And What Did YOU eat today?

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OttawaRPN

451 Posts

Specializes in acute care med/surg, LTC, orthopedics.

Okay, now stop it... you all are making me hungry!

Specializes in Ortho, Neuro, Detox, Tele.

working night shift my meals are a bit different...

After I wake up and get my shower and get ready to go...I'll eat either a sandwich/or some PB and toast and some pretzels or something else on the side....Although, I have been known to eat a bag of popcorn on the way in.

At work: I MIGHT be able to drink something and eat a quick snack...some pretzels/chips/piece of cheese/etc before 11PM. If I'm really lucky, I'll make it to the cafe before they close at 7. I get out of report at 530 if it's a great day. I try to eat around 12 or 1...and I'll have diet pepsi with dinner and maybe one more around 3 or so. I try to drink more water lately...between 2-5 I try to get about 2 pitcher liners down....easier when I don't forget my Crystal Light. On the way home, one of my vices is a diet pepsi(which I NEED to cut out) from the gas station with a drink. I've been trying to flip over to a egg flatbread from Dunkin doughnuts with choc milk....or as I keep telling myself....bring some hard boiled eggs from home.

When I'm off(like today) I eat better. French toast for breakfast, a small burger lunch, and probably some chips/salsa or popcorn later tonight with a movie. Yum Yum!

Isn't it ridicuolous what we have to put up with? I personally can't count the number of times I've been offered pizza/chicken/etc from patients and their families...but I'm a bit of a "no thanks" person. I don't know how long it's been out, I don't normally share germs with you, and I'm not a big fan of green olives on pizza...plus I don't want it to get back to management I was "helping myself" to a patients pizza!

cmonkey

613 Posts

Specializes in student; help!.

peanut butter toast with homemade plum butter

jimmy john's sammy with coke and chips

pta potluck for dinner

but that's an unusual day.

cmonkey

613 Posts

Specializes in student; help!.
Funny someone brought up using the bathroom. There have been so many times I have gone almost an entire shift, then realize I really have to go. My "eyeballs are floating" as I have heard some say. If a patient had not voided for that long, we would be scanning that bladder and getting an order for an in and out cath.

How do we make it these long shifts on so little? As far as eating, I am not a big breakfast person, but I try to make myself eat a piece of fruit or a bagel, along with a Coke or Mountain Dew. Usually, no lunch, but another Coke. I try to get in at least some water during my shift, but we cannot have food or drink at the desk as well. Luckily, when I get home from work, my husband will have something good for supper ready for me.

True nursing retention is being able to work a 12-hour shift without peeing.

Specializes in NICU.

Breakfast:

half a blueberry bagel that nursing students brought in (thanks!!). I ate it while peaking around the corner at my patient who had bilateral mittens on. She was determined to get those off and pull out her NG. Ate a few more bites right before the intensivist decided to finally intubate my other patient...

It all went downhill from there.

Lunch: at 2:30 I had some left over vegetable soup.

Dinner: Nothing yet

Real healthy....

General E. Speaking, RN, RN

1 Article; 1,337 Posts

Specializes in floor to ICU.

Bad day Saturday. Really, really sick pt. Had 2 bites of a sandwich (that charge nurse bought for me:D) and a stick of gum.

Ayvah, RN

722 Posts

Specializes in Med Surg, Specialty.

Early in my nursing career I wondered why my mouth would always hurt after a full shift. Then I realized I was sucking on my tongue for liquid. :( Ever since then I made sure to stop at least twice during the shift to gulp down one of those small orange juices.

catlvr

239 Posts

Specializes in Geriatrics, Hospice, Palliative Care.

I work in LTC, and have noticed that *all* of the residents who had been nurses have leaky bladders...coincidence?

True nursing retention is being able to work a 12-hour shift without peeing.

Ty for the reply,noyesno.

Sounds like you eat very healthily,indeed.

However, read the LAST line of the post for the real message I was trying to say.

Specializes in Family Medicine.
Ty for the reply,noyesno.

Sounds like you eat very healthily,indeed.

However, read the LAST line of the post for the real message I was trying to say.

:( Totally ooooops on my part. I sound like a butthead. Sorry about that.

Today I had clinical, so all I had was easy mac. I'm sure when I'm working as a nurse I'll be gnawing on dry noodles with no cheese.

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