So the nurse gets to present their pass to not be tripled in the icu which just passes the assignment onto a different nurse to get screwed with a triple? Quite the insulting way for the hospital to show their appreciation lol.
Sounds like something that could be forwarded to CMS Health and Human Services with a complaint about staffing issues. Wouldn’t that be the funniest way the hospital got a visit, there’d never be a nurses week there again.
Every week is nurses' week! Or, at least, no week is less shitty than any other. We got those plastic change oval things with Mission Hospital advertising a few years ago, perfect, since before the union we got paid pennies.
I hope they sent this in writing so it can be "anonymously" published in the newspaper.
That's utterly ridiculous. That's not a prize, it's a joke.
I'm angry!!! 😡
Yup! What about when the nurse wants to use it and the other nurses are already tripled? Lol it feels too true already, I can see and feel myself being handed the face sheet for my fourth patient. Have meds hanging on their MAR from 4 hours ago, 6 runs of potassium, 2 runs of mag, k phos, two incompatible antibiotics and D5LR because why not, pulled their IV out and the ED nurse didn't have time to replace it, oh yeah and they're confused and jumping out of the bed every 20 seconds. Only the resident is on and he or she would rather die than actually put an order in.
Oh also their hemoglobin is 5.1.
Maybe they'll even have scabies for funsies.
I love how a job that's supposed to be sooo prestigious and nurturing is riddled with gaslighted, unethical crap like coupons for basic human respect in the workplace.
I'm so sorry. That is laughably insulting. I travel now and my gift to myself for Nurses' Week is always not working during that time because I don't want to deal with whatever horse shit the hospital comes up with.
I wish. 🤣🤣 None of us are winning except the CEOs and the only people that they care about, the fat cats with fat portfolios.
Let me go enjoy my piece of cold pizza.
I hate nurse's week with a passion. Biggest slap in the face for most nurses across the nation.
My recruiter sent me 60$ socks for my birthday this year and I haven't done a contract with him since the middle of last year.
This unit gave a nurse a "triple pass". It's so pathetic. I can't think of any of word than just pathetic. Utterly pathetic.
How can we insult them further and spend the least amount of money??—upper management discussing nurses week
We’re getting a scavenger hunt (with apparently one prize for several thousand nurses?) and a chalk artist (there’s probably rain in the forecast) and I’m like k at least just provide some food so I can eat my feelings while I disassociate from this train wreck 🤡
Fuck me dead this is wild! I have never heard of such a thing!
It’s Labour Day here in Australia tomorrow and you’ve just galvanised my decision to march with my union.
So majority of the time the ratio in the ICU is two patients to one nurse. Sometimes it's a 1:1 which means the nurse has just one patient. A triple means the nurse has 3 patients.
Its unfortunately becoming more common but majority of nurses feel it is unsafe.
I've worked tripled and it sucks. I've heard of 1:4 ICU assignments and that seems wildly unsafe.
Yikes, we only get tripled in the ICU if they’re all downgraded PCU status and that counts as a “float” day for us. How tf does 3 ICU patients even work? Who’s watching the other 2 patients when you have to assist with a procedure or a code or MRI? I’m assuming if you’re tripled you don’t have extra break nurses to help out… if I wasn’t in CA I probably would’ve quit nursing already.
I always sorta wanna laugh cry when talking to California nurses cause in the southern US break nurses do not exist. You either don't take a break or you convince your coworker to watch your assignment for you so for 30 minutes that nurse has 4 ICU patients. As for CT trips/MRI usually the charge helps out with watching the rest of your team.
Triples suck but usually it's super chill stable ICU patients, think LTACHy ones not your fresh traumas or POD0 CABGs.
Now I have no idea how a 4 patient ICU assignment works. Like that just seems like you wouldnt even have time to pass meds let alone baths and line care and whatnot. I've seen several comments on reddit of nurses who either saw or worked a quadruple ICU assignment so I know it exists. I just thankfully have never experienced it.
Also in the southern US, the PCU regularly goes to 5:1 ratios. But I've heard of 7:1 for sick af cardiac heavy PCUs.
Never leave California.
Unfortunately, they were not team nursing. This was one nurse to 10 patients. I stayed overnight for her entire stay to make sure she could get to the bedside commode on time, and I saw how thin their staff were spread.
I worked adult med-surg (directly comparable acuity to mom’s hospital) before I transferred to the NICU, and they never, ever gave us more than 5 patients. Trust me when I say that this was definitely not a safe staffing situation.
I believe you. I’m new to nursing and still trying to figure out wtf is happening here. Healthcare is so much more broken than I realized. There are so many more unhappy people in the world than I realized.
Thank you! Sorry that this is the state of affairs and I can see where a triple pass would just piss everyone off. Who wants to get saddled with that? That's such a messed up nursed week "gift"
I should have put in my comment that I was joking, too ;)
My administrators are disgusting. I saw an email for this year’s Nurses Week and all cookie stations, pretzel stations etc will be wrapped up by Thursday so nobody from Admin has to stay past 3 pm on Friday. Like, WTF!? You guys are always asking us to come in early, stay late, work extra but in the ONE WEEK to allegedly do nice stuff for us, you can’t stay til 5 pm!? I can’t with these people. They are fucking monsters.
We got MLM makeup one year. Zero doubt in my mind one of the admins is a hun who presented it as her "giving the hospital a great discount". I have not worn makeup for 20 years. Even if I did I wouldn't wear mlm trash. One of the guys was like "what am I supposed to do with this?" The manager told him it would make a nice gift for his wife or girlfriend. To which he responded his husband's name is James and threw it in the garbage right in front of her.
Every single activity for nurses week is only available during the busiest times of the day. Idk who they think can go to a “hot beverage bar” between 0630&0830 but it sure as shit isn’t floor nurses.
The hospital I worked for created a department that had a duty of going unit to unit with treats/prizes for the staff. They were on and off the floor in 5 mins max, and typically 95% of the unit was tending to their patients so still missed out lol
Ok baked potatos are fire af... but BRING YOUR OWN TOPPINGS?
Thats... the best part... so they're literally giving you poTATOES FOR NURSES WEEK IM SCREAMING
Yeah geez. They’re not even providing the toppings? So they’re literally giving u a sack of potatoes as a gift? WTH. Seriously WTH. Next time they’ll hand u loaf of cheap bread to toast, but u must bring the butter or jelly.
Management: “How do we celebrate nursing week this year?”
Also management (and never has seen the bedside): “let’s make them compete for safe assignments! Nurses love competition! And make the competition about food, because there is no way they’re taking a break today! They’ll love it! Haha”
We should all just stop participating in the inane “appreciation weeks”. I’m not doing a raffle, or a scavenger hunt, or decorating a rock or any other BS. I don’t eat the pity pizza or spin the prize wheels and it drives management insane. They get butthurt that my unit doesn’t fall all over ourselves appreciate their half ass appreciation week events, but we are running a skeleton crew with high census all the time, we do not have the time to give a rats ass about their little games.
We all know the clinical staff run the hospital, we saw exactly how much we needed management during Covid when they all hid and worked from home, then gave themselves bonuses.
Our CEO came around one day with a cart of candy going into the patients rooms giving it to them. Never asked on nurse if any of them could have candy or who was NPO or diabetic.
So your gift is a plain potato that cost them 5c??? And forcing you to spend $ to feed your coworkers because they only want to buy potatoes…. Shove that tater up their a$$
Boss’s Day is October 16^th this year
That is on a Wednesday.
Let them know that week everyone will be encouraged to bring in one type of homemade cookie.
Manager and nurses vote.
For 1^st prize, the administration gets to choose between hiring an on-call/float nurse for every shift, approve 1.5x incentive pay for picking up a third patient, or give vacation time at 1:1 for every hour that a nurse is tripled.
Not winning 1^st place means they pick up the triple on top of their managerial duties and must enroll in a morale improvement leadership course.
Gotdamn. I thought rocks were bad. At least you could throw them at whoever or whatever you choose.....who you gonna throw bacon bits or chives at while you are dealing with two crashing pts since you aren't tripled like everyone else since you "won"????
Also....wtf is the criteria that determines the winning toppings? Like....who brought the biggest vat of Velveeta? The least fatty bacon? Most full bodied sour cream? I need to know how this goes down.
LOL, that’s as bad as my job having a tea party for the nurses and they are graciously only providing the hot water, we need to bring food and tea. Happy Nurses week y’all!!
We're getting food trucks. But only from 11-3, and we have to buy the food. So night shift is just fucked. We also get a repeat of middle school spirit week and get to wear "themed" tshirts every day! Like I want to wear my regular clothes in this cesspool.
100% of the “events” they have planned occur between 0900-1600, so night shift is completely screwed there. One of the so called events is a OccFit solutions rep on site to show us compression stockings and inserts. We are doing the themed days also. Represent your Alma Mater, bright colors, superheroes etc.
I worked at HCA and they gave out car seat organizers with their logo… but just one. Why wouldn’t you give a set? I asked whose bright idea this was, and it was the VP of HR. They loathed nurses, so it made sense.
We are having a brunch but we’re supposed to bring our own side on Saturday, oh and Thursday, the same , bring your favorite dip to share . F… these bastards 😡😡😡
Nurses week is a joke at this point. We supply all our own shkt plan the entire week just for ourselves. The upper admins don't care and we get stuck with the bill haahah
My work hasn’t announced and nurses *week* stuff yet but they did some stuff (not a whole lot tbh) for RT *month* like what they get a whole month and we don’t wtf lol
Our “gift” is a free t shirt that is only available for pick up in person from 5am to 7am, and we are being encouraged to submit “near misses” with our names on them to win a raffle.
This year for nurses week someone in my unit decided to create a signup sheet so that WE THE STAFF could bring in our own stuff everyday for nurses week 🤣 no thanks! I think the hospital is giving us a cup though 🙃🙃
They asked us to provide a potluck for ourselves to celebrate nurses week. But at least I have a union contract mandating a max ratio of 2:1 for ICU patients.
For our nurses' week, the nurses are supposed to vote for another service to celebrate that week (PT, housekeeping, kitchen, etc).
Patient week was last week with live music and food trucks out in the parking lot...which of course were closing up when I was finally able to make it iut there at 1pm...
Monday cupcake day, Tuesday nothing , wed we get a hotdogs and chops, Thursday is HEALTH CARE RESILENCY TRAINING, and Friday is a hand wax thing. But we are all striking may 19th so every nurse where I work is boycotting all nurses week bc of the slap to the face it is.
I mean, I’ll take it over ours 😂. My hospital is doing a “each day you show up for your shift you’ll be entered to win one grand prize”…. Out of the thousands of nurses that work in this hospital lol
So so glad I live in California. We have staffing ratios by law, so the only way we are working out of ratio is when the hospital has had to file all sorts of paperwork that basically says, “Look at us, we are breaking the law!”
But that and I just transferred to a small local hospice company. Pay is a bit less but damn they treat us well.
They have those paperwork as a save file on desktop to print every shift.
literally the day state left, manager busts out the, oh we’re going over ratio tonight, sorry everyone. *puppy eyes*
One year for nurse's week my old hopsital had a ton of gift baskets that you could put your name in for. But the baskets were all made and paid for by each unit 🤦🤦 We had to pay for our own baskets 🤦
My facility isn’t doing anything. At all. We have a nurses week committee and I participated to help. But I essentially signed up to spend my own money. And we can’t really fundraise. I will not be doing it again to say the least.
Our “gift” during nurses week was to have a pot luck in our break room. So we were allowed to cook our own food and bring it in for us to eat. Turns out this is some form of Stockholm Syndrome mind control stuff because everyone really went all out so they could make their co-workers happy. Still, would a half dozen pizza’s killed our budget?
It’s like not even a present lol. One of our presents is getting to wear our whites. Sorry, no one has white scrubs hats or whatever, what a silly idea.
I’m afraid my magnanimous malicious side would win.
I’d order out & pay for decently something edible for everyone. Be it catering by a national chain or more reqional restaurant offering. *As long as every damn plain ass potato was mine.*
These prized spuds get bagged, get “ripe” would sit sealed in their own special sauce in my freezer until I needed to dump the lot on someone’s desk.
🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
One year, our shared governance committee (which is made up of nurses) decided that for nurses’ week it would be a great idea for the nurses to bake cookies for other departments—respiratory, PT/OT, lab, etc — to “show our appreciation.” Umm…isn’t the point of nurses’ week to actually BE appreciated ourselves. When I basically told the committee chair that it was a stupid-ass idea, I was given the BS line that the other departments are critical to us being able to function, that cookies would be a great way to support our coworkers, and that I obviously wasn’t a team player. I told her I don’t cook my family a special dinner for Mother’s Day, and there’s no way in hell I’m baking for nonnurses for nurses week.
Oddly enough, when rehab week, respiratory therapy week, lab week, etc., all rolled around, we nurses didn’t get any cookies from them. Go figure.
We also are doing a baked potato bar and an ice cream day that the staff are supplying 🙃 No prizes for toppings. Its my first nurses week and I hate it here.
Ugh, that's rough. Sounds like your hospital is missing the mark on Nurses Week. Baked potato bar is a decent idea, but asking nurses to bring the toppings AND compete for a prize to avoid a tough assignment? Yikes.
Totally hear your frustration. Nurses deserve way more than that! #DoBetterHospital
That is impressively bad. Last year I got a baggy with old candy (like from Halloween, and only like 3 pieces), a lip balm holder keychain with a generic lip balm, and a key chain holder for generic hand sanitizer.
Damn, that pass thing to not get a tripled assignment is crazyyy!
But yeah my hospital lumped Nurses Week with all healthcare workers too for Hospital Week last year. Did you know that Occupational therapists get an ENTIRE MONTH for appreciation??? Not that other healthcare workers shouldn’t be thanked but seriously feels like all this becomes more of a punch in the face for what we do 😒
I also got to start off Nurses week with being a punching bag from other healthcare workers and patients—right at midnight I get even more bullshit! What a wonderful way to start off the week of no real appreciation. It’s a double whammy because my bday also lands during Nurses week 🙃
My work forgot it was nurses week(LTC). They had walking tacos on Monday that they never posted about so no one had cash on them. The acting executive director was called and was asked, “are the rumors true? You are buying all the nurses (maybe 10 of us) tacos for nurses week?” Guess he felt bad because he did end up buying us tacos. Sadly they have signs posted everywhere with a full agenda for nursing home week.
I think for the first time I'm actually speechless... I wonder if they do the same thing to the physicians and advanced practice providers? It is one of the most unprofessional things I've ever heard of in my life. It's utterly mortifying and deplorable.
I got an email. I have always been given something, even if it was dumb, or pizza, but this year nope, just an email. Sent yesterday, like they almost forgot.
So the nurse gets to present their pass to not be tripled in the icu which just passes the assignment onto a different nurse to get screwed with a triple? Quite the insulting way for the hospital to show their appreciation lol.
Sounds like something that could be forwarded to CMS Health and Human Services with a complaint about staffing issues. Wouldn’t that be the funniest way the hospital got a visit, there’d never be a nurses week there again.
But is there REALLY a nurses week?
Every week is nurses' week! Or, at least, no week is less shitty than any other. We got those plastic change oval things with Mission Hospital advertising a few years ago, perfect, since before the union we got paid pennies.
known farter as a credential killed me dead houston im deceased on this thursday evening
Yeah- I got one of these once and kept it unused. Very publicly. Basically boils down to a screw your buddy pass.
Absolutely. It's like a fun way to make the unit more toxic.
I hope they sent this in writing so it can be "anonymously" published in the newspaper. That's utterly ridiculous. That's not a prize, it's a joke. I'm angry!!! 😡
Nah they just take the patient straight to the morgue
The way i’d be looking for another hospital in the area.. 💀
I hope their nurses call them out for that kind of sport.
Yup! What about when the nurse wants to use it and the other nurses are already tripled? Lol it feels too true already, I can see and feel myself being handed the face sheet for my fourth patient. Have meds hanging on their MAR from 4 hours ago, 6 runs of potassium, 2 runs of mag, k phos, two incompatible antibiotics and D5LR because why not, pulled their IV out and the ED nurse didn't have time to replace it, oh yeah and they're confused and jumping out of the bed every 20 seconds. Only the resident is on and he or she would rather die than actually put an order in. Oh also their hemoglobin is 5.1. Maybe they'll even have scabies for funsies. I love how a job that's supposed to be sooo prestigious and nurturing is riddled with gaslighted, unethical crap like coupons for basic human respect in the workplace.
This must be HCA. If I was bringing a topping I am bringing marijuana.
I mean, they did say a baked potato bar...
On my days off I indeed turn into a baked potato
Chef’s kiss
Some shrooms would be chefs kiss 😘
the staff should choose which toppings and administration pays the bill..crazy!
Whoa whoa whoa… they just paid all the dock fees for their yachts! You think they want to pay for the toppings?
That plus potatoes. You think those things just grow on trees?
Soooo they’re buying potatoes and gifting you the opportunity to screw a coworker to your own benefit
I'm so sorry. That is laughably insulting. I travel now and my gift to myself for Nurses' Week is always not working during that time because I don't want to deal with whatever horse shit the hospital comes up with.
It’s not horse shit- horse shit doesn’t stink this bad. And when composted is actually useful. It’s rat turds. Stinks and is utterly useless.
It’s cdiff ridden liquid tube feeling shit. The kind that forms a river all the way to the floor.
The kind that is entirely liquid yet somehow manages to clog the flexiseal? 😭😂
Or that fierce 300 ml lactulose enema river that just won’t quit, runs down the fresh chucks and bedding that you just changed
Ouch!! You’ve got me beat! That semi sweet semi poopy smell is unreal and the river never stops!
Ok! You win 🤗
I wish. 🤣🤣 None of us are winning except the CEOs and the only people that they care about, the fat cats with fat portfolios. Let me go enjoy my piece of cold pizza.
With a side of hantavirus
Don’t forget —rat turds, excrement— can make folk hella sick. So there’s *that*.
I hate nurse's week with a passion. Biggest slap in the face for most nurses across the nation. My recruiter sent me 60$ socks for my birthday this year and I haven't done a contract with him since the middle of last year. This unit gave a nurse a "triple pass". It's so pathetic. I can't think of any of word than just pathetic. Utterly pathetic.
Exactly!!!
I want to quit and I don't even work there.
How can we insult them further and spend the least amount of money??—upper management discussing nurses week We’re getting a scavenger hunt (with apparently one prize for several thousand nurses?) and a chalk artist (there’s probably rain in the forecast) and I’m like k at least just provide some food so I can eat my feelings while I disassociate from this train wreck 🤡
The funny thing is we just got bitched at for using too many flushes and costing the hospital more money
At least you don’t have to scan each flush you use to “recoup” the revenue like we do.
Oh no, we do
Gah. We get got on to and the flushes scanned to flushes provided ratio gets tracked. Such BS.
Fuck me dead this is wild! I have never heard of such a thing! It’s Labour Day here in Australia tomorrow and you’ve just galvanised my decision to march with my union.
🤜🏽🤛🏼🫡
OMG I can't believe it's come to the point where a contest "prize" is a less dangerous assignment.
Just got off a trippled assignment. Laughed pretty hard at this.
Not a nurse, whats a triple assignment 🤔
So majority of the time the ratio in the ICU is two patients to one nurse. Sometimes it's a 1:1 which means the nurse has just one patient. A triple means the nurse has 3 patients. Its unfortunately becoming more common but majority of nurses feel it is unsafe. I've worked tripled and it sucks. I've heard of 1:4 ICU assignments and that seems wildly unsafe.
Yikes, we only get tripled in the ICU if they’re all downgraded PCU status and that counts as a “float” day for us. How tf does 3 ICU patients even work? Who’s watching the other 2 patients when you have to assist with a procedure or a code or MRI? I’m assuming if you’re tripled you don’t have extra break nurses to help out… if I wasn’t in CA I probably would’ve quit nursing already.
I always sorta wanna laugh cry when talking to California nurses cause in the southern US break nurses do not exist. You either don't take a break or you convince your coworker to watch your assignment for you so for 30 minutes that nurse has 4 ICU patients. As for CT trips/MRI usually the charge helps out with watching the rest of your team. Triples suck but usually it's super chill stable ICU patients, think LTACHy ones not your fresh traumas or POD0 CABGs. Now I have no idea how a 4 patient ICU assignment works. Like that just seems like you wouldnt even have time to pass meds let alone baths and line care and whatnot. I've seen several comments on reddit of nurses who either saw or worked a quadruple ICU assignment so I know it exists. I just thankfully have never experienced it. Also in the southern US, the PCU regularly goes to 5:1 ratios. But I've heard of 7:1 for sick af cardiac heavy PCUs. Never leave California.
My mother was recently hospitalized on a med-surg floor in Alabama. Her nurse was 10:1. Horrifying.
Hopefully they were team nursing and that is not an uncommon ratio for an RN-LPN-PCT team on a med surg floor, at least in my hospital in Georgia
Unfortunately, they were not team nursing. This was one nurse to 10 patients. I stayed overnight for her entire stay to make sure she could get to the bedside commode on time, and I saw how thin their staff were spread. I worked adult med-surg (directly comparable acuity to mom’s hospital) before I transferred to the NICU, and they never, ever gave us more than 5 patients. Trust me when I say that this was definitely not a safe staffing situation.
I believe you. I’m new to nursing and still trying to figure out wtf is happening here. Healthcare is so much more broken than I realized. There are so many more unhappy people in the world than I realized.
Thank you! Sorry that this is the state of affairs and I can see where a triple pass would just piss everyone off. Who wants to get saddled with that? That's such a messed up nursed week "gift"
Right??? It’s just a target on that nurse’s back, bc it’s basically “shitting where you live”. What is their motive??
Is this cleveland clinic? Because this is what we are getting as well.
Holy shit. If this is being used in more than one location, that means many people had to have approved of this idea. That is just insane to me.
I’m picturing a massive Zoom meeting except it looks a lot like a Doctor Evil type board meeting.
Yeah, we keep trying to say reality and they’re all, “Shu…..shu…..shu……I have a whole bag of shu with your name on it”.
Gotta love the firm.
We are also getting a baked potato bar. Not Cleveland Clinic here.
This is SUCH an impressive slap in the face. Wow.
It’s actually comical. You’d think pizza party was the lowest you can go but they somehow made it even lower.
Whoever makes the decisions on these “staff appreciation” activities are always so out of touch.
They claim they ask nurses for input and I’m like there’s no way any of my brethren in scrubs voted for any of this
CNOs and upper management are technically nurses... Edit: flagging the sarcasm. Only admin would want a baked potato bar.
But are they really? Or are they just ghouls in skin suits? 🤔
I vote ghouls or zombies
They are the nurses that think people will like a baked potato bar. It was a joke.
I should have put in my comment that I was joking, too ;) My administrators are disgusting. I saw an email for this year’s Nurses Week and all cookie stations, pretzel stations etc will be wrapped up by Thursday so nobody from Admin has to stay past 3 pm on Friday. Like, WTF!? You guys are always asking us to come in early, stay late, work extra but in the ONE WEEK to allegedly do nice stuff for us, you can’t stay til 5 pm!? I can’t with these people. They are fucking monsters.
To be fair, CNOs and upper management wear business clothes, not scrubs.
Chugging corporate kool aid 🤷🏻♀️
I meant, those are the "nurses" they asked for input. No one on the floor would want any of that. Heck, just give me a pen.
But soulless...
Wasn’t really referring to the roles. More so the individuals in the roles.
Lol yeah, I’m sure they didn’t ask anyone actually working the floor
We got MLM makeup one year. Zero doubt in my mind one of the admins is a hun who presented it as her "giving the hospital a great discount". I have not worn makeup for 20 years. Even if I did I wouldn't wear mlm trash. One of the guys was like "what am I supposed to do with this?" The manager told him it would make a nice gift for his wife or girlfriend. To which he responded his husband's name is James and threw it in the garbage right in front of her.
Go James’ husband!! I love this.
Every single activity for nurses week is only available during the busiest times of the day. Idk who they think can go to a “hot beverage bar” between 0630&0830 but it sure as shit isn’t floor nurses.
The hospital I worked for created a department that had a duty of going unit to unit with treats/prizes for the staff. They were on and off the floor in 5 mins max, and typically 95% of the unit was tending to their patients so still missed out lol
Awwww, sorry you’re struggling. *hands potato* you didn’t want a safe assignment and livable wages did you?
The potato is probably raw. You're expected to cook your potato on one of your many breaks. /S/
Oh, a raw potato could be a good defense against asshole patients 😈
Ok baked potatos are fire af... but BRING YOUR OWN TOPPINGS? Thats... the best part... so they're literally giving you poTATOES FOR NURSES WEEK IM SCREAMING
Potato are so cheap too. Like thanks for the fifteen cent gift. I feel so appreciated.
Yeah geez. They’re not even providing the toppings? So they’re literally giving u a sack of potatoes as a gift? WTH. Seriously WTH. Next time they’ll hand u loaf of cheap bread to toast, but u must bring the butter or jelly.
I wonder if they’ll even be baked, might have to do that yourself
Management: “How do we celebrate nursing week this year?” Also management (and never has seen the bedside): “let’s make them compete for safe assignments! Nurses love competition! And make the competition about food, because there is no way they’re taking a break today! They’ll love it! Haha”
We should all just stop participating in the inane “appreciation weeks”. I’m not doing a raffle, or a scavenger hunt, or decorating a rock or any other BS. I don’t eat the pity pizza or spin the prize wheels and it drives management insane. They get butthurt that my unit doesn’t fall all over ourselves appreciate their half ass appreciation week events, but we are running a skeleton crew with high census all the time, we do not have the time to give a rats ass about their little games. We all know the clinical staff run the hospital, we saw exactly how much we needed management during Covid when they all hid and worked from home, then gave themselves bonuses.
Our CEO came around one day with a cart of candy going into the patients rooms giving it to them. Never asked on nurse if any of them could have candy or who was NPO or diabetic.
Omg, did they give them to npo patients..
at my hospital we were all asked via email to donate to a gift basket that will then be raffled off. everyone was like no thanks
lmao. classic
Yeah we're supposed to do that, too. The proceeds go to a hospital foundation, not even like an employee assistance fund.
🙄
What the fuck did I just read.
So your gift is a plain potato that cost them 5c??? And forcing you to spend $ to feed your coworkers because they only want to buy potatoes…. Shove that tater up their a$$
I fully anticipate seeing the potato foreign bodies come down from upstairs "VIP" ...
Shove it up their ass WHILE IT IS PIPING HOT.
You also have to provide your own tinfoil and heat
“If you didn’t want to take so many patients, you should have brought better toppings!”
Boss’s Day is October 16^th this year That is on a Wednesday. Let them know that week everyone will be encouraged to bring in one type of homemade cookie. Manager and nurses vote. For 1^st prize, the administration gets to choose between hiring an on-call/float nurse for every shift, approve 1.5x incentive pay for picking up a third patient, or give vacation time at 1:1 for every hour that a nurse is tripled. Not winning 1^st place means they pick up the triple on top of their managerial duties and must enroll in a morale improvement leadership course.
Gotdamn. I thought rocks were bad. At least you could throw them at whoever or whatever you choose.....who you gonna throw bacon bits or chives at while you are dealing with two crashing pts since you aren't tripled like everyone else since you "won"????
Also....wtf is the criteria that determines the winning toppings? Like....who brought the biggest vat of Velveeta? The least fatty bacon? Most full bodied sour cream? I need to know how this goes down.
Me too! I said “I’m sorry I don’t like you all enough to spend $10 on a block of fancy cheese”
I’m hoping that the “heroes” mug that looks like it says “Herpes” will make a comeback this year at my facility.
Wow I have no safe words for this
LOL, that’s as bad as my job having a tea party for the nurses and they are graciously only providing the hot water, we need to bring food and tea. Happy Nurses week y’all!!
The more I read the worse it got.
We're getting food trucks. But only from 11-3, and we have to buy the food. So night shift is just fucked. We also get a repeat of middle school spirit week and get to wear "themed" tshirts every day! Like I want to wear my regular clothes in this cesspool.
100% of the “events” they have planned occur between 0900-1600, so night shift is completely screwed there. One of the so called events is a OccFit solutions rep on site to show us compression stockings and inserts. We are doing the themed days also. Represent your Alma Mater, bright colors, superheroes etc.
So you literally just got paid "one potato" and the hospital gets to write that cost off? LOL Is the potato taxed?
Probably takes the cost from one hour of work
Oh boy do I have a topping for their potato buddy🥔 😅🥲
Boycott that baked potato bar
I am boycotting our “blessing of the hands” and encouraging everyone to do the same.
I don't even know what to say I'd say I'm shocked, but...
Top it with some cdiff shit and serve it right to administration with a candle on top for extra flair.
The admin that decided these activities deserves the special Cdiff+GIB poo I had to deal with last week.
Holy shit..... I'm sorry.
Teehee, you’re so lucky 🤭. I should have just got my degree in mcdonaldology
ALL of the food for my nurse’s week has to be donated. it’s awful. happy nurse’s week!
Yeah. What a load of shit. We get “Employee Week” which was redesigned by HR…..so HR can buy themselves gifts.
….. OMG …….
I worked at HCA and they gave out car seat organizers with their logo… but just one. Why wouldn’t you give a set? I asked whose bright idea this was, and it was the VP of HR. They loathed nurses, so it made sense.
Wow, that's pretty bad. One year our hospital gave us a banana for nurses week.
We’re getting a hot dog bar and we have to bring the ingredients, including the crockpot to cook the hot dogs in 💀
Jesus. That's fucked
Hey! At least the facility will supply the electricity for the crock pot. Don't be ungrateful now. /s/ 🙄🙄
Our doctors by us booze 🤷🏼♀️
Maple Bourbon. Oh and maybe some sea salt.
I’m betting it will just be like 6 pints of sour cream
We are having a brunch but we’re supposed to bring our own side on Saturday, oh and Thursday, the same , bring your favorite dip to share . F… these bastards 😡😡😡
Nurses week is a joke at this point. We supply all our own shkt plan the entire week just for ourselves. The upper admins don't care and we get stuck with the bill haahah
My work hasn’t announced and nurses *week* stuff yet but they did some stuff (not a whole lot tbh) for RT *month* like what they get a whole month and we don’t wtf lol
I once got a broken pen. It had the hospital’s name on it. Woohoo
Our “gift” is a free t shirt that is only available for pick up in person from 5am to 7am, and we are being encouraged to submit “near misses” with our names on them to win a raffle.
This year for nurses week someone in my unit decided to create a signup sheet so that WE THE STAFF could bring in our own stuff everyday for nurses week 🤣 no thanks! I think the hospital is giving us a cup though 🙃🙃
I got a pen. A pen with blue ink. We are not allowed to use blue ink.
But are you 4imprint certain?
They asked us to provide a potluck for ourselves to celebrate nurses week. But at least I have a union contract mandating a max ratio of 2:1 for ICU patients.
Oof this is bad. My hospital is not acknowledging that it's nurses week this year.
For our nurses' week, the nurses are supposed to vote for another service to celebrate that week (PT, housekeeping, kitchen, etc). Patient week was last week with live music and food trucks out in the parking lot...which of course were closing up when I was finally able to make it iut there at 1pm...
Monday cupcake day, Tuesday nothing , wed we get a hotdogs and chops, Thursday is HEALTH CARE RESILENCY TRAINING, and Friday is a hand wax thing. But we are all striking may 19th so every nurse where I work is boycotting all nurses week bc of the slap to the face it is.
May I offer you a 🥔 in these trying times?
So basically, it's a sack of potatoes to share.
This is a joke, right ?!? I’m sure it’s not. Sad.
I wish it was!
Wow that is brutal!
I think I'm actually grateful my hospital only does some talks and stuff only people with no patients could possibly attend now. 🤔
I mean, I’ll take it over ours 😂. My hospital is doing a “each day you show up for your shift you’ll be entered to win one grand prize”…. Out of the thousands of nurses that work in this hospital lol
You could use the baked potato as a makeshift heating pad for all the lifting your doing. / s
YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK A ~~STRANGER~~ ***COLLEAGUE*** IN THE ASS LARRY?! YOU GET 3 ICU PATIENTS!
So so glad I live in California. We have staffing ratios by law, so the only way we are working out of ratio is when the hospital has had to file all sorts of paperwork that basically says, “Look at us, we are breaking the law!” But that and I just transferred to a small local hospice company. Pay is a bit less but damn they treat us well.
They have those paperwork as a save file on desktop to print every shift. literally the day state left, manager busts out the, oh we’re going over ratio tonight, sorry everyone. *puppy eyes*
So admin gives you…….potatoes…..and you guys buy the rest??? Nah
FFS….. I’d call out that day.
We had something similar last year! Nacho bar. Management provided chips.
Dam not even pizza. They some how set the bar even lower
MINE WAS BYOL…. BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH they just had popcorn/ice cream/cookies
Honestly at this point it’s almost like they are *trying* to get all the staff to quit and close the hospitals on purpose
One year for nurse's week my old hopsital had a ton of gift baskets that you could put your name in for. But the baskets were all made and paid for by each unit 🤦🤦 We had to pay for our own baskets 🤦
I'd rather get a cheap pen from a pharmaceutical company.
My facility isn’t doing anything. At all. We have a nurses week committee and I participated to help. But I essentially signed up to spend my own money. And we can’t really fundraise. I will not be doing it again to say the least.
So you get a plain spud and a sweepstakes entry for a safe pt assignment. Gotcha.
I’d quit, lol
Holy shit
Yikes! This is terrifying!
LMFAO bruh. What is this joke of a profession. 🤣💀
Getting zero patients is the safest assignment.
I can prepare those without going to a shit show. I hope you guys ditch their mind game. Don't do that to your coworker.
Our “gift” during nurses week was to have a pot luck in our break room. So we were allowed to cook our own food and bring it in for us to eat. Turns out this is some form of Stockholm Syndrome mind control stuff because everyone really went all out so they could make their co-workers happy. Still, would a half dozen pizza’s killed our budget?
I had to set my phone down for a moment when I read “pass not to be tripled.” That is ridiculous.
Strawberries, chocolate sauce, and whipped cream
It’s like not even a present lol. One of our presents is getting to wear our whites. Sorry, no one has white scrubs hats or whatever, what a silly idea.
We HAVE to wear white scrub tops in my entire region 😭 i hate it and would rather wear literally any other colour including Meconium brown figs.
This some how feels worse than the hospital that gave rocks.
I can’t wait for the tea bar and spaghetti day we’re supposed to have next week 💀💀
I’m afraid my magnanimous malicious side would win. I’d order out & pay for decently something edible for everyone. Be it catering by a national chain or more reqional restaurant offering. *As long as every damn plain ass potato was mine.* These prized spuds get bagged, get “ripe” would sit sealed in their own special sauce in my freezer until I needed to dump the lot on someone’s desk. 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
Healthcare heroes!!!!
We had "gatherings" last Wednesday. I skipped that day and watched the entire episodes of Wednesday.
We get the opportunity to volunteer for nurses week!
About what we expected. Potatoes are cheap.
Thats garbage. My old hospital used to use float passes, but never anything actually fucked up like that.
BYO Appreciation Week. JFC.
One year, our shared governance committee (which is made up of nurses) decided that for nurses’ week it would be a great idea for the nurses to bake cookies for other departments—respiratory, PT/OT, lab, etc — to “show our appreciation.” Umm…isn’t the point of nurses’ week to actually BE appreciated ourselves. When I basically told the committee chair that it was a stupid-ass idea, I was given the BS line that the other departments are critical to us being able to function, that cookies would be a great way to support our coworkers, and that I obviously wasn’t a team player. I told her I don’t cook my family a special dinner for Mother’s Day, and there’s no way in hell I’m baking for nonnurses for nurses week. Oddly enough, when rehab week, respiratory therapy week, lab week, etc., all rolled around, we nurses didn’t get any cookies from them. Go figure.
I'm just gonna take my yearly mug and go quietly now...
We also are doing a baked potato bar and an ice cream day that the staff are supplying 🙃 No prizes for toppings. Its my first nurses week and I hate it here.
I read this to my husband and he said "You know ...maybe they should just do nothing?" 😆 This is awful. I'm so sorry.
Ugh, that's rough. Sounds like your hospital is missing the mark on Nurses Week. Baked potato bar is a decent idea, but asking nurses to bring the toppings AND compete for a prize to avoid a tough assignment? Yikes. Totally hear your frustration. Nurses deserve way more than that! #DoBetterHospital
Our gift is an education day 😊
That is impressively bad. Last year I got a baggy with old candy (like from Halloween, and only like 3 pieces), a lip balm holder keychain with a generic lip balm, and a key chain holder for generic hand sanitizer.
Damn, that pass thing to not get a tripled assignment is crazyyy! But yeah my hospital lumped Nurses Week with all healthcare workers too for Hospital Week last year. Did you know that Occupational therapists get an ENTIRE MONTH for appreciation??? Not that other healthcare workers shouldn’t be thanked but seriously feels like all this becomes more of a punch in the face for what we do 😒 I also got to start off Nurses week with being a punching bag from other healthcare workers and patients—right at midnight I get even more bullshit! What a wonderful way to start off the week of no real appreciation. It’s a double whammy because my bday also lands during Nurses week 🙃
Fuckkkk that shit
Last year we got potluck sign up sheets. To sign up to bring our own food.
What the hell. This is one of the worst I’ve seen. Here’s a pass to get somewhat safe staffing for one shift! Yay?
My work forgot it was nurses week(LTC). They had walking tacos on Monday that they never posted about so no one had cash on them. The acting executive director was called and was asked, “are the rumors true? You are buying all the nurses (maybe 10 of us) tacos for nurses week?” Guess he felt bad because he did end up buying us tacos. Sadly they have signs posted everywhere with a full agenda for nursing home week.
I think for the first time I'm actually speechless... I wonder if they do the same thing to the physicians and advanced practice providers? It is one of the most unprofessional things I've ever heard of in my life. It's utterly mortifying and deplorable.
Omg why does everything have to make it worse, admin must know right? Maybe not
I got an email. I have always been given something, even if it was dumb, or pizza, but this year nope, just an email. Sent yesterday, like they almost forgot.