09/15/2026

How Others Are Recognizing Their Teams during NDTRW

💙 Recognize Your Team

• Write personalized thank-you notes.
• Create fun technician superlatives.
• Start a staff appreciation board.
• Highlight a different technician each day.
• Ask leadership to share a specific example of how technicians make a difference.

💙 Get Patients Involved

• Create a patient “Thank a Tech” station.
• Provide NANT appreciation certificates for patients to complete.
• Invite patients to write encouraging messages.
• Display patient thank-you notes in a designated area of the unit.

NANT has specifically heard from units that have used patient appreciation stations and certificates as an inexpensive way to involve patients in NDTRW.

💙 Build Team Spirit

• Have a themed dress-up day.
• Bring-your-own breakfast or snack day.
• Take a team photo.
• Create a “Why I'm Proud to Be a Dialysis Technician” board.
• Hold a five-minute team trivia game.
• Have each person share one thing they appreciate about a coworker.

💙 Celebrate Professionalism

Recognition doesn't always have to mean food or gifts. Use NDTRW as an opportunity to celebrate what technicians know and do.

Try a quick safety challenge, skills refresher, peer-to-peer teaching moment, or team discussion about how technicians contribute to patient safety and quality.