My wife got a notepad and I got a pen. We were told that together we could take notes. Under my breath I said "On how many times we've had to cover for your mistakes"
At least that one's actually cash and as such is related to one of the things nurses need - better pay - rather than the bonus/gift equivalent of giving a weekly rounds of applause for healthcare workers instead of funding during a pandemic. A patronizingly low amount of cash that would only really work on a single 10 year old (and in today's economy that's a maybe) rather than a room full of adults, but... Still actually cash.
I worked in customer service and I feel this. The company spent all kinds of money on stupid "gifts" that either got thrown in a drawer or the garbage by the end of the week. One year we got a banner on a stand for each of our desks with the company logo. I would have rather them take that money and give it to us or just buy us some pens with it.
Not to be unkind, but how easily you can refill a position usually influences salary too. Nurses are highly skilled, which gets them paid more than fast food. However there's always more nurses graduating, or coming back to work after a sabbatical (like my mom did after staying at home with us for 10-15 years). Nurses are rad, I'm just being pragmatic. I have been in admin asst roles for over half my life, so I can appreciate feeling overworked and undervalued (not as much as nurses objectively are, however).
Oh, he is. Administration just won't know about it. Secretly, there will be a raving party in the basement, and each nurse will have one of their days off actually protected and not be called in for staff shortage.
Spot on! As the dinosaur in this group Nurses Week used to be a actual week of activities, fancy lunch, raffles and various gifts. It's down to something ridiculous with the name of the facility/agency emblazoned on it. Happy Nurses 5 minute celebration! Now get back to work!
Most Doctors are fully aware and not happy with it. Doctors are just as much a cog in the machine as nurses and don't have much say in anything pertaining to their pay, treatment, or bonuses. This comes back to hospitals that are managed by CEOs who report to insurance companies.
The first "half" in half-and-half is because the hospital wouldn't be half as good without them, but the second "half" in half-and-half is because the nurses are paid half what they deserve.
When I was nursing I felt the pay was good enough, it’s just they needed twice as many people to do the job they wanted us to do The way they wanted it done.
I have been a nurse for 30 years. I have gotten things this weak before for Nurses Week. A plastic holder for bandaids. A bag with a granola bar, a baseball cap, dollar store ear buds. A cheap umbrella. This year I did appreciate it when the chaplains came around and did a blessing of our hands. Luckily most nurses are not motivated by the thanks because otherwise there would be no nurses. Blessings to all my fellow nurses. ❤
Not a nurse but in dental field. My boss bought everyone weather stations. They were cheap, cheap plastic. We all returned them. They were seven dollars. I’m not ungrateful however it would have been better to give no gift at all than that cheap crap. A new coworker kept looking at everyone else at the luncheon. She thought it was a prank. I should have warned her not to expect anything.
It is said when giving gifts its always the thought that counts...After 47 years in Nursing this video is the best Nurses Week gift I ever received. Thank you for the thoughtful gift of humor.
It's teacher appreciate week. The student council gave us wafer bars and granola bars because "as teachers you set the bar high." No, this is not a joke. I kinda think the underpaid and overworked always seem to wind up as having appreciate weeks.
@@someyoungchild Right? Most people hear Labor Day and don't think "labor". Or they think labor means blue collar jobs. It's for everyone who must work at all in order to survive. It's for anyone who can't live off their capital investments or enormous fortune. It's about the right to a liveable wage and safe working conditions.
im new to my work, but at the hospital I was recently hired at, the administration actually talked to the nurses prior and asked them what they, as a collective, would like for nurse's week. the administration seems to already be on good terms with the nurses and has been for a while cause they talked and actually convinced the administration to try to get some equipment to ease the strains of care, including a 'hercules' bed system, to at least try it out and see how well it worked. So far I think it's been working great, i'm new to the hospital environment, but as a male CNA im used to more physically demanding tasks, and having something like that? Even if it's not being used on my patients, im not being asked to help with patients who it's being used on. The other techs are more upbeat than workers I've had in the past, the nurses aren't as against helping out with raising the patient up in bed, and don't need help when doing so, and overall the environment is a bit better. Heard we're getting like 5 more soon. EDIT: Also... "Toilet paper... cause oh god... im in a heaping pile of shit, aren't I?"
They sure don't. I just donated 3 coffee mugs to Salvation Army. Not sure just how many nurses week presents I've donated to SA over the past 32 years.
We got a Florance Nightingale impersonator to go from unit to unit and shake our hand... and a list of businesses where we can get a 20% discount... I would much rather have that $5!
Not gonna lie, I did like the little trinkets I got for Nurses’ week. They had a day for a cookout or catered lunch, free of charge, with music & raffles, Along with a small gift. Those were usually coffee cups with the hospital logo on them and something else. One year was a power bank; another year was a big old picnic blanket. Or coupons for the cafeteria so we could get either a bigger discount or free meal. Way back then, I worked for a hospital that actually appreciated their nurses so the atmosphere was better, the workload was easier, and we actually felt supported. That changed when it was sold to corporation. I worked at another hospital corporation & hated it. Worst experience ever. Everything they did, that they made the nurses put up with, was to make sure the hospital got paid by Medicare or other insurance companies, and made them money. They didn’t care how fast their nurse turnover was or how overloaded their staff was. Healthcare should not be run by a capitalist corporation. I have never believe that more strongly that I do now.
As an RN I'd rather just not have a "nurse week" I went to school to learn a trade to pay my bills. I don't buy into this nonsense and everybody is just annoyed. This video is spot on though.
Yeah, but that costs *money* and they don't wanna do that, so they'll shell out thousands of dollars on shitty gifts instead of bonuses because...that for some reason makes more sense in their minds. I hate people so much lol At the site I worked at as a phlebotomist, we got backpacks and a water bottle. I'm talking a well made backpack too. That shit was like easily $80-100 per person for the entire fucking state. We all collectively told them "hey, we'd prefer this as money, not as a gift," and they awkwardly stood there with these forced smiles and ignored that comment as hard as possible.
I like to say, if it ain't a lift team and a dedicated break relief nurse, I don't want it. (My state has safe staffing ratios, so that's not on the list)
It costs way more to hire one person for a wage they'll actually take the job at for an extended period of time (and benefits) than it does to spend $5 on an item for each nurse in the hospital once a year. I have literally seen multiple corporate hospitals penny-pinched into bankruptcy because large corporations benefit more from doing that than using them as normal businesses.
I did my part as a patient in the hospital for two and a half weeks I tried to tell the nurse everything I wanted in one interaction and didn’t try to get out of bed on my own I also tried to wait to ask if possible until they had to come in there because I worked in healthcare for 14 years
If I'm your nurse, please still call me! It's okay! I know it's easy to brush off how you feel and your own needs because you remember every patient who has "had it worse".... it's not a healthy mentality. I did that to myself without realizing it and ended up needing 4 surgeries in a year!
Lame gifts representing empty sentiments must be universal; May 8-12 is also teacher appreciation week '23 (coincidence? I think not!) and we've gotten some doozys...a pack of cards because we're always on top of our game (yo this ain't a casino, cards aren't gonna pay our bills!), pens because we're the "write" stuff, totes because we've got this in the bag...y'all how about the raises, increased PTO and staff/curriculum support we've been asking for all year?? 🙄
Former employer (not medical) had a year of record-breaking profits. In December, they placed a single small bowl of individual, flavored non-dairy coffee creamer cups along with a note about how much the company appreciated the employees' contribution to the company's success. There was also a note in larger font advising people to take only 1 coffee creamer per person per day.
Just retired after 35 years of dedication to the profession and parts of me really miss it (like the part that went back inside a restaurant after I saw this lovely teenager with her broken foot in her splint and she had it resting on the floor. I knew it was a recent injury by the way she walked into the place and I was right. Her mom thanked me for giving her the same advice she’d had already but didn’t seem to remember - like my helping her elevate her foot on a chair, etc etc etc), yet sadly the other parts of me won’t - the never getting a lunch break during a 12 hour shift, the shoving down whatever food or drink you could while charting on your “clients” also know as patients, the rare bathroom breaks you could take because the workload was so insane - and people could potentially die if you did, the rare times you actually had enough staff and when you did, management looked at sending people home because “we can’t be over staffed”, the recent knowledge that you might die because of going to work (yup that was working on a COVID floor at the height of the epidemic when they hadn’t invented the vaccine) or worrying you might kill a family member. Yes I know I saved 1000’s of lives over 35 years and I made a personal difference to many people yet I always forgot that “you’re replaceable” and that despite giving whenever your employer needed help, if you ever did - well, find a different job. I can only hope all the people I mentored in nursing are still doing well and are able to continue and hopefully pass on what I did for them. Because someday I know a nurse will stand over me when I can’t speak for myself and I hope he or she loves their job like I did.
Tonight I spent two hours making 4 dozen peanut butter rice krispie treats to take with me to the infusion room tomorrow. It's nowhere close to what the nurses deserve, but hopefully it makes them feel loved. Infusion nurses are the best 💙
You think this is bad... you should see the "gifts" we get as nursing assistants 🙄😭.... my nicest gift was a tumbler. But then my nurse manager told me I had to buy the plastic lid in the gift shop for $2.00 😂😂😂
Friendly reminder that the Mayo Clinic is currently threatening the MN government over a law that would improve nurse:pt ratios and make care safer with better conditions for staff in the state
My guess would be that the Mayo clinic is the one that does not want to improve nurse to patient ratio.That would be more costly for them.The Minnesota government, however, would be in favor of that because their state residents would be better taken care of. The Mayo clinic would not want to spend more money than necessary.
@Anne Bruecks Yeah, it looks like that's right. It was just so far from my preconceived notions of the Mayo Clinic that I wasn't sure if the grammar was wrong or I was.
its so much cheaper to spend about 1000 bucks for a whole hospital's worth of RNs than it is to give them raises. It is also cheaper to just pay your workers what they are worth so you dont have to spend over 1000 per WEEK PER travel RN for months at a time because so many of your own staff quit.
Haha he forgot to mention that gifts only apply to day shift. NOCs nurse here, have never once received anything from a hospital except the sad leftover bananas that day shift left behind. The best/worst I've ever seen was a basket of rocks that the nurses are supposed to paint and gift each other, because... nurses... rock.
Thank you Doc❤nobody understands that we literally love our patients back to life and we get resilience coffee once in a while. Covid was hard on us, so many people are gone. People are still dying from it. Just not filling up all units anymore. Thank You to the entire nurse support staff as a RN/BSN for 22 years. I’ve had some amazing experiences. Happy Nurses Week ❤
Every administrator should watch this and have to write 1000 words on why it’s funny and why they should be sad. Nurse homies, we APPs see you! I’m in your corner and I couldn’t do my job without you. None of us could. I’m sorry this is so funny because it’s so damn true. Thanks for sharing your pizza while we all cry together. I’ll give you my tiny flashlight for night shift! Y’all are incredible.
I got a calendar and a pack of gum from my supervisor team this year for nurses week 🎉 I’m a school nurse and Wednesday was school nurse day and nobody at my school cared or remembered because this week was also teacher appreciation week. You know what they got? They brought in a massage therapist to do chair massages for everyone. They got bouquets of flowers, breakfast and lunch served every day. Tomorrow is the last day, so we’ll see what amazing things Friday brings that I can leach off of and pretend are meant for me.
I am sorry. I didn't even know that there is School Nurse Day. Happy belated School Nurse Day. You and your kind are absolutely critical to the functioning of a school. Thank you on behalf of all educators everywhere.
I'm so sorry! I loved my school nurse, and my son used to go there to get a few minutes of reprieve and care from a stressful day!! You are awesome and appreciated 🎉
I’m baffled they didn’t include you in the activities, it would have been easy! It’s criminal nurse appreciation and teacher appreciation are the same week!
I recently spent a week in hospital (pericarditis) and introduced a lot of the nursing staff and cardiac staff to your channel. I find you funny (and correct) as a layman, I would think they would be laughing themselves into a coma during their break (if they ever get those).
My nurses got a tiny bag with a card talking about how important and appreciated they are and a little star fish pendant that you can probably put on a necklace or something? Oh. And the PRESENCE of a food truck that they have to pay for themselves.
The starfish charm is depressing. It's usually used as a metaphor for work that seems insignificant or endless. Not a good metaphor for motivating Nurses, I would think.
Ouch! How true is this sketch? lol! I worked at a specialty office affiliated with a moderately sized county hospital. They renamed Nurses' Week into Healthcare Week and sent a little basket of Tootsie Rolls to our office. I don't recall the little comment that accompanied the Tootsie Rolls. None of us expected to get a pat on the back, but we weren't exactly thrilled with the (probably old) Tootsie Rolls.
Last year, from administration, we got a pack of 12 mug rootbeers, cups, and ice cream from nutrition. Then, we were asked to make our own root beer floats. Staffing was worse next month
I must have lucked out, either I'm easy to please or our gifts are rad. We usually get stuff like hiking backpacks, stadium seat cushion things, a trunk organizer (that has been the most useful thing of my life 😆), super nice water bottles, roller backpack that's a cooler too, etc. We'll see what next week brings!
As a retired Registered Nurse, I can attest that the content of this video is accurate 👩⚕️. This is a FUNTASTIC 😊 😉 video! Every working nurse needs a Jonathan ❤️.
Very funny and true, I am never understanding why hospital administrations do so much metaphor gimmicks, when they’re looking to present gifts to nursing staff
This is the one video I was hoping to see comments along the lines of "haha good joke!" and not "yep, seen all of these and more". I'm so sorry you all go through this, you all deserve better :(
I'm a nurse and I can testify this is 100% accurate, or at least 100% how we feel!😂 It's nurses week and didn't even realize it because nothing's changed. Lol. This was awesome!
If this didn’t hit so close to the truth it might be funny. A huge Thank You to all of the nurses I have worked alongside for almost 40 years in hospital healthcare!
Man this is too real. My manager got us a hospital provided reusable grocery bag and a bag of Walmart brand popcorn this year. The theme was "Superstars". Oh, can't forget the cold Lil Ceasars pizza left over from dayshift 🙄
My last job offered us a “bonus” that must have been come up with by some weird algorithm. They said it was based on seniority but RNs who had been there for decades got less than RNs who were new grads and had been there for less than a year. BUT WAIT!! It gets better!! We were supposed to get half the bonus at the new year and the other half midway through the year BUT if we quit before the end of the year we had to pay back half of what we got. Mine was $500 but I ended up getting $250 since I had literally just put in my 2 weeks. I still get the occasional letter telling me I owe $120 or whatever.
Last year the nurses in Finland held protests for better pay and working conditions, and a common meme/mascot for the protests was a banana, because a story went viral of an employer who gave one single banana to a nurse to show their appreciation for how much nurses put in effort during the start of the pandemic.
I used to take patients to a hospital that gave their RNs rocks in a bag for nurses week one year. They were supposed to paint them with happy sayings and pretty colors. THEY GAVE THEM ROCKS!! Needless to say a lot of the rocks weren't painted with happy things on them.
😢 So sad for you, dear sister nurses! I know you deserve so much more, and so do the admins! Never mind, we get the appreciation from those who count most - our patients. Keep your chins up! You have everything to be proud of!
Oh man, this hits far too close to home. In my hospital, we got a small bag with an envelope containing an employee handbook as our thank you gift. It was a nice bag though. 😂
I felt all of these to the core. We also got glow sticks for night shift because "We light up the night".
Ha, ha! Were you expected to have a rave at work? Because I'd be having a rave at work that night.
Are those legal grounds for murder? Those feel like legal grounds for murder.
My wife got a notepad and I got a pen. We were told that together we could take notes. Under my breath I said "On how many times we've had to cover for your mistakes"
And the admin didn't die on the spot from the sheer force of your collective rage?!?! That's the real Gift of Nurses Week. Y'all are truly superhuman.
I’d rather get nothing
I love how his confidence gradually fades throughout the video
I was expecting his tie to slowly become undone
@@AznJsn82091 that would’ve been a good idea
As it should
You can really feel the withering glares lmao
He's almost ready to be a nurse now
I love how he didn’t even try to phone in a motivational line for the 5 dollar bill 😂
I expected him to begin ironing it 😁
At least that one's actually cash and as such is related to one of the things nurses need - better pay - rather than the bonus/gift equivalent of giving a weekly rounds of applause for healthcare workers instead of funding during a pandemic.
A patronizingly low amount of cash that would only really work on a single 10 year old (and in today's economy that's a maybe) rather than a room full of adults, but... Still actually cash.
I was expecting a "5 dollars, to split among yourselves..."
@@Sablus I assumed all of these, including the singular banana, was meant to be split amongst all the nurses at the hospital!
$5 because the amount of work you do is worth paying for
My friend (a teacher) to me (an RN): 'Rule of thumb: If they have to have a week to appreciate you, you probably aren't getting paid enough.'
I worked in customer service and I feel this. The company spent all kinds of money on stupid "gifts" that either got thrown in a drawer or the garbage by the end of the week. One year we got a banner on a stand for each of our desks with the company logo. I would have rather them take that money and give it to us or just buy us some pens with it.
@@agailparsonsin case you forgot where you worked?
Not to be unkind, but how easily you can refill a position usually influences salary too. Nurses are highly skilled, which gets them paid more than fast food. However there's always more nurses graduating, or coming back to work after a sabbatical (like my mom did after staying at home with us for 10-15 years). Nurses are rad, I'm just being pragmatic. I have been in admin asst roles for over half my life, so I can appreciate feeling overworked and undervalued (not as much as nurses objectively are, however).
@@sitcomchristian6886 The many unfilled nursing positions at the hospitals and clinics would disagree.
Lol, just appreciate me a little more every day and give a reasonable wage and working conditions and we can call it even.
There's $5, but it's to be split amongst ALL the nurses in the facility
And there are too many nurses to divide the $5 among so we all end up owing them
oooh.
_now_ it makes sense
So did the banana.
😂😂😂😂😂
@@struckbyturtle3054
Say it isn't so! Money? What's that? If only balloons were dollar bills...
"An umbrella. Because we're with you, rain or shine" - actual gimmick at the hospital I currently work for.
At least that's something actually usable but still pitiful.
Comical since they'd fire a nurse if the CEO said it made sense
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@@stevenmckelvey4210 Or cents.
Sounds like an ad for an insurance company 😂
They would never give a nurse five dollars. This isn’t satire!!
True story, we got a gift card for Tim Hortons (CAnada), with $2 in it. U cant make this up.
It's $5 for the *entire* nursing staff to split however they deem appropriate.
@@Indrajith4evr how is that even possible?
its possible, instead of free caf coffee, here is a gift card for $2 at Timmies :face palm:
We got a 5$ chikfila card that was only valid at one particular chikfila nowhere near us
I like to think that the backwards text in the powerpoint is actually how it looks.
They really should let Jonathan organize the appreciation week gifts.
He's busy helping Ortho learn to use AI more stealthily.
@@Joy21090Jonathan is never too busy. Administration just doesn't care. 😒
Oh, he is. Administration just won't know about it. Secretly, there will be a raving party in the basement, and each nurse will have one of their days off actually protected and not be called in for staff shortage.
Think of all the work Jonathan would have to do to organise that though
Spot on! As the dinosaur in this group Nurses Week used to be a actual week of activities, fancy lunch, raffles and various gifts. It's down to something ridiculous with the name of the facility/agency emblazoned on it. Happy Nurses 5 minute celebration! Now get back to work!
Truth!
And if you accept the “gift,” taxes on the value will be deducted from your paycheck.
On behalf of my late mother who was a R.N. for almost 50 years. Finally a Doc who gets the crap nurses have to put up with!🎉
AMEN. Happy Nurse's Week, to my mom and my sister in Heaven. Love you guys!!!💞💖
Most Doctors are fully aware and not happy with it. Doctors are just as much a cog in the machine as nurses and don't have much say in anything pertaining to their pay, treatment, or bonuses. This comes back to hospitals that are managed by CEOs who report to insurance companies.
@@yoursavior748 word
Doctors don't run the nursing department.
Talk to the administration.
I'm 100% convinced he went into this with no script and no plan. Between each take, he grabs the first item he sees and uses it as a prop.
How art reflects reality! The administration gave zero thought for their nurses, and the good doctor gave no thought to the gifts.
It is all the more delightful for this.
The plan was to have no plan
Way better than carrot top ever did
We got socks with the hospital logo on the bottom so patients can know who we represent when we jump feet first off the bed tower.
Do we work at the same hospital? lmao
You got socks because “the hospital couldn’t run without them”
We got socks, too! They actually look pretty cool.
The first "half" in half-and-half is because the hospital wouldn't be half as good without them, but the second "half" in half-and-half is because the nurses are paid half what they deserve.
PREACH!!!! 🙌
Yes!!
When I was nursing I felt the pay was good enough, it’s just they needed twice as many people to do the job they wanted us to do The way they wanted it done.
Isn't the pay of nurses pretty good in the USA ?
Heared they get about 80k ?
@@blablup1214 not at all hospitals and not in all states.
I have been a nurse for 30 years. I have gotten things this weak before for Nurses Week. A plastic holder for bandaids. A bag with a granola bar, a baseball cap, dollar store ear buds. A cheap umbrella. This year I did appreciate it when the chaplains came around and did a blessing of our hands. Luckily most nurses are not motivated by the thanks because otherwise there would be no nurses. Blessings to all my fellow nurses. ❤
You got a BAG for your granola bar!? Luxury!
The blessing of the hands sounds really beautiful, tbh. I'm glad you all are there for us, thank you!
@@sitcomchristian6886 Maybe next year they'll bless their aching feet!
Not a nurse but in dental field. My boss bought everyone weather stations. They were cheap, cheap plastic. We all returned them. They were seven dollars. I’m not ungrateful however it would have been better to give no gift at all than that cheap crap. A new coworker kept looking at everyone else at the luncheon. She thought it was a prank. I should have warned her not to expect anything.
A blessing is the most worthless lol 😂 at least the umbrella ☔ stops the rain.
It is said when giving gifts its always the thought that counts...After 47 years in Nursing this video is the best Nurses Week gift I ever received. Thank you for the thoughtful gift of humor.
What thought?
It's teacher appreciate week. The student council gave us wafer bars and granola bars because "as teachers you set the bar high." No, this is not a joke. I kinda think the underpaid and overworked always seem to wind up as having appreciate weeks.
Tbf I do not think the student council can afford to give you anything other than a pun. Seeing as how, you know, it's run by students.
Exactly. That's what Labor Day has become. And many who labor don't even get that day off. I think we need to do a general strike for Labor Day week.
@@galamander_1327 I completely forgot Labor Day exists. Do nurses and teachers feel the same way about their appreciation day/weeks?
@@someyoungchild Right? Most people hear Labor Day and don't think "labor". Or they think labor means blue collar jobs. It's for everyone who must work at all in order to survive. It's for anyone who can't live off their capital investments or enormous fortune. It's about the right to a liveable wage and safe working conditions.
Almost as bad as the year hospitals were handing out literal rocks because "Nurses Rock".
I thought the wrinkle release spray was for the wrinkles on our scrubs that we wear for 14 hours straight
im new to my work, but at the hospital I was recently hired at, the administration actually talked to the nurses prior and asked them what they, as a collective, would like for nurse's week. the administration seems to already be on good terms with the nurses and has been for a while cause they talked and actually convinced the administration to try to get some equipment to ease the strains of care, including a 'hercules' bed system, to at least try it out and see how well it worked.
So far I think it's been working great, i'm new to the hospital environment, but as a male CNA im used to more physically demanding tasks, and having something like that? Even if it's not being used on my patients, im not being asked to help with patients who it's being used on. The other techs are more upbeat than workers I've had in the past, the nurses aren't as against helping out with raising the patient up in bed, and don't need help when doing so, and overall the environment is a bit better. Heard we're getting like 5 more soon.
EDIT: Also... "Toilet paper... cause oh god... im in a heaping pile of shit, aren't I?"
This is so accurate it hurts. My mum has been a nurse for over 40 years, and the 'gifts' have never, ever improved.
That's because all of the money went to administration bonuses nothing left for staff.
They sure don't. I just donated 3 coffee mugs to Salvation Army. Not sure just how many nurses week presents I've donated to SA over the past 32 years.
Not like any profession need or deserves gifts for doing there job anyway.
As a former cancer patient I owe my emotional and physical recovery mostly to my nurses and nurse practioners. I am incredibly thankful to them!
❤❤❤❤
Nurses make the world go 'round!
We got a Florance Nightingale impersonator to go from unit to unit and shake our hand... and a list of businesses where we can get a 20% discount... I would much rather have that $5!
Florence Nightingale would turn in her grave...
Stop. A Florence Nightingale impersonator?!? Omg
Barf.
That's seriously insane
Not gonna lie, I did like the little trinkets I got for Nurses’ week. They had a day for a cookout or catered lunch, free of charge, with music & raffles, Along with a small gift. Those were usually coffee cups with the hospital logo on them and something else. One year was a power bank; another year was a big old picnic blanket. Or coupons for the cafeteria so we could get either a bigger discount or free meal. Way back then, I worked for a hospital that actually appreciated their nurses so the atmosphere was better, the workload was easier, and we actually felt supported. That changed when it was sold to corporation. I worked at another hospital corporation & hated it. Worst experience ever. Everything they did, that they made the nurses put up with, was to make sure the hospital got paid by Medicare or other insurance companies, and made them money. They didn’t care how fast their nurse turnover was or how overloaded their staff was. Healthcare should not be run by a capitalist corporation. I have never believe that more strongly that I do now.
As an RN I'd rather just not have a "nurse week" I went to school to learn a trade to pay my bills. I don't buy into this nonsense and everybody is just annoyed. This video is spot on though.
Same
Love this response. You still should be appreciated.
Yes, you’re annoyed! It worked
I think if you want to get nurses something they'll really appreciate, hire more of them so one nurse won't have to do the work of three or four! 😢
YES!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, but that costs *money* and they don't wanna do that, so they'll shell out thousands of dollars on shitty gifts instead of bonuses because...that for some reason makes more sense in their minds. I hate people so much lol
At the site I worked at as a phlebotomist, we got backpacks and a water bottle. I'm talking a well made backpack too. That shit was like easily $80-100 per person for the entire fucking state. We all collectively told them "hey, we'd prefer this as money, not as a gift," and they awkwardly stood there with these forced smiles and ignored that comment as hard as possible.
I like to say, if it ain't a lift team and a dedicated break relief nurse, I don't want it. (My state has safe staffing ratios, so that's not on the list)
It costs way more to hire one person for a wage they'll actually take the job at for an extended period of time (and benefits) than it does to spend $5 on an item for each nurse in the hospital once a year. I have literally seen multiple corporate hospitals penny-pinched into bankruptcy because large corporations benefit more from doing that than using them as normal businesses.
My favorite was when they gave us pens with blue ink. This was back in the days of paper charting, when all charting had to be done in BLACK INK😅
I did my part as a patient in the hospital for two and a half weeks I tried to tell the nurse everything I wanted in one interaction and didn’t try to get out of bed on my own I also tried to wait to ask if possible until they had to come in there because I worked in healthcare for 14 years
Haha!! Thanks
Bless you!
If I'm your nurse, please still call me! It's okay! I know it's easy to brush off how you feel and your own needs because you remember every patient who has "had it worse".... it's not a healthy mentality. I did that to myself without realizing it and ended up needing 4 surgeries in a year!
Lame gifts representing empty sentiments must be universal; May 8-12 is also teacher appreciation week '23 (coincidence? I think not!) and we've gotten some doozys...a pack of cards because we're always on top of our game (yo this ain't a casino, cards aren't gonna pay our bills!), pens because we're the "write" stuff, totes because we've got this in the bag...y'all how about the raises, increased PTO and staff/curriculum support we've been asking for all year?? 🙄
Unless Jimothy hand makes the pizza, I don’t wanna hear it.
Can't tell if he's panicked from the frowns or if it's admitting that their personnel deserves to go to the bathroom
Former employer (not medical) had a year of record-breaking profits. In December, they placed a single small bowl of individual, flavored non-dairy coffee creamer cups along with a note about how much the company appreciated the employees' contribution to the company's success. There was also a note in larger font advising people to take only 1 coffee creamer per person per day.
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Just retired after 35 years of dedication to the profession and parts of me really miss it (like the part that went back inside a restaurant after I saw this lovely teenager with her broken foot in her splint and she had it resting on the floor. I knew it was a recent injury by the way she walked into the place and I was right. Her mom thanked me for giving her the same advice she’d had already but didn’t seem to remember - like my helping her elevate her foot on a chair, etc etc etc), yet sadly the other parts of me won’t - the never getting a lunch break during a 12 hour shift, the shoving down whatever food or drink you could while charting on your “clients” also know as patients, the rare bathroom breaks you could take because the workload was so insane - and people could potentially die if you did, the rare times you actually had enough staff and when you did, management looked at sending people home because “we can’t be over staffed”, the recent knowledge that you might die because of going to work (yup that was working on a COVID floor at the height of the epidemic when they hadn’t invented the vaccine) or worrying you might kill a family member. Yes I know I saved 1000’s of lives over 35 years and I made a personal difference to many people yet I always forgot that “you’re replaceable” and that despite giving whenever your employer needed help, if you ever did - well, find a different job. I can only hope all the people I mentored in nursing are still doing well and are able to continue and hopefully pass on what I did for them. Because someday I know a nurse will stand over me when I can’t speak for myself and I hope he or she loves their job like I did.
Tonight I spent two hours making 4 dozen peanut butter rice krispie treats to take with me to the infusion room tomorrow. It's nowhere close to what the nurses deserve, but hopefully it makes them feel loved. Infusion nurses are the best 💙
You think this is bad... you should see the "gifts" we get as nursing assistants 🙄😭.... my nicest gift was a tumbler. But then my nurse manager told me I had to buy the plastic lid in the gift shop for $2.00 😂😂😂
What the....??
Friendly reminder that the Mayo Clinic is currently threatening the MN government over a law that would improve nurse:pt ratios and make care safer with better conditions for staff in the state
This isn't relevant to my area but can you clarify who is pushing for the law that would improve nurse:pt ratios and who is resisting it?
@@Cjorss I'm not in the area either, so I'm not familiar with the nuances beyond what's in the national news. You'd be better off reading that.
My guess would be that the Mayo clinic is the one that does not want to improve nurse to patient ratio.That would be more costly for them.The Minnesota government, however, would be in favor of that because their state residents would be better taken care of. The Mayo clinic would not want to spend more money than necessary.
@Anne Bruecks Yeah, it looks like that's right. It was just so far from my preconceived notions of the Mayo Clinic that I wasn't sure if the grammar was wrong or I was.
Back in the day we got $10 in hospital coupons to use at the cafeteria or the gift shop. My husband called them "food stamps".
its so much cheaper to spend about 1000 bucks for a whole hospital's worth of RNs than it is to give them raises. It is also cheaper to just pay your workers what they are worth so you dont have to spend over 1000 per WEEK PER travel RN for months at a time because so many of your own staff quit.
Haha he forgot to mention that gifts only apply to day shift. NOCs nurse here, have never once received anything from a hospital except the sad leftover bananas that day shift left behind.
The best/worst I've ever seen was a basket of rocks that the nurses are supposed to paint and gift each other, because... nurses... rock.
At least you got the banana because you are so appealing.
@@Joy21090 😂 Yea and you are 'appealing' it yourself! 😢
Thank you Doc❤nobody understands that we literally love our patients back to life and we get resilience coffee once in a while. Covid was hard on us, so many people are gone. People are still dying from it. Just not filling up all units anymore. Thank You to the entire nurse support staff as a RN/BSN for 22 years. I’ve had some amazing experiences. Happy Nurses Week ❤
Every administrator should watch this and have to write 1000 words on why it’s funny and why they should be sad.
Nurse homies, we APPs see you! I’m in your corner and I couldn’t do my job without you. None of us could. I’m sorry this is so funny because it’s so damn true. Thanks for sharing your pizza while we all cry together. I’ll give you my tiny flashlight for night shift! Y’all are incredible.
I got a calendar and a pack of gum from my supervisor team this year for nurses week 🎉 I’m a school nurse and Wednesday was school nurse day and nobody at my school cared or remembered because this week was also teacher appreciation week. You know what they got? They brought in a massage therapist to do chair massages for everyone. They got bouquets of flowers, breakfast and lunch served every day. Tomorrow is the last day, so we’ll see what amazing things Friday brings that I can leach off of and pretend are meant for me.
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I feel you, one nurse to another
I am sorry. I didn't even know that there is School Nurse Day. Happy belated School Nurse Day. You and your kind are absolutely critical to the functioning of a school. Thank you on behalf of all educators everywhere.
I'm so sorry! I loved my school nurse, and my son used to go there to get a few minutes of reprieve and care from a stressful day!! You are awesome and appreciated 🎉
Poor form on them; I'm so sorry!
I’m baffled they didn’t include you in the activities, it would have been easy! It’s criminal nurse appreciation and teacher appreciation are the same week!
I recently spent a week in hospital (pericarditis) and introduced a lot of the nursing staff and cardiac staff to your channel. I find you funny (and correct) as a layman, I would think they would be laughing themselves into a coma during their break (if they ever get those).
Dr G. You are amazing ! Nothing in this industry gets past you. ❤
At our hospital, our nurses received an exclusive, all-day discount at the hospital's gift shop.
I wish I was kidding.
Wtf?! They know nurses can’t just leave the unit and go shopping!
This was the best gift I received this nurses week
Thank you 😂🎉😂🎉😂🎉😊
My nurses got a tiny bag with a card talking about how important and appreciated they are and a little star fish pendant that you can probably put on a necklace or something? Oh. And the PRESENCE of a food truck that they have to pay for themselves.
The starfish charm is depressing. It's usually used as a metaphor for work that seems insignificant or endless. Not a good metaphor for motivating Nurses, I would think.
@Esther Paris yeah super weird. The week isn't over so I'm hoping they got something nice at the last second. Will find out tomorrow!
Ouch! How true is this sketch? lol! I worked at a specialty office affiliated with a moderately sized county hospital. They renamed Nurses' Week into Healthcare Week and sent a little basket of Tootsie Rolls to our office. I don't recall the little comment that accompanied the Tootsie Rolls. None of us expected to get a pat on the back, but we weren't exactly thrilled with the (probably old) Tootsie Rolls.
The gradual progression of him reading the room 😂😂😂
You "shoe-dnt" have to put up with this. 😂
Last year, from administration, we got a pack of 12 mug rootbeers, cups, and ice cream from nutrition. Then, we were asked to make our own root beer floats.
Staffing was worse next month
I must have lucked out, either I'm easy to please or our gifts are rad. We usually get stuff like hiking backpacks, stadium seat cushion things, a trunk organizer (that has been the most useful thing of my life 😆), super nice water bottles, roller backpack that's a cooler too, etc.
We'll see what next week brings!
As a retired Registered Nurse, I can attest that the content of this video is accurate 👩⚕️.
This is a FUNTASTIC 😊 😉 video! Every working nurse needs a Jonathan ❤️.
We got ice cream! I guess it's better than nothing. Happy nurses week! And thanks, Dr. Glouc❤
We got pizza. And it wasn’t even good pizza.
Very funny and true, I am never understanding why hospital administrations do so much metaphor gimmicks, when they’re looking to present gifts to nursing staff
My husband got a Mason jar with one packet of lemonade mix and a little card that says, "when nursing gives you lemons, you make lemonade."
This is the one video I was hoping to see comments along the lines of "haha good joke!" and not "yep, seen all of these and more". I'm so sorry you all go through this, you all deserve better :(
I would like to see all the different nurses' reactions (we've met Surgical nurse, charge, OR, premies)
I got socks, a light, a pen, and a letter thanking me for my years of service (I only started 6 months ago).
My hospital thanked us with Free Breakfast* in the cafeteria
*up to $5 in value
Thats what a small black coffee these days?
As a nurse, very accurate.
I love how he creates an audience simply through his reactions
The funniest part about this is that most hospital admin ACTUALLY BELIEVE NURSES WANT THIS.
We are literally getting a walking tour of a Publix grocery store…
OK that one boggles my mind. What is the thinking process behind that? What’s next, a tour of the DMV or the post office?
I'm a nurse and I can testify this is 100% accurate, or at least 100% how we feel!😂 It's nurses week and didn't even realize it because nothing's changed. Lol. This was awesome!
As the daughter of a retired nurse this is 10000% accurate
I do not have words for how much I love this.
He’s so smart!! He understands completely how nurses are treated and how they feel!!
We got snacks, a pizza party, and a low census. 7/10, not too bad this year lol
And they are cheaper then actual pizza 🍕
meanwhile, the admin is stuffing their pockets with hundreds of thousands of dollars, at a minimum
I'm convinced they stuff their pillows and mattresses, so that they can sleep at night.
If this didn’t hit so close to the truth it might be funny. A huge Thank You to all of the nurses I have worked alongside for almost 40 years in hospital healthcare!
The envelope is the most thoughtful gift
He didn’t say he would read them. Just that they could send them.
I hope that envelope already has a stamp on it
Interoffice mail. No stamp. But let's hope it's pre-addressed.
A right shoe... “because you are right, you SHOEdn’t have to work under these conditions” loved the pun.
I got nothing. Nada. Zip. ZERO. Not even the power point slide...
One year, we received black pens. Nothing, after that, because we weren't appreciative enough.
Man this is too real. My manager got us a hospital provided reusable grocery bag and a bag of Walmart brand popcorn this year. The theme was "Superstars". Oh, can't forget the cold Lil Ceasars pizza left over from dayshift 🙄
Dr G , I love you with all of dessicated , broken. Nurse heart. Being heard ,truly heard is huge
Took 1:12 to summarize the last 13 years of "nurses week"
My last nurses' week gift before I retired was a roll of lifesavers candy. And it did influence my decision to retire when I did.
As a retired Nurse, I still drink cold coffee, out of habit.
And I still woof down any food in front of me. Really pisses me off that I can't savor a delicious meal because I reflexively eat like a shop vac.
Wow! The script on this one probably took some time! Loved it! 😆
And it was in that moment he realized he should've opted for the trusty pizza party.
too real, what started out as comedy quickly became tragedy
As always, you nailed this one!!! ☺️♥️
My last job offered us a “bonus” that must have been come up with by some weird algorithm. They said it was based on seniority but RNs who had been there for decades got less than RNs who were new grads and had been there for less than a year. BUT WAIT!! It gets better!! We were supposed to get half the bonus at the new year and the other half midway through the year BUT if we quit before the end of the year we had to pay back half of what we got. Mine was $500 but I ended up getting $250 since I had literally just put in my 2 weeks. I still get the occasional letter telling me I owe $120 or whatever.
Give us a Jonathan for our flowsheets & code narrations for Nurses Week! Please, just one day! Or even just a nod!
Oh I love this game! Is this the one where we shout "BINGO" when we match 5 on our game board? ;-)
Jeez that MacBook Pro one was brutal
So accurate 😢sad but funny😂
Last year the nurses in Finland held protests for better pay and working conditions, and a common meme/mascot for the protests was a banana, because a story went viral of an employer who gave one single banana to a nurse to show their appreciation for how much nurses put in effort during the start of the pandemic.
100% more generous than most of the nurse's week gifts I have ever received over my 30 years as an RN!!!
I'm forwarding this to all my nurse friends!
I used to take patients to a hospital that gave their RNs rocks in a bag for nurses week one year. They were supposed to paint them with happy sayings and pretty colors. THEY GAVE THEM ROCKS!! Needless to say a lot of the rocks weren't painted with happy things on them.
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Thank you for recognizing the crap we put up with, Dr Glaucomflecken! ❤
Sometimes with Nurses Week gifts, I'm like...can we just get a giant tray of coffee & chocolates/cookies? I don't need more trinkets! I NEED COFFEE!!!
😢 So sad for you, dear sister nurses! I know you deserve so much more, and so do the admins! Never mind, we get the appreciation from those who count most - our patients. Keep your chins up! You have everything to be proud of!
These are always spot on and pure gold!
Oh man, this hits far too close to home. In my hospital, we got a small bag with an envelope containing an employee handbook as our thank you gift. It was a nice bag though. 😂
All of those gifts are entirely accurate, in both whay they represent and also that that is exactly what they get given 😂
My jobs have usually given out good gifts, but this is hilarious!