Healthcare Provider Recognition Activities
Below are some creative initiatives to consider that will celebrate your rural healthcare providers!
Has your community engaged in appreciation activities for healthcare providers in your community? We want to hear about it! Tag @AlbertaRhPAP on social media and use #RuralHealthMatters or e-mail photos and a description to info@rhpap.ca
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- Profile your health provider(s) in the newspaper
- Write a thank-you card
- Recognize the important days (birthdays, work anniversaries, etc.).
- Mention their accomplishments at community events
- Host a BBQ
- In coordination with local elementary or high schools, build opportunities where students’ work can be shared with or presented to your health provider
- Gift an appreciation basket
- Consider doing something to celebrate the health providers during their professional recognition day/week (For example: Nursing Week in May; Paramedics Week and Licensed Practical Nurses Week in June; Medical Radiation Technologist (MRT) Week in November.)
Here are some examples of what communities across Alberta are doing:
Have your own appreciation photos?
Share the love! E-mail them to info@rhpap.ca!
- Place a heart in a window
- Put up a drawing or messages of thanks in a window
- Put a drawing or message of thanks on a fence (laminate)
- Put a thank you sign up at the hospital entrance
- Create thank you posts for your website and social media
- Create a thank you video
- Coordinate clapping or other synchronized activities to show appreciation for healthcare providers
- Post messages of support to websites/social media
- Create a funny appreciation video (e.g. JibJab, etc) for healthcare providers
- Tag social media posts with #ruralhealthmatters
- Give a “shout-out” on the community’s digital board or screens in the health facility
- Acknowledge healthcare professionals at Village / Town/ County council meetings