Getting a meal break

[kms6417]

How do other floors in hospitals ensure staff get their meal break? I work on a busy Mother Baby unit and don't want to hold anyone else's phone and watch their 4 couplets and mine too for someone to take their meal break. Meal time assignments seem impossible to make because admissions and discharges are constant on our floor. I also want to eat with my co-workers I enjoy being with-not someone I am assigned to eat with. Our Unit Practice Council is trying very hard to come up with a workable solution to getting an uninterrupted meal break. Any ideas out there?? Thanks!

[applesxoranges, BSN, RN]

We usually have someone watch another person's patient. They have "zone" buddies where 2 nurses are and the other nurse picks up the patient.