Nurses Will Eat Anything

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Have you ever heard or said that to a family member?

whats the weirdest thing someone has brought for you or your staff to eat?

I think the sickest thing was a patient brought some balout, the duck eggs........Well its sick to me anyways.......

We had a patient overnight some white castle burgers one time.........

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

One of our doctors brought in soy nuts a couple of weeks ago........she's been trying to get us to eat healthier stuff, but these things went over like a lead balloon. :stone

We did, however, jump all over the crate of oranges one grateful patient's family brought us........YUM!!

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One of our doctors brought in soy nuts a couple of weeks ago........she's been trying to get us to eat healthier stuff, but these things went over like a lead balloon. :stone

We did, however, jump all over the crate of oranges one grateful patient's family brought us........YUM!!

I buy soy nuts at a health food store . . .I like them. :)

steph

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I tried a handful........definitely not my thing. :stone

I do love unsalted peanuts, macadamias, almonds, walnuts, and pecans.....in limited amounts, they're actually good for us. The trouble is NOT eating half a bagful at one sitting!! :chuckle

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What always amazes me is this - when day shift arrrives, we at times will find the leftovers of a night shift feast sitting out. When we first get there at 7am our noses are turned up - yuk we say. It isn't more than an hour or so later that I see folks nibbling on the stuff. Before too long the nibbling aspect is out the door and the junk is being shoved down out throat with abandon until every morsal is gone. Those that were slow always ask" where did _______go?" There is no limit where I work.

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Im getting hungry

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Specializes in Critical Care/ICU.

OMG. Tonite at work someone brought in a couple of those grocery store baked whole chickens among other stuff like salad, bread, etc. It was really nice of her to do!

She put everything out at around 10:30pm.

As I walked in and out of the break room throughout the night...the chickens where still there at 1 am, 3 am, 4am, and at 5:30am.

Every time I walked in, someone was picking at and still eating these chickens that have been sitting out for hours!

BLAHHHH!

I'm sorry, but that's nasty!!

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I buy soy nuts at a health food store . . .I like them. :)

steph

I like them too.

Nurses drink cold coffee and warm soda.

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They don't call them "sliders" for nothing!

I always affectionately referred to them as belly bombers. Now that's appropriate.

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Specializes in LTC, sub-acute, urology, gastro.

At my facility many of my co-workers are Jamaican & Haitian so it is not uncommon for us to be eating red snapper or even ox tail :uhoh21: at 7:30AM (don't knock the ox tail 'til you've tried it)!!!! Cold coffee, warm soda are my biggest staples throughout the day....

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Specializes in ER, PACU, OR.

It was shift change one day, and we went ion the break room. There was a basket with bread, flower, chips, pretzels, fruit and some other stuff in it. the basket was wrapped neatly in clear like celefane. The note said it was to "_________" RN for such good care. He has not come in yet. We decided to leave it out in the open for him to see. It was 3:10pm at that time. We went out and took report from 1st shift. 1st shift then went back to the break room to get ready to leave for the day.

I walked back to the break room/locker room at 3:25pm to get something oout of my locker. The basket was unwrapped, empty with nothing but open bags, and crumbes on the table. The entire first shift demolished the thing in less than 5 minutes flat!!!! The worst part of it was, the nurse it was meant for never even had a chance to see it!

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Isn't coffee supposed to be served cold? :lol2:

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I am afraid of anything home made....eek....We get dozens ond dozens of cookies at Christmas time.The last one I ate had a great long hair baked right in there...I don't touch that stuff now.....(not that we don't eat hair in this house-and pounds of it I'm sure-with 2 dogs and 4 cats running around-but it's OUR hair-you know?)

Yeah, when we were kids and would find a hair in the food my mom would say "Oh, look who got the prize..."

Hey, if it is baked or boiled, I figure all the germs are gone...or at least most of them. haha

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