http://travelnursingblogs.com/travel-nursing/nurses-week-3/ Tips for your travel nursing life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:19:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://travelnursingblogs.com/travel-nursing/nurses-week-3/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Angela Gutierrez Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:38:59 +0000 http://www.travelnursingblogs.com/?p=1202#comment-307 The gift we received last year was a wooden cutting board. What does that tell a hard working nurse? That wooden board never ended up in my kitchen. It appears our nation in all aspects are busier & busier and less humanistic with appreciation. This is humbling takedown of appreciation for the hard work nurses put in. Remember, we don't just "put in" extra hours of work- we are putting in extra hours of saving lives.. now what is that worth. We are not asking for the gifts such as cruise by any means, although after a long hard shift that would be nice. If you treat and respect your nurses with genuine apprecation they in return feel wanted, appreciated, empowered. Attitudes are contagious and given the type of appreciation nurses recieve can affect the moral of work ethic on the floors. The over and beyond that some nurses do will deminish as it has in the past 20 years which has gotten us in the shortage of hospital nurses we have today. This is a field of work is a calling. Nurses should be lifted and empowered to continue to work for what we were called to do; helping heal the sick. Knowing we make a difference is what counts. Knowng the money we make for hospitals is even a greater frustration to not receive a geniune appreciation gift. The gift we received last year was a wooden cutting board. What does that tell a hard working nurse? That wooden board never ended up in my kitchen. It appears our nation in all aspects are busier & busier and less humanistic with appreciation. This is humbling takedown of appreciation for the hard work nurses put in. Remember, we don’t just “put in” extra hours of work- we are putting in extra hours of saving lives.. now what is that worth. We are not asking for the gifts such as cruise by any means, although after a long hard shift that would be nice. If you treat and respect your nurses with genuine apprecation they in return feel wanted, appreciated, empowered. Attitudes are contagious and given the type of appreciation nurses recieve can affect the moral of work ethic on the floors. The over and beyond that some nurses do will deminish as it has in the past 20 years which has gotten us in the shortage of hospital nurses we have today. This is a field of work is a calling. Nurses should be lifted and empowered to continue to work for what we were called to do; helping heal the sick. Knowing we make a difference is what counts. Knowng the money we make for hospitals is even a greater frustration to not receive a geniune appreciation gift.

]]> http://travelnursingblogs.com/travel-nursing/nurses-week-3/comment-page-1/#comment-306 missbhavens Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:07:43 +0000 http://www.travelnursingblogs.com/?p=1202#comment-306 Oh, I could certainly do without yet another giant tin of tri-flavored popcorn. Oh, I could certainly do without yet another giant tin of tri-flavored popcorn.

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