With the holidays approaching, now is a great time to show your gratitude to those you appreciate all year long. However, giving your special nurses some love is a good idea any time of the year. Nursing is an exhausting job, and most nurses are passionate about what they do, giving their patients their all every day. If you’d like some ways to show the nurses in your life you appreciate them, read on for some fun ideas.
Set Up Meal Delivery
Who doesn’t want a break from cooking or packing lunch? Meal delivery can happen in a few different ways. Try these ideas:
- Get your nurse a meal kit subscription for a month so they can have fun trying new recipes and cooking nutritious food with ingredients delivered right to their door.
- Cater lunch to their office for the staff or just them.
- Send them a DoorDash delivery at home.
You can’t go wrong with meal delivery as a way of saying, “Thanks for all you do.”
Help Them Treat Themselves to Self-Care
We all need a little self-care now and then, and it’s essential in careers like nursing. Self-care gifts can be small and offer a relaxing aroma or an item that reminds someone to slow down and take a minute for themselves. Or these gifts can be large for an entire day of pampering. Let’s look at a few self-care gift ideas:
- Schedule an appointment for a day at the spa. Make sure the appointment doesn’t conflict with their work schedule.
- Give them a spa gift card.
- Give them an aroma therapy candle.
- Give them a variety of essential oils.
- Give them a towel warmer for the bathroom.
- Give them a luxurious bathrobe and slippers.
- Give them a temperature-controlled coffee mug.
Surprise Them With Sweet Treats
Who doesn’t love a sweet treat? The nurse in your life likely does, so show your appreciation with something yummy. You can order the sweet treats from a local confectionary, make them at home, or have them delivered. A delivered bouquet of cookies never hurt anyone.
Gift Them Fun Shirts
One of the best ways to show the nurses in your life you appreciate them is to give them a shirt that says it. Fun nurse shirts might read “nurse,” which will give total strangers a chance to thank them when they see the wearer out and about.
You can also create graphic tees with funny sayings about nursing so the nurse in your life can smile every time they put it on. You could even consider getting fun tees for the entire nursing staff where they work so everyone can look fabulous at the same time.
If you like the idea of a funny tee for your favorite nurse or nurses, Tees2urdoor has nurse graphic tees in an array of colors and sayings to make them smile. Please browse our online catalog or contact us with any questions or custom-tee needs.
Show How Well You Know Them With Gift Cards
Gift cards don’t tell someone you couldn’t think of anything else; actually, gift cards demonstrate how well you know a person and their buying habits. A prepaid card gives the nurse in your life an opportunity to spend money at a place they love or need to go whenever they want to—at no cost to them. Here are some great gift card ideas:
- Restaurants
- Gas stations
- Grocery stores
- Movie theaters
- Clothing stores
- Nursing uniform stores
Send Them Flowers
Flower gifts are classic and always stay in style since people will always appreciate the beauty of fresh flowers. Send some flowers to your nurse at work, or deliver them to their home. You can also sign up for a flower subscription, so they get fresh flower arrangements every month.
Prepare Themed Gift Baskets
Gift baskets are one of the best gifts for anyone at any time. You can fill a basket with just about anything at a variety of price points. First, choose a basket according to how many items you want to add. Then, consider the following gift basket ideas for the nurse in your life:
- Movie night: microwave popcorn, candy, and other snacks
- Hot cocoa extravaganza: cocoa packets, marshmallows, peppermint sticks, and, of course, a cute mug
- Pampering: face masks, body lotion, sleeping mask, back massager, Epsom salts, and bath oil
- Staying warm: scarf, hat, gloves, and a throw blanket
- Snack pack: a mix of salty and sweet treats, such as pretzels, gummy bears, chocolates, canned drinks, cookies, and nuts
- Cocktail kit: a bottle of bourbon, bitters, simple syrup, cherries—or a mix of any cocktail ingredients—and the recipe
- Coffee upgrade: fresh-ground coffee, a French press, and a cute mug
- Tea time: pretty tea cups and saucers, tea bags, shortbread cookies, teaspoons, and honey
- Pasta night: pasta, jarred sauce, breadsticks, wine, and an apron
Once your gift basket is full, use clear cellophane to wrap it and tie it with a ribbon.
Take Them Out To Eat
Has the nurse in your life been cooped up for too long? Then the perfect gift is some time away. Take them out to dinner, lunch, or happy hour. Sometimes, a little socializing is just what the doctor ordered.
Buy Them Wine
Sometimes, even people who love wine don’t want to spend the money on an extra special bottle. As a gift, give your nurse a lovely bottle of French or Italian wine in a gift bag with two wine glasses and a corkscrew. You could also add dried meats or cheeses to complement the vino.
Handwrite Them a Note
The art of the handwritten note is fading, but we shouldn’t let it. A simple message from you can mean the world to the nurse in your life. Tell them thanks for all they do. Tell them you see them—you know they are burning the candle at both ends. We all want to be seen, and nothing can say that like a sweet note from a loved one, friend, or co-worker. Use a blank card and surprise your nurse by placing it in one of these places:
- On their desk at work
- On their bathroom mirror
- In their car
- Through the mail
- In their lunch carrier
- In a bouquet of flowers
The nurse in your life will be truly thankful that you went out of your way to show your appreciation, no matter how big or small the gift is. It really is the thought that counts.
