Mom is in an ALF. I want to do something for her caregivers. I've been told bring them lunch or something like that. I'm guessing they get lots of that. I want something more personal, but don't know what. Facility rule is no tipping. Any suggestions? I hope I get notified if I get responses because on the past I posted a question and then could never find it again.
Beth
However, if there is a lot of employees than your best bet would be to go with one of those great ideas that have been suggested.
Ask the Director of Nursing or the Social Service Director what type of items the staff can receive. I have worked in long term care/nursing homes and we rarely received "lunch" from family members as a "Thank You". We did receive "Lunch" from the Administration to celebrate "Nurses' Week" or "Nursing Home Week" in May. We usually received boxes of candy from the families at Christmas time; and often the candy was brought in the daytime so there was very little candy left over for the evening and night shift staff members.
When I worked in a 45+ bed facility, to celebrate "Nursing Home Week", I have brought meat platters from Subway or another deli for EACH SHIFT and placed them in the STAFF LOUNGE refrigerator for EVERYONE to enjoy. Each platter was labeled as to which shift it was for. I took the meat platters for the Evening shift and Night shift to the nursing home at 8 PM so that the food was fresh and the 3-11 staff could enjoy the food after the residents had been put to bed that evening.
A couple of families sent crates of oranges and apples from Florida or California and these were put in the Staff Lounge and a sign was put up informing the facility staff to take just 1 or 2 oranges or apples so that everyone got some fruit. You could give a fruit basket to the nursing staff. Make up your own fruit basket as the store-bought baskets are all stuffing and very little fruit.
I love Ahmjoy's idea of giving homemade salsa and chips to the staff. It is a great grab-&-go snack that the staff can eat quickly between caring for the residents.
Another idea is bags of "Puppy Chow" or "Muddy Buddy" or regular Chex Mix snacks (or chocolate-dipped pretzels). [Make some of the snack without peanuts in case someone is allergic to peanuts.] People LOVE this stuff. Use zip-lock bags and decorate the bags with Christmas stickers. Make enough bags so that the nursing staff on each shift get one.
Use your imagination, and have fun making snack bags for the facility staff.
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