Gifts for a Nurse

Nurses get gifted badge reels and coffee jokes. These are shirts about what the job actually is. "An Algorithm is not a Nurse." "Nurses are not Disposable." "Nobody Plans to Get Sick." "Save Our Rural Hospitals." "Your Software Did not Go to Nursing School." Written for the RN, the LPN, the NP, the CNA, the nursing student, and the charge nurse who has not sat down since seven.

Three threads run through this collection. Care as a right: Medicaid, insurance, the clinic that stays open. Staffing and respect: the strike, the lockout, the sick day that is not a perk. And the newest fight, the software an administrator thinks can triage. Nurses know better, and these shirts say so.

Every shirt is printed to order in the USA on a heavyweight garment-dyed tee, unisex with a relaxed cut, true to size, S to 4XL. Comfortable under a fleece on the drive in, fine on the floor for a nurses' week event, and a good gift for pinning, graduation, or the coworker who covered your shift.

Ordering for a unit or a graduating class? Group orders of existing designs go on one custom listing. Related: healthcare shirts, science shirts, gifts for a social worker, and gifts for a therapist.

Questions people ask

What is a good gift for a nursing graduation or pinning?
"Science Is Real" is the classic, "Public Health Over Corporate Wealth" is the one that gets stopped in the hallway, and "Your Software Did not Go to Nursing School" is the one for the new grad walking into a hospital that just bought a chatbot.

What is a good Nurses Week gift?
Nurses Week runs May 6 to 12, and the shirts that get gifted most that week are "Nurses are not Optional," "The Nurses are Right," and "Nobody Plans to Get Sick." For a whole unit, put everyone's design and size on one group order.

Can I get shirts for the whole unit?
Yes. Group orders of existing designs go on one custom listing so everyone's sizes and colors ship together; see group and bulk orders.