Fun Ways to Celebrate Respiratory Care Week
With only three weeks left before Respiratory Care Week, perhaps you are as busy as my team is preparing for this annual event.
Each year, we form a Respiratory Care Week Committee to take charge of this celebration. This year, the committee decided to do a couple activities that I thought might interest others.
First, we purchased scrub tops for everyone. The committee found a picture of a rib cage with lungs and a heart and they are going to have that picture silk-screened on the back of the scrub tops. They will give the scrub tops to everyone in the department, including our administration and medical director.
They also decided to have two catered lunches for both the day shift people as well as the night shift instead of just one for each group.
For a finale, we have invited the entire hospital staff (including the medical staff) to participate in a Respiratory Care Week Chili Cook-Off by either entering their favorite chili recipe or just coming and enjoying a wonderful and delightful epicurean extravaganza of chili, cornbread, and sodas. An impartial unbiased panel of judges (respiratory care practitioners, of course) will award prizes for the best judged chili recipes.
Like us, you have probably also noticed that Halloween comes at the end of Respiratory Care Week this year. This awesome committee decided to end our week of celebration with everyone dressing up as a Dr. Seuss characters. I was selected to be the "Cat in the Hat" and a very talented lady is working very hard to make my costume for me. Of course, there will be more delicious food and the department will be decorated appropriately for the occasion - that part has already been completed.
What fun things are you doing to celebrate this auspicious occasion of Respiratory Care Week - 2009?