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Blog spotlight: Informal reward ideas!

Nurse Leader Weekly, July 14, 2008

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This week, our retention specialist, Bonnie Clair, BSN, RN, shares some creative ways to reward staff:

Establish an informal reward that can be passed along. For example, in my department we have a "Sticking Your Neck Out" award. Every other month or so, someone is given a toy giraffe for going beyond their usual job duties.You can implement this and give a new giraffe each time, or have the recipient choose their successor and pass it along.

To avoid becoming a popularity contest, set some ground rules. For example, no one can win more than twice a year.

Be creative with this: A model brain could represent a "Quick Thinking" award, a pouch of toy gold coins can indicate "You're such a treasure," and play money could represent "Your actions are worth a million," or even be used to indicate meeting departmental budget goals.

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