Nurses are caring, compassionate and have nerves of steel, able to withstand the kind of pressure that comes from working in the fast-paced, high-stakes healthcare world.
To celebrate the differences made by nurses across the country, the American Nurses Association sets aside a week each year, known as National Nurses Week, to honor its members.
This year, National Nurses Week is from May 6-12, just over a month away.
While no small item could ever truly thank nurses for the impact they make on a daily basis, it’s become common for organizations to give their nurses little gifts or giveaway items during National Nurses Week.
Learn more about National Nurses Week.
These items are meant to show appreciation for the nurses, and to show them that all their hard work doesn’t go unrecognized.
One way to show your nurses that you appreciate them, both during National Nurses Week and on a daily basis, is by offering custom nurse-themed ID card accessories.
Your nurses don’t need another mouse pad
We know what you might be thinking: ID accessories aren’t exactly a thrilling thing to give to your nurses.
However, an ID accessory, also known as an attachment, is one of the few things you can give your nurses that they’ll actually be able to use on a daily basis.
Most healthcare facilities require their employees to wear an ID badge at all times, making an accessory, like a lanyard, strap clip or badge reel, to display the badge a necessity.
If they have to wear them anyways, why not make them fun?
1. Custom lanyards for nurses
Lanyards are a popular way to carry and display an ID badge. They’re available in a variety of different styles and have plenty of opportunity for branding and fun designs, if you choose custom lanyards.
While lanyards aren’t always practical for nurses due to the fact that they may inconvenience patients by dangling over them while receiving care, there are cases where we’ve found lanyards for nurses to be pretty useful.
Creating custom lanyards for Nurses Week is easy. You can email us to upload artwork, choose your text color and more.
Create a unique”I ♥ Nurses” design, or pick a fun saying about nursing to show your appreciation for your staff.
2. Custom retractable badge reels for nurses
Like lanyards, retractable badge reels offer plenty of opportunity for custom branding.
Badge reels are popular in healthcare because they tend to do a little less dangling than lanyards. The retractable cord in the reels is also convenient, as it allows staff to pull their badges away from their bodies to scan them at doors or cafeterias.
Badge reels for nurses present a number of different design opportunities:
- Put a custom graphic for your nurses on a twist-free B-Reel™, our most popular reel among healthcare customers
- Add a graphic that shows love for your nurses to our custom heart-shaped badge reels
- Create unique badge reels for each of your nurses by adding their names to custom badge reels featuring variable text printing
3. Custom LogoClips™
LogoClips are a unique card-carrying accessory: they offer the custom-branding capabilities of a badge reel with the ease of use of a strap clip.
LogoClips are popular in healthcare settings because they don’t lead to an ID badge dangling over a patient receiving care. If your facility requires staff to wear ID badges at all times but doesn’t issue cards used for scanning or swiping, LogoClips are a great option.
With plenty of room for adding a custom logo or other graphic, LogoClips are a great custom card accessory for nurses.
