You lot are lucky to have such perks. In hospital the perks are few and far between. Possibly a black biro once in a while, or if we're lucky an nice shiny highlighter for the handover sheets. Almost forgot, the "free" useless scissors, that would be lucky to cut a latex glove. Sometimes the senior sister or matron might relent and let us do some paid training/ refresher course (you'd be surprised how much training we have to keep up to date) Surprising that I can still remember how to ride a bicycle from the age of six, but just can't remember how to do heart compressions a year after doing the refresher course, or remember which button out of the only one to press on the external defibrillation machine. Hmmmmm And then there's the three yearly re-validation with the NMC so we can keep our NMC pin number. Yep you lot certainly are lucky.
To be fair though, the biggest "perk" of my job, is watching a patient leave the ward and going home, after being at death's door only weeks before.. (ooh and there's usually chocolates brought in by grateful family members, but only if you can get to them before the HCA's and cleaners)
