Time to 'fess up ladies and gents. Who here raids the patient fridge, and if so, what is your fav? Are you guilty of jello diversion? Or, is cookie addiction your weakness? Do you limit yourself to graham crackers and milk or do you go for the hard stuff?
This is an anonymous online forum, time to spill yer guts...
As for me, I used to be a weakling for jello. I like red jello, but my favorite is orange. I'm now in recovery from that addiction.
Now I'll have an occasional mini box of wheaties, and an occasional cookie if they aren't too soft. Graham crackers and milk make a quick snack when my blood sugar gets a little low from skipping a meal.
When I worked nights at my former job I was thinking of assembling a small recipe book from patient fridge items. One of my staples then was a microwave grilled cheese sandwich.
Ped's has all sorts of goodies so I just run down a few floors and snatch a chocolate milk or three. I don't know if I should feel guilty about this or not, but I also like to eat the doughnuts, chips, pretzels, cookies, and drink the little pops that come on "The Death Cart" we have for families that have someone dying. I ofcourse eat this after the patient has expired and the family has left the building...I'm the only one that does this, but heck chips are like 75cents a bag and they are going to throw all of them free ones away? No Way Jose.
Orange Kool-Aid and cheese curls. At the place I worked at before this one, they always had Trix yogurt, sandwiches left over from supper, sometimes ice cream or orange sherbert, and fresh fruit. I only once ever grabbed a 7-Up when I was tummy sick at work.
The place I work now I've yet to even look in the patient fridge, LOL.
You know what is an excellent juice blend? Half cranberry juice, half grape juice, with lots and lots of ice. Let it sit a few minutes and the ice will start to just dilute those two strong juices just the right amount. It's totally refreshing and rehydrating!!!
I can tell you when I did my clinical exam at Albany Med and had a nauseated patient who just wanted an ice cream or sherbert I was pretty PO'ed when told by her assigned nurse that the freezer ws ampty because the staff regularly ate all of the stuff.
Now, I am not above beyond making toast in night shift when there's no cafeteria. But gobbling up stuff tht the patients need is irresonsible and piggy.
I can tell you when I did my clinical exam at Albany Med and had a nauseated patient who just wanted an ice cream or sherbert I was pretty PO'ed when told by her assigned nurse that the freezer ws ampty because the staff regularly ate all of the stuff.
Now, I am not above beyond making toast in night shift when there's no cafeteria. But gobbling up stuff tht the patients need is irresonsible and piggy.
I'm surprised the thread made it 5 pages without a post...
Don't ya worry, Sue, there's always plenty left for the patients! No one is gobbling up everything anywhere I've worked...
A graham cracker here and there, and Italian ice here and there, some vanilla wafers from the pm snacks of the night before that will get thrown away every blue moon. Nothing major. But probably isn't "right" either. My bad. Oink. Oink.
I too would be ticked if staff regularly ate patients food and there wasn't anything left for the patients.
Who here raids the patient fridge, and if so, what is your fav? Are you guilty of jello diversion? Or, is cookie addiction your weakness? Do you limit yourself to graham crackers and milk or do you go for the hard stuff?
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Ped's has all sorts of goodies so I just run down a few floors and snatch a chocolate milk or three. I don't know if I should feel guilty about this or not, but I also like to eat the doughnuts, chips, pretzels, cookies, and drink the little pops that come on "The Death Cart" we have for families that have someone dying. I ofcourse eat this after the patient has expired and the family has left the building...I'm the only one that does this, but heck chips are like 75cents a bag and they are going to throw all of them free ones away? No Way Jose.