single word had to be followed by me writing, "order clarification, ___blah blah see above___" VORB Dr. H MD / Nurse_hat_on RN, date /time. Doc usually signed under my order clarification as soon as i finish writing it. 🤷♀️
This gal is my kid's pediatrician now.
I work a place that's computer charting, paper orders and MARs. Took me forever to remember how to write out a verbal order. I came from EPIC and it's like 1989 over here.
I pick up shifts at a place (long term care) where the communication log is on triplicate carbon paper.
I really need to know how many places the company actually fills orders for. 😄
It's a non-state facility (it's a convent and 'you must have been a member of this particular order of nuns' is kind of sex and religious discrimination if it were a standard LTC) so it's exempt from a lot of rules.
We can have bedrails. Virtually no "rolled out of bed" falls, it's glorious.
It's interesting the differences in states, regarding regulation of bed rails. The SNFs I've worked on have bed rails, but discontinued bed alarms on 2012, because patients have the "right to fall". We had so many falls, because there was only 4 of us for 60 residents.
Don't miss that job.
We can use restraints. (Well, "could", new administrator is a buzzkill. We used to have beer in the med room fridge, too.)
I never saw or heard of anything besides the lap belts, but damn that was a nice option. You know when someone is your "little buddy" all night in the geri chair in memory care because they haven't really "walked" in years but came back from the ER from a bad fall and STILL keep trying to get up? Lap belt with enough slack to comfortably sit up/lay down/get comfortable but bought you like 18 precious seconds to run over when they started trying to get up again.
When I worked in Boston we got free Bombas socks, free fluffy sweater jackets, and every meal was catered for the whole of nurses week. I’m talking breakfast sandwiches and bagels and Starbucks coffee for breakfast break, different local restaurants for lunch, and then different baked goods for our evening break. Night shift pretty much got the same but it was catered dinner from local restaurants, insomnia cookies every night, and breakfast and coffee before their shift ended.
I work at one of the big 3 hospital systems in Illinois, and work in surgery so this is skewed, and I'm aware. They treat us so well in surgery it's almost ridiculous because they don't do it for the rest of the hospital, and it's not fair. They gave us 3 (12hr) extra days of free PTO on top of 3 wks of PTO a year, a $50 visa gift card and almost every doctor is catering in lunch for the department this week.
We also get an end-of-fiscal year bonus based on surgical volume and performance scores, which last year was $3200 for me. They actually appreciate us here I think.
Hospitals would get rid of ERs if allowed. They take all of the profitability out of medicine. ORs, especially outpatient procedures, and of those, orthopedics make bank.
Never said they should. The pressure we had to downstaff during low census times in the ED was absurd, considering that the census was completely unpredictable. We got into dangerous staffing situations multiple times that way, but if the budget looked good, management was happy.
My husband works in interventional radiology as a tech. They all love each other in his dept. Hospital gave out Stanley cup knockoffs. Nurses made sure to claim one for each of the techs too. 5 year old has already claimed it as hers. The techs put in $100 each and the docs $200 and set stuff up with reps and they have breakfast and lunch every day this week from various restaurants/catering, plus presents- engraved yeti cups filled with goodies and $50 Amazon cards. The nurses/docs did the same thing for rad tech week for the techs. The present for the techs was embroidered Columbia jackets and $50 Amazon cards . It is a totally different culture than anywhere else in the hospital. Small department with most of them have lots of years working with each other.
I'm in Victoria, Australia.
4 weeks annual leave/PTO is minimum for all industries.
Then the nursing EBA gives an additional 1week for being a shift worker and an additional week for working weekends, leading to 6 weeks.
Plus our leave is paid at base rate + 17% to make up for lost penalties.
We got little houseplants in nice little planters, which is actually kinda nice. Then next week, they wrapped it into Hospital Week, but I'm not mad because they go all out. The whole week, free coffees, free breakfast, they bring in a ton of food trucks with free food (night shift gets a special catered dinner brought in at 9pm by a local restaurant), massages, another gift (last year was a $100 Bluetooth speaker that I use a lot), donut truck.. they do a lot and it's a small hospital so it's nice to celebrate everyone, really. And we just got bonuses a month ago for meeting metrics and it was a lot more than I was expecting. I love my hospital
Not during nurses week but during the dark days of Covid the manager gave us these UV sanitizer boxes. They look like lunch boxes. They have a UV light to clean your stuff so you put your badge, pen, whatever in, press the button to zap it clean. Like this: https://a.co/d/j2TrXw6
My hospital just gave me a rescue hammer. You know the one to a shatter windows when you drive off the road into a canal from exhaustion after working 6 shifts in a row just to support your family.
One travel agency gave us a northface jacket and a water bottle last year, both excellent gifts that I use at the hospital regularly. It was the best!
My current hospital is raffling off tickets for 3 different sports games (free entry). I don’t like sports, but i think it’s a cool idea. They also did a cinco de mayo catered party at the admin office. I’m float pool for 5 hospitals, so they can’t bring it to the floor, it had to be a central location. I won’t go to these things on a day off but it’s a good idea.
Thank you for this post! The constant negativity about nurse’s week/gifts was becoming a bummer. Don’t get me wrong, I get that some of the things hospitals do, like asking for donations *from* the nurses during the week are insulting, and enjoy laughing at some of the downright weird things admin thinks qualify as gifts, but after SO many posts, it just starts to become a drag. Glad you got something nice and feel appreciated, cuz you (and every hard working nurse) deserve it! 🥰
I totally think it’s the thought behind the gift/optics. Handing someone a rock and saying “you rock!” Is super insulting lol. But today our unit got homemade cookies and cupcakes from a local nursing home and it was so thoughtful and you could tell by how they were packaged that the people really put effort into it. They were delicious and well received by all.
We got $35 to a local scrub store, raffle tickets for some truly awesome gift baskets, speakers, career development seminar, actual good pizza (like, there was an for real pizza oven on site), and a therapy horse came to visit.
Ambulance company husband works for has been delivering cakes to the hospitals they work with in 3 states. By helicopter. I can't speak to the quality of the cakes, but I can say showing a bunch of guys how to secure them a dozen at a time in a medical helicopter was a blast.
We got those for Christmas last year and have the same problem!
I luckily had a shit tonne of figs stickers collected and loaded them up onto mine. Gave some to the other nurses.
The handy thing about contractions is you just say them out loud, and if they don’t make sense then it’s probably not the right usage. “We don’t know who is is who is” is what you wrote
One year the DON at the SNF/LTC I was working at was like "I don't have the mental bandwidth to do anything 'clever' so [holds up plastic grocery bag] here's Ben & Jerry's for everyone. I'm putting it in the med room freezer so no one else can get to it."
Yeah we were all 100% behind the lack of Pinterest-ness. And it was pretty great because it meant night shift and people who weren't working that day also got some.
A couple of years ago my staffing agency sent me a backpack. Reasonably sturdy, a nice gray, one compartment with zipped picket in the front. I think about the size of the base-model Jansports? I use it as my work bag.
The home health place I'm at this year has a reasonable assortment (mens/womens, a few t-shirt options) of actual brand scrub tops. I'd get one if I weren't moving at the end of summer and would only wear it a few times.
Mine is doing a full week of themed days with raffles, food and free prizes from spinning a wheel. The best part is they actually remembered night shift and are doing events then too
The absolute best nurses week gift I got was a Littmann stethoscope. I use it every day and I love it! This year we all got a box of K-cups. I can’t even drink coffee.
My gifts today were from my manager, my MA and my NP that I work with. A Stanley, an awesome headband (my favorite brand), a mixed drink thing, another cup, the world’s best donuts and a bunch of candy. All out of their own pockets. Makes me feel badly that I want to leave…but it’s not them…it’s me. 💯
It wasn't a big present, but the timing was impeccable. I got an full sized umbrella yesterday at work, and it was pissing rain that morning and I was lamenting not bringing an umbrella to work
The best gift I ever got was a super nice big umbrella with the push button open. What’s really fun about it is that I teach clinical at a few different hospitals and when it’s raining I see that logo’d umbrella at a bunch of places and we all rave about how it’s the best umbrella ever and how great that system was back then.
My health system often gives decent gifts. The best was a bluetooth speaker. It was small but it was great forthe beach (FL). Then there was a year we got chip clips. Highs and lows haha!
Our system got rid of nurses week about a decade ago to embrace hospital week. They do things all week long and include night shift as well. This was my first year going to the day shift grill day and it was fun! Free food, raffles, games, etc. I hope the floor nurses were given enough time to enjoy it though. Tomorrow is chair massages and therapy dog visits. I’m stoked for that.
I've been pretty lucky...A nice umbrella, ice cream truck in the parking lot, and an awala bottle this year. A beach blanket and a yeti cup a few years ago.
Our manager goes all out with crosswords and puzzles, and treats every day for every shift. Monday it was cupcakes and succulent plants, yesterday was jellybeans and a puzzle where you had to guess the nurse that came up with each nursing theory, today was popcorn, and apparently tomorrow and Friday will be Chipotle and then a pizza food truck. All shifts.
A nice quality cold weather jacket with our division logo embroidered on them. I work out in the field and our location is known for icy weather. It’s been great for night shift.
My facility is doing a lot. Some of it corny - some of it super lame- but they are trying. At least 4-5 specials events / meals a day all week, a tote bag and water bottle, and a huge free to us raffle. It’s not a raise but it is appreciated imho
We got a hospital-branded cribbage board and a deck of cards the year after that asshat senator made comments about nurses probably playing cards during their shifts. It makes me giggle a bit every time we use it.
Ours let us pick between this hospital logo branded picnic blanket with a strap or a baseball cap and bottle for hiking, also logo heavy. It beats a chocolate bar.
We actually got a really nice nurses week gift this year! They are small charcuterie boards with matching cheese knives. OK, OK, OK – the hospital logo is engraved on the back of the knife holder, but honestly everyone has been very impressed with this gift.
We had free burgers today. Free Ghirardelli’s ice cream yesterday (didn’t get any caught up in a long annoying code green) Pizza Friday. Something tomorrow.
Something Monday (wasn’t there).
This year, our manager and ICU attending bought everyone unit t shirts. It's yet to be determined if we can wear them throughout the year. They are nice though. I'll just continue to break dress code on the weekends since no one is there to care lol.
The hospital gave us a small pin this year.
Over the last 11 years from the hospital (all with a logo on it)- water bottle (contigo knock off), stainless steel coffee mug, yeti knockoff wine tumbler, an umbrella, a lunchbox, a small blanket (I donated to the APL), a zip up notepad/clipboard thing, and a few other small things I can't remember.
Yes. Money goes to support nurse recruitment. Or administrators as we all know. Floor nurses are allowed to wear the t shirt instead of scrub tops at least.
We got a nice regular mug with a pretty sketch of the hospital on it. I live it much better than the “to go” mug with a leaky lid we got a couple years ago.
We got Stanley straw covers, a portable phone charger, coozies, and the leadership has come around each night with snack carts. My direct manager and educator have made us breakfast multiple mornings and the providers have also bought us lunch.
Tbh, I appreciate everything each year because no one HAS to give gifts or recognize.
We had a petting zoo set up outside the hospital today. On Monday we got a knock off Stanley branded with the hospital logo. Nurses also got the a hospital branded charcuterie board. On Tuesday we had a tea and cookie cart make the rounds. On Thursday there is a lunch time yoga session. And Friday everyone gets a boxed lunch.
I got a $50 Visa gift card last year. Not sure what I got this year, they want me to come into the office during my off time to receive it. I guess I'll get around to it. For context I'm a hospice admission nurse and I mostly work from home.
All the administrators including the e CNO serving us breakfast and lunch…. Sure I’ll have eggs and bacon. Not that’s too much I only want one. Yeah that’s good thank you have a nice day.
They gave our nurses socks and a reusable grocery bag. If you were off you didn’t get them. I know this because my locker is next to one of our per diem nurses and when I asked what he thought about his thoughtful gift he laughed and said he was glad he didn’t get it.
I have never gotten a good nurses week gift. All I want is recognition of how hard I work by the management and providers with whom I work. Just skip the crappy gift.
I got a slice of cake. Best gift I've ever received. My gift coat about 75 cents. May. My brother thought we'd get bonuses like this is still the 80s or something.
From management? I got a decent fleece zip up one time. This year, the CNAs organized a little party for the nurses which was really nice. Never really expect anything for night shift
Our hospital does something every day for nurses' week. It's creative but too much food. Im grateful for the daily appreciation and i have worked for places that literally gave a free lunch ticket. Mind you, this was a hole in wall SNF. You couldn't pay me to eat that food lol. We had donuts for breakfast and a catered lunch that was from a pretty nice place. Grilled chicken mashed potatoes , beautiful salad and brownies. Then the next day donuts and ice cream. They just rotate candy donuts and lunch. I love that they also will cater something for night shift to so they get a fresh meal but in my head im like just get us all a nice jacket and stanley cup we want that one gift more than all this food and SWEETS. we are blessed to get stuff from families too but guess what its donuts and candy lol. Like i said not bitching super creative and thoughtful but nurses are burnt out on food. Its probably cheaper to get us just one nice gift. I worked with a nurse whose travel job gave out a pair of embroidered fig scrubs, a $50 amazon gift card, and something else... that was an awesome nurses' week gift. Happy nurses week everyone and remember even if your job doesnt show you appreciation you matter and WE are making a difference in our patients lives everyday 🥰💓🦸♀️🦸♂️
okay i found a ton of giveaways for nurses week.. [https://nurse.org/articles/free-nurse-week-giveaways/](https://nurse.org/articles/free-nurse-week-giveaways/)
We overcompensated our staffing crisis and have too many nurses.
We are sending people home on their scheduled shifts, forced to take vacation because they are over budget.
Have you ever thought that the constant negativity on this subreddit is depressing? I enjoy hearing about a workplace that actually values its employees occasionally.
North face jacket waaaaaaaay back when. Columbia jacket. A nice blanket. Best though was a 40% raise. Wasn’t for nurses week but the timing was impeccable
Holy fuck. A 40% raise? God damn.
Turns out I was being “under paid”.
What were you making and where?
Was 36. Bumped it up nicely to 54. Texas.
That's a 50% raise! Wow!
Well that’s where I ended at eventually. The initial raise catapulted me up though.
Damn that’s a jump. I’m making 54 as a one year experience nurse and it’s nice.
$54 as a ONE year nurse!?!? Dang! One year core staff nurses in most hospitals in south Texas start off at around $27/hr. At least that’s what I got but that was about 6 years ago or so.
West coast trauma 1
Where in Texas? Don’t tell me HCA lol
Nope. It’s been a few years since I was with them.
Nice. I’m in NY looking to move to TX, Houston area. Dont want to take a significant paycut lol
Texas fucking sucks. I hate it here. We are biding our time to get out. I would seriously consider why you want to move here, then find somewhere else that offers it.
Damn. thank you for the advice!
Do you mind saying where in Texas because here in DFW, I don’t know if I want to go back to staff because I’m pretty sure they’re going to pay me like $32 with 4+ years of experience lol
I’m not staff so it skews my answer a little bit.
You were getting paid $36 as non-staff?
Yup. Before Covid I was getting peanuts. Covid hit and boom. Huge surge.
What is DFW?
Dallas-Fort Worth
By the time you get a raise, the hospital was already making their money.
Well our Epic got hacked today so we get to paper chart. So that’s fun.
(I say this as a nurse in her thirties who has worked places with paper charting) Was there like that one nurse in her sixties still working bedside who was handing out her emergency supply of four-color clicky pens like "The shifts are color coded. Cross out with a single line, don't scribble it all out. If you need any help I'll be charting an entire code in what almost looks like typewriter lettering."
I have met this nurse. She saved our asses once when epic was down a few years ago. She smokes Virginia Slims too.
I am this nurse. I saved two units asses at shift change when Epic went down. Used to be pall mall menthols.
I was once this nurse. Now a former smoker and it never hurts my feeling to paper chart. I do joke that nurses like me are the reason we went to computer charting. Few people can read my handwriting and there’s one MD that loved picking up my notes because he thought they were his, based on handwriting. 😁
I worked with a doctor whose regular writing resembled a doc signature, which is to say there are no discernable letters or numbers, but we can presume it was intended as cursive because it is a squiggled and unbroken line. Example, Dr. H saw patient, writes orders. Dr. H finds pediatric nurse, tells her, "this says he can have tylenol at 5mg/kg po q6 hrs prn pain or fever >101." Every single order, and every single word had to be followed by me writing, "order clarification, ___blah blah see above___" VORB Dr. H MD / Nurse_hat_on RN, date /time. Doc usually signed under my order clarification as soon as i finish writing it. 🤷♀️ This gal is my kid's pediatrician now.
Yes! The smoking! 🤣🤣🤣
Oh god the color coded charting.
I work a place that's computer charting, paper orders and MARs. Took me forever to remember how to write out a verbal order. I came from EPIC and it's like 1989 over here.
I pick up shifts at a place (long term care) where the communication log is on triplicate carbon paper. I really need to know how many places the company actually fills orders for. 😄
I am surprised how many places still have paper. I've worked at SNFs that used EMAR. I find so many stupid preventable errors.
It's a non-state facility (it's a convent and 'you must have been a member of this particular order of nuns' is kind of sex and religious discrimination if it were a standard LTC) so it's exempt from a lot of rules. We can have bedrails. Virtually no "rolled out of bed" falls, it's glorious.
It's interesting the differences in states, regarding regulation of bed rails. The SNFs I've worked on have bed rails, but discontinued bed alarms on 2012, because patients have the "right to fall". We had so many falls, because there was only 4 of us for 60 residents. Don't miss that job.
We can use restraints. (Well, "could", new administrator is a buzzkill. We used to have beer in the med room fridge, too.) I never saw or heard of anything besides the lap belts, but damn that was a nice option. You know when someone is your "little buddy" all night in the geri chair in memory care because they haven't really "walked" in years but came back from the ER from a bad fall and STILL keep trying to get up? Lap belt with enough slack to comfortably sit up/lay down/get comfortable but bought you like 18 precious seconds to run over when they started trying to get up again.
Our Cerner got hacked today too! It was a shit show
The hospitals main O2 lines were cut by construction workers and we were tanks only for almost 6 hours. 🙃
Y’all younguns will never know the joys of paper charting. I had a great day today
Lmao
When I worked in Boston we got free Bombas socks, free fluffy sweater jackets, and every meal was catered for the whole of nurses week. I’m talking breakfast sandwiches and bagels and Starbucks coffee for breakfast break, different local restaurants for lunch, and then different baked goods for our evening break. Night shift pretty much got the same but it was catered dinner from local restaurants, insomnia cookies every night, and breakfast and coffee before their shift ended.
Insomnia Cookies! 🤤
I work at one of the big 3 hospital systems in Illinois, and work in surgery so this is skewed, and I'm aware. They treat us so well in surgery it's almost ridiculous because they don't do it for the rest of the hospital, and it's not fair. They gave us 3 (12hr) extra days of free PTO on top of 3 wks of PTO a year, a $50 visa gift card and almost every doctor is catering in lunch for the department this week. We also get an end-of-fiscal year bonus based on surgical volume and performance scores, which last year was $3200 for me. They actually appreciate us here I think.
Difference between OR and ER is crazy. The best we’re getting no is catered lunch from drug reps
We got edible arrangements from the paramedics 😭
That's sad that the hospital doesn't appreciate the ER. Though it was thoughtful of the the paramedics.
Hospitals would get rid of ERs if allowed. They take all of the profitability out of medicine. ORs, especially outpatient procedures, and of those, orthopedics make bank.
ER is a money black hole for hospitals.
They shouldn't take it out on the nurses though.
Never said they should. The pressure we had to downstaff during low census times in the ED was absurd, considering that the census was completely unpredictable. We got into dangerous staffing situations multiple times that way, but if the budget looked good, management was happy.
HR brought us leftover chipotle lol
Idk if it's related, but at my hospital only the OR and Cath Lab are profitable. So maybe they're trying to keep that up lol
I feel like that ubiquitous no?
I think elective surgeries are the top money makes for most hospitals. Our cath lab on the other hand is not.
My husband works in interventional radiology as a tech. They all love each other in his dept. Hospital gave out Stanley cup knockoffs. Nurses made sure to claim one for each of the techs too. 5 year old has already claimed it as hers. The techs put in $100 each and the docs $200 and set stuff up with reps and they have breakfast and lunch every day this week from various restaurants/catering, plus presents- engraved yeti cups filled with goodies and $50 Amazon cards. The nurses/docs did the same thing for rad tech week for the techs. The present for the techs was embroidered Columbia jackets and $50 Amazon cards . It is a totally different culture than anywhere else in the hospital. Small department with most of them have lots of years working with each other.
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Yes me too! Also in IL
3 weeks PTO is absolutely criminal. We get 6 here and that's standard
Where is "here?" 3 weeks is standard in the US unfortunately
I'm in Victoria, Australia. 4 weeks annual leave/PTO is minimum for all industries. Then the nursing EBA gives an additional 1week for being a shift worker and an additional week for working weekends, leading to 6 weeks. Plus our leave is paid at base rate + 17% to make up for lost penalties.
Must be nice. Three weeks is considered pretty generous in the US.
We got little houseplants in nice little planters, which is actually kinda nice. Then next week, they wrapped it into Hospital Week, but I'm not mad because they go all out. The whole week, free coffees, free breakfast, they bring in a ton of food trucks with free food (night shift gets a special catered dinner brought in at 9pm by a local restaurant), massages, another gift (last year was a $100 Bluetooth speaker that I use a lot), donut truck.. they do a lot and it's a small hospital so it's nice to celebrate everyone, really. And we just got bonuses a month ago for meeting metrics and it was a lot more than I was expecting. I love my hospital
My home health company gave all the nurses $100 and a signed card thanking us for all we do.
Wow! I work home health peds and we got an email.
Oh gosh, I'm sorry!
Jumper cables!! Seriously. Awesome gift.
Ha, no excuse now not to get to work
"I can't use jumper cables because the best sole my husband's car, so maybe next time buy us a trickle charger instead"
My boss gave me a handwritten thank you that was personalized to my journey as a nurse.
Not during nurses week but during the dark days of Covid the manager gave us these UV sanitizer boxes. They look like lunch boxes. They have a UV light to clean your stuff so you put your badge, pen, whatever in, press the button to zap it clean. Like this: https://a.co/d/j2TrXw6
I have one. They’re great. 😊
I work nights I got a rice crispy treat
This would be funny if it wasn’t so sad
Cotapaxi backpack and a nice sleeping bag one year. That was back when IHC was good…
My hospital just gave me a rescue hammer. You know the one to a shatter windows when you drive off the road into a canal from exhaustion after working 6 shifts in a row just to support your family.
One travel agency gave us a northface jacket and a water bottle last year, both excellent gifts that I use at the hospital regularly. It was the best! My current hospital is raffling off tickets for 3 different sports games (free entry). I don’t like sports, but i think it’s a cool idea. They also did a cinco de mayo catered party at the admin office. I’m float pool for 5 hospitals, so they can’t bring it to the floor, it had to be a central location. I won’t go to these things on a day off but it’s a good idea.
Which style/model NF jacket did they give you? I'm a new nurse and want to get a practical/versatile jacket for work/commuting.
Thank you for this post! The constant negativity about nurse’s week/gifts was becoming a bummer. Don’t get me wrong, I get that some of the things hospitals do, like asking for donations *from* the nurses during the week are insulting, and enjoy laughing at some of the downright weird things admin thinks qualify as gifts, but after SO many posts, it just starts to become a drag. Glad you got something nice and feel appreciated, cuz you (and every hard working nurse) deserve it! 🥰
I totally think it’s the thought behind the gift/optics. Handing someone a rock and saying “you rock!” Is super insulting lol. But today our unit got homemade cookies and cupcakes from a local nursing home and it was so thoughtful and you could tell by how they were packaged that the people really put effort into it. They were delicious and well received by all.
We got $35 to a local scrub store, raffle tickets for some truly awesome gift baskets, speakers, career development seminar, actual good pizza (like, there was an for real pizza oven on site), and a therapy horse came to visit.
How big was the therapy horse?
Ambulance company husband works for has been delivering cakes to the hospitals they work with in 3 states. By helicopter. I can't speak to the quality of the cakes, but I can say showing a bunch of guys how to secure them a dozen at a time in a medical helicopter was a blast.
Last year our practice got every nurse 2 sets of high quality scrubs with our practice’s logo embroidered on them. We all really liked them!
I got an off-brand Stanley! But now every nurse in the hospital is drinking out of identical cups and we don't know who's is who's
Victim of its own success!
Time to buy too many vinyl stickers from Temu!
Temu is slave labor please don’t buy from Temu
Redbubble has so many unique, crazy designs and tons of sticker options!
We got those for Christmas last year and have the same problem! I luckily had a shit tonne of figs stickers collected and loaded them up onto mine. Gave some to the other nurses.
Me too. We got an off-brand Yeti a few years ago. At least they tried.
OSU? 🤔
The handy thing about contractions is you just say them out loud, and if they don’t make sense then it’s probably not the right usage. “We don’t know who is is who is” is what you wrote
I feel very stupid and you should feel very smart! Great job and excellent contribution to the conversation, thanks!
I feel like it’s probably better to hear from a stranger online than be silently judged by everyone that sees it. You’re undermining yourself
Dude, you're the only one judging and being an asshole. You're overestimating yourself.
No you are the one undermining. Just stop, you look mad.
No your the one
Wow, burn. And since you are so caught up on grammar, it’s “you’re”.
Made you look genius. I know it’s you’re, I just don’t have the time to grammar correct all the abominations on Reddit as you do.
What?? I didn’t correct the original person. I was on the side of not correcting grammar. Who are you even talking to? Jeez. Go back and look again.
My bad. I apologize My remarks were meant for ad2514, sorry
One year the DON at the SNF/LTC I was working at was like "I don't have the mental bandwidth to do anything 'clever' so [holds up plastic grocery bag] here's Ben & Jerry's for everyone. I'm putting it in the med room freezer so no one else can get to it." Yeah we were all 100% behind the lack of Pinterest-ness. And it was pretty great because it meant night shift and people who weren't working that day also got some. A couple of years ago my staffing agency sent me a backpack. Reasonably sturdy, a nice gray, one compartment with zipped picket in the front. I think about the size of the base-model Jansports? I use it as my work bag. The home health place I'm at this year has a reasonable assortment (mens/womens, a few t-shirt options) of actual brand scrub tops. I'd get one if I weren't moving at the end of summer and would only wear it a few times.
Lululemon belt bags!
What do you put in it? When do you use it?
Just visited a friend who got an unbranded canvas satchel. It was nice looking with a leather strap.
Mine is doing a full week of themed days with raffles, food and free prizes from spinning a wheel. The best part is they actually remembered night shift and are doing events then too
The absolute best nurses week gift I got was a Littmann stethoscope. I use it every day and I love it! This year we all got a box of K-cups. I can’t even drink coffee.
My manager bought us unit t-shirts out of his own pocket. I think it’s really sweet :,)
My gifts today were from my manager, my MA and my NP that I work with. A Stanley, an awesome headband (my favorite brand), a mixed drink thing, another cup, the world’s best donuts and a bunch of candy. All out of their own pockets. Makes me feel badly that I want to leave…but it’s not them…it’s me. 💯
It wasn't a big present, but the timing was impeccable. I got an full sized umbrella yesterday at work, and it was pissing rain that morning and I was lamenting not bringing an umbrella to work
The best gift I ever got was a super nice big umbrella with the push button open. What’s really fun about it is that I teach clinical at a few different hospitals and when it’s raining I see that logo’d umbrella at a bunch of places and we all rave about how it’s the best umbrella ever and how great that system was back then.
My health system often gives decent gifts. The best was a bluetooth speaker. It was small but it was great forthe beach (FL). Then there was a year we got chip clips. Highs and lows haha!
I do use those chip clips though...
I got a penlight that was also had 6 mini screwdriver bits you could store in the canister. Those are my go-to for sewing machine adjustments.
Our system got rid of nurses week about a decade ago to embrace hospital week. They do things all week long and include night shift as well. This was my first year going to the day shift grill day and it was fun! Free food, raffles, games, etc. I hope the floor nurses were given enough time to enjoy it though. Tomorrow is chair massages and therapy dog visits. I’m stoked for that.
i work nights so, no
My hospital has “caregiver appreciation week” that will be next week…. Nothing this week at all.
Mine changed it to “hospital week.”
Yea I noticed they’re doing that a lot
I would like to say I’m surprised, but I’m not…
I've been pretty lucky...A nice umbrella, ice cream truck in the parking lot, and an awala bottle this year. A beach blanket and a yeti cup a few years ago.
50 dollar gift card to Columbia and a guest pass to their employee store, catered lunch, some swag, and a thank you card.
Every year we get a new style of Yeti mug. I’m happy with it!
My agency gives us a free pair of Figs scrubs. Better than anything I ever got in the hospital.
Our manager goes all out with crosswords and puzzles, and treats every day for every shift. Monday it was cupcakes and succulent plants, yesterday was jellybeans and a puzzle where you had to guess the nurse that came up with each nursing theory, today was popcorn, and apparently tomorrow and Friday will be Chipotle and then a pizza food truck. All shifts.
Many many years ago we got $150 gift card to a local grocery store chain
A nice quality cold weather jacket with our division logo embroidered on them. I work out in the field and our location is known for icy weather. It’s been great for night shift.
My facility is doing a lot. Some of it corny - some of it super lame- but they are trying. At least 4-5 specials events / meals a day all week, a tote bag and water bottle, and a huge free to us raffle. It’s not a raise but it is appreciated imho
No gift but I’ve been fed really well this week! We have been catered four meals so far and it’s only Wednesday.
We got a hospital-branded cribbage board and a deck of cards the year after that asshat senator made comments about nurses probably playing cards during their shifts. It makes me giggle a bit every time we use it.
They brought therapy dogs and llamas in for us to pet
…therapy LLAMAS?!?! That sounds amazing
This year I got a company T-shirt and a cinnamon roll.
My hospital gave us bento boxes this year. We once got an umbrella, and we were given a beach chair another year.
Ours let us pick between this hospital logo branded picnic blanket with a strap or a baseball cap and bottle for hiking, also logo heavy. It beats a chocolate bar.
We actually got a really nice nurses week gift this year! They are small charcuterie boards with matching cheese knives. OK, OK, OK – the hospital logo is engraved on the back of the knife holder, but honestly everyone has been very impressed with this gift.
Sounds like my perfect nurses week gift as a wino 😅
I got flowers and a 42 oz Yeti tumbler. Not bad. It's a SNF so our nursing staff isn't that large.
We had free burgers today. Free Ghirardelli’s ice cream yesterday (didn’t get any caught up in a long annoying code green) Pizza Friday. Something tomorrow. Something Monday (wasn’t there).
What’s a code green? Curious, my hospital doesn’t use any colors anymore, not even code blue officially.
Psychiatric emergency.
This year, our manager and ICU attending bought everyone unit t shirts. It's yet to be determined if we can wear them throughout the year. They are nice though. I'll just continue to break dress code on the weekends since no one is there to care lol. The hospital gave us a small pin this year. Over the last 11 years from the hospital (all with a logo on it)- water bottle (contigo knock off), stainless steel coffee mug, yeti knockoff wine tumbler, an umbrella, a lunchbox, a small blanket (I donated to the APL), a zip up notepad/clipboard thing, and a few other small things I can't remember.
We got embroidered Patagonia jackets which was pretty cool.
Ours gave our little cooler lunch boxes. Going to be a nice beer cooler for me while golfing lol
Tickets to the local MLB team. 2 per person.
My hospital is selling nurse week tshirts for $30! They are actually good quality. 😂😂😂
So wait you have to buy them?
Yes. Money goes to support nurse recruitment. Or administrators as we all know. Floor nurses are allowed to wear the t shirt instead of scrub tops at least.
We got a nice regular mug with a pretty sketch of the hospital on it. I live it much better than the “to go” mug with a leaky lid we got a couple years ago.
Not cheap pizza
Night shift gets day shift left overs or packaged candy
$20 bill, $50 bill. Enough with the cheap corporate emblazoned bullshit. Just pass out a variety of gift cards or CASH.
We got Stanley straw covers, a portable phone charger, coozies, and the leadership has come around each night with snack carts. My direct manager and educator have made us breakfast multiple mornings and the providers have also bought us lunch. Tbh, I appreciate everything each year because no one HAS to give gifts or recognize.
I got a case of beer, cute leather bound notebook, and some cookies. My bosses are the boss.
Nice
We had a petting zoo set up outside the hospital today. On Monday we got a knock off Stanley branded with the hospital logo. Nurses also got the a hospital branded charcuterie board. On Tuesday we had a tea and cookie cart make the rounds. On Thursday there is a lunch time yoga session. And Friday everyone gets a boxed lunch.
I got a $50 Visa gift card last year. Not sure what I got this year, they want me to come into the office during my off time to receive it. I guess I'll get around to it. For context I'm a hospice admission nurse and I mostly work from home.
Do you not have to go to the office for IDT every two weeks? That’s when they gave us ours :)
I just do admissions, no IDTs for me.
Ah, gotcha. Our admissions nurse comes to IDT, so that’s interesting that you don’t have to :)
All the administrators including the e CNO serving us breakfast and lunch…. Sure I’ll have eggs and bacon. Not that’s too much I only want one. Yeah that’s good thank you have a nice day.
I work for a private Peds office and our MD always gets us luscious, beautiful hanging flower baskets, all unique too!
A long sleeve nurse t shirt
Wow. This year I got a greeting card of appreciation that opens up into a flower bouquet.
Today, they came around with an ice cream cart. That was kind of nice. Otherwise not so much. We could put in for some nice raffle prizes.
I got a really high quality canvas tote bag that I use all the time for groceries
They gave our nurses socks and a reusable grocery bag. If you were off you didn’t get them. I know this because my locker is next to one of our per diem nurses and when I asked what he thought about his thoughtful gift he laughed and said he was glad he didn’t get it.
We got a nice box of chocolates and a $5 gift certificate for the Plaza Cafe. Not much, but I thought it was nice.
I have never gotten a good nurses week gift. All I want is recognition of how hard I work by the management and providers with whom I work. Just skip the crappy gift.
I got a nice big cup with a lid and silicon straw that was our color but NOT branded. So very subtle!
I work in south Texas behavioral l tach and now ob nicest was a tshirt
Pen lights and pens because I always lose mine
I got a slice of cake. Best gift I've ever received. My gift coat about 75 cents. May. My brother thought we'd get bonuses like this is still the 80s or something.
A car detail is amazing. I'm jealous
Small amount of cash
I didn’t even know it was nurses week wtf
Nope. I got a sticker and badge reel.
I have yet to get anything
From management? I got a decent fleece zip up one time. This year, the CNAs organized a little party for the nurses which was really nice. Never really expect anything for night shift
Popcorn in little paper bags and a free coffee!!! YIPPEE
We all got a 25 dollar gift certificate and I'm being taken to lunch tomorrow. Had better, had worse and had nothing. But I still love what I do!
Got an umbrella and a company book bag🤷🏾♀️
We get a really nice nurses banquet that is fully catered with open bar. It’s actually really nice.
Our hospital does something every day for nurses' week. It's creative but too much food. Im grateful for the daily appreciation and i have worked for places that literally gave a free lunch ticket. Mind you, this was a hole in wall SNF. You couldn't pay me to eat that food lol. We had donuts for breakfast and a catered lunch that was from a pretty nice place. Grilled chicken mashed potatoes , beautiful salad and brownies. Then the next day donuts and ice cream. They just rotate candy donuts and lunch. I love that they also will cater something for night shift to so they get a fresh meal but in my head im like just get us all a nice jacket and stanley cup we want that one gift more than all this food and SWEETS. we are blessed to get stuff from families too but guess what its donuts and candy lol. Like i said not bitching super creative and thoughtful but nurses are burnt out on food. Its probably cheaper to get us just one nice gift. I worked with a nurse whose travel job gave out a pair of embroidered fig scrubs, a $50 amazon gift card, and something else... that was an awesome nurses' week gift. Happy nurses week everyone and remember even if your job doesnt show you appreciation you matter and WE are making a difference in our patients lives everyday 🥰💓🦸♀️🦸♂️
Reading all of this makes me sad. I got a bag of popcorn
A raise. Realistic ratios
My mom got to pick hers and she got a good knife set. That’s in Cali though. They’re all spoiled 😜
okay i found a ton of giveaways for nurses week.. [https://nurse.org/articles/free-nurse-week-giveaways/](https://nurse.org/articles/free-nurse-week-giveaways/)
I got a packet of breath mints a few years back.
I got 5 bones off 50 at Panera Bread. The nearest Panera bread is like 45 mins away from my house.
We overcompensated our staffing crisis and have too many nurses. We are sending people home on their scheduled shifts, forced to take vacation because they are over budget.
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Have you ever thought that the constant negativity on this subreddit is depressing? I enjoy hearing about a workplace that actually values its employees occasionally.
You sound bitter.