The gown card reads “Sour grapes, trashing nominations because they can.”

I have no idea if this is an actual thing.

However, I have my suspicions.

The nominations for the nursing awards that I am in charge of are down.

Like, a lot.

So much so that I made an announcement at the end of the last awards ceremony that we did in August that the nominations were down and please encourage people to nominate the hospital staff. If there is a position, we probably have an award for it.

The answer is to take the nominations online.

Sounds simple.

It is anything but.

Where would the nominations be housed? Is this mythical place easily accessible? And is it not able to be hacked?

These are the questions we as a council are reckoning with.

Also, where would someone access the nominations to nominate people?

Because not everyone is tech-savvy.

The corporate-level shared governance tried to do this a few years ago. The same problems came up then, too. Not everyone has access to the computer app. Not everyone has access to the nominations to collect them and collate them for consideration.

I am waiting for pushback about the cursive nominations. Because we have those too.

I’ll just keep collecting nominations, collating them with the massive assistance from the administrative assistant attached to the group, and tallying up the votes.

The only way out is through. This is why I am still in charge of this council because no one has stepped forward to take my place. And after shepherding it through the covid pandemic and keeping it alive with two other nurses, I will not let it die. It is too important to celebrate hospital staff.

And, frankly, we need all the wins we can take.