Lunch breaks/assignments

[canesdukegirl, BSN, RN]

All,

I need your brains...in a totally non I-am-a-zombie-and-I-am-starving kind of way!

How does your facility assign lunches and breaks? How do you track who has had lunch and who still needs to be relieved for lunch?

I work in a large L1 TC, and have at 60+ people to relieve for lunches and breaks.

Tell me what your experiences have been in both the staff or charge nurse role regarding lunch breaks. What was the most effective way to track lunches? How do you handle accountability for lunches and breaks? Do you have staff check off which lunches they have done? Do you have a log sheet? Do you use a magnet board?

Thanks for any ideas/input!

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Having just gone through this I can say initially was extremely hard. Many staff against the idea initially but a lot I think had to do with time management. Now most of the staff have gotten used to it and see it as a way for them to actually get their breaks. During the tweaks, trained staff lost out initially on getting all their breaks but now only minimal time has to be covered and for most we all including trained get their breaks. Each area has breaks allocated and safety was utmost with making sure there was still adequate staff available