If you run a nursing home, one of your greatest resources is of course your human resources – the people that work with you. When it comes to motivating your staff members, one of the ways to achieve it is to celebrate them when the need arises.
Interestingly, there is an opportunity to celebrate your staff members if you own and operate a nursing home. The nursing home week is indeed an opportunity you must not fail to maximize if you are looking for a good opportunity to celebrate your staff member.
Nursing home week which is now known as National Skilled Nursing Care Week is a celebration that is designed to celebrate caregivers and other staff members that work in a nursing home or offer caregiver services. If you are looking to celebrate the 2023 nursing home week with your staff member, then you may want to consider the following ideas.
National Skilled Nursing Care Week Activities With Staff
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Organize a Dinner Party
One of the options you have when it comes to celebrating your staff members during the nursing home week for 2023 is to organize an in-house dinner party.
Since you are likely going to have about a dozen staff members working for you, then what you need to do to make the dinner party worth the celebration is to ask each staff member to invite their spouses and their kids. With that, you can rest assured that it is going to be an enjoyable and unforgettable dinner party.
But make sure the organizing committee of the event are people who know what it takes to organize parties that will make attendees want more.
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Organize a Beach Party
Another idea that is suitable when it comes to celebrating your staff members during the nursing home week for 2023 is to organize a beach party.
Trust me, for employees who are used to working indoors especially in a facility like a nursing home, taking them out to the beach to celebrate with them might just be what you need to make the nursing home week a memorable and unforgettable experience for them
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Organize a Park Party
If you have good parks in and around your city, then one of the options you have when it comes to celebrating your staff during the nursing home week is to take them to the park. Interestingly, there are several fun activities that you and your staff members can have in the park.
You can play games, run, dance, jump, and do all activities that can be done outdoors in the park. Remember that you can go to the park with your Bluetooth speaker. Just make sure you have good, danceable, and trendy music in your music collection if you truly want to have your staff members dance and enjoy themselves.
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Take Your Staff for Kayaking
If your nursing home is around a beach, lake, or river, then one of the options you have when it comes to celebrating your staff during the nursing home week is to take them out for a kayaking experience. Although this idea might not be suitable for all people, people who love kayaking or who are looking forward to kayaking will truly cherish this experience.
Please, before you adopt this idea, you should first ask your employees to be sure it is something they would want to be part of. Remember, the essence of celebrating nursing home week is for your staff and not for you hence their opinion matter in this regard.
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Take Your Staff on a Canopy Walk
Another option you have, if you are looking for an idea that is suitable for celebrating your staff members during the nursing home week, is to take your staff members on a canopy walk. Although this idea is suitable for nursing home that is located in and around cities where they have facilities for the canopy walk.
One good thing about canopy walks is that they will give your staff members the opportunity to experience nature. This is so because canopy walk is usually built in rainforests or man-made forests. If you have your nursing home in California, you may want to visit Redwood National and State Parks canopy park.
If you have your nursing home in Florida, you may want to Myakka River State Park. If you have your nursing home in Ohio, you may want to visit Hocking Hills State Park, or If you have your nursing home in Wisconsin, you may want to visit Legacy Grove Canopy Walk (Georgia, Northwoods Canopy Tour.
These states have some of the best and most breathtaking canopy walks and your staff members will definitely have a memorable and unforgettable experience.
In conclusion,
There you have it, some of the best ideas you can choose from when it comes to celebrating your staff members during the nursing home week. Please note that the ideas listed above can be worked upon to suit what you know will fit into what is considered fun activities for your employees.
Over and beyond, make sure there are a variety of foods, drinks, and music if indeed you want your staff members to have maximum fun.