drinks at the nurses station

How about all the holiday snacks from the families and doctors as well as managerds. But yet we are not to eat or drink in the nursing station. Do they want to answer ur patients needs when u take ur 30 min break. I can bearly go pee without hearing my name called over the intercom.

I hear ya! Come to think of it, I haven't seen any holiday snacks or food here. For a top 100 hospital, its very cold. I am not very happy here, moved from Florida to NC 6 months ago. It seems to be more of a Power things with this no drinks at your work place. The call outs have been BIG here, since they put this no drinking rule.because I think, we are drinking out of each others cups. and maybe not knowing it and shareing our germs. I find myself more thirty and have less energy, and getting heartburn, because I drink too fast, did you read what one person wrote, comparing this to having a cigarettes. that this is more of a habit. I must be very addicted, because I have been doing this "not drinking" thing at the nurses station for about a month and a half now and still feel the same as I did from the begining Dehydrated!! Maybe I need to go to Rehab! Even some of the doctors have been saying Its very UNhealthy, for us to do this, as they sip on there drinks in front of us. and even stated more unhealthy for night workers. Which I am.

It is a Joint Comminssion ruling as to no food or drinks in patient area, that includes the nursing station. We can have bottled water and that is it.

Isn't water a drink? We can't even have that. So, you are saying the joint comminssion said it is okay to have water only at the nurses station? Don't get me wrong here. I understand and agree why we shouldn't eat or drink in patient areas. But what I don't agree with is the doctors,team leaders, manager and director drinking and sometimes eating [like walking around with a bag of chips] in patient's area. I have been in this field for 25 years, there is problems no matter where you go. But I have to tell you, this place takes the cake. So, for now. I'll hang in there, while looking elsewhere.

That is what we were told, we could have bottled water with its cap on, but nothing else. I think it had something to do with one our our nurses who protested due to some medication she was on she needed to have access to water. Anyway, I am content with bottled water, it is better than nothing.

I would be happy to have some water! You are lucky to have that.

I don't see a problem with bottle water with a cap on it at all!! That is my choice of drink for work, and for most. even the sport bottles are fine too! We barely have the time to go pee, now we barely have the time to drink! I don't believe this is more of a habit. I drink because I am thrity and I know from all the running around we do and how the temp,chances from hot to cold and back, you can dehydrate quickly. Its not that easy in the ER to just walk down to the med room and hang out and drink. I work in a big er, so when we can get into the med room to get a drink, we are met by other nurses trying to get there meds. Crazy!! it is. And then top it off with the manager coming in, laughing at us, because it crowded in the med room, but she is drinking her coffee in her office locate next to the nurses station and also walks around with it. Its a bit inhumane. I know the other places I have worked at are by far ,much better than this place. But like I said before, If staff has to do it, so should management and the doctors and anyone who works in the patient care areas.

In my unit, it's pretty relaxed. We are discouraged from eating at the nurses station (and yet sometimes it still happens.......we're busy you know!) but drinking has never been an issue. We do try to keep cups, etc with covers, though.

This probably comes under the heading of TMI, but I developed severe constipation, which has been an on going problem now for 7 years - all due to the fact that I was getting dehydrated at work. I rarely had the time to take a "break" and hydrate myself. So, I took to taking bottled water with me where ever I go. I keep a cap on it. It has solved the problem. I don't try to hide it, because if I did, I would forget to drink.

I defy anyone to tell me to put my drink away. I cannot tell you the agony that chronic constipation can cause, and I am not going to compromise my health, because the job I have will not give me adequate coverage so I can take recommended breaks.

Blessings

Sounds like the places I use to work at. Everyone was pretty laid back, I come here and OMG!! Never seen anything like this! I know its not this bad elsewhere.