Name your poison

Nurses General Nursing

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What unhealthy thing do you absolutely HAVE TO HAVE - to make it through, or right after your done with... clinicals (students), or your shift (RNs). My poison is a large coke (on ice)... and I am pretending not to have a problem with Nacho Doritos.:bugeyes:

Specializes in private duty/home health, med/surg.

Well duh, a diet Coke, preferably fountain D.C. from McDonald's, yanno that corporation that somehow has the monopoly on how to mix the perfect ratio of D.C. slurry with carbonated death juices that I can't resist. If only our cafeteria had the "recipe" for it I would be the supernurse, able to be charge + carry on a 12 patient load across two or three different floors. :D

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Starbucks. I swear the last two years of nursing school I spent more money on starbucks than I did on textbooks. Now I just need one in the AM at the begining of my shift. Afternoons I need a can of diet coke on a big glass of ice and a straw. well and usually some form of sugar

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Specializes in ICU, telemetry, LTAC.

Beginning of shift I'm coffee and yogurt. End of shift 2/3 of the time I'm making homemade smoothies. But on that morning after 3+ nights in a row, there is only one thing for me. Waffle house, hash browns with chili, cheese and a whole freakin' onion, with a large glass of milk.

It is a miracle I haven't set the house on fire with the gas... but hey I'm asleep by the time that happens.

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Specializes in student; help!.

It was coke (can or McD's) until Jabba the Baby decided she didn't like me having caffeine. Or dairy. Bad baby. Three kids and no rocket fuel. I'm dying, here.

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It was coke (can or McD's) until Jabba the Baby decided she didn't like me having caffeine. Or dairy. Bad baby. Three kids and no rocket fuel. I'm dying, here.

Too funny! (Jabba the Baby!!!!!)

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the solution to (and cause of if you have to be up in the morning) any day for stress is beer.

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the solution to (and cause of if you have to be up in the morning) any day for stress is beer.

Well, duh. That seems like a no brainer to me, too. After work, spring, summer and fall it's a Wahrsteiner with a big dash of lemonade. In the winter, the ETOH typically comes in the form of hot chocolate with a very generous serving of irish cream whiskey (or maybe I should say a serving of warm irish cream whiskey with some hot chocolate added in). It's just took cold for a before-bed beer here in the winter.

During my shift, however, I *have* to have 1-2 diet Dr. Peppers from the CAN, in a glass (I prefer a mason jar) with a lot of ice and a straw. In a pinch, I'll drink it from a styrofoam cup, or I'll get a 20 oz bottle from the vending machine if I'm out--but those nights just don't seem to flow like they should. I blame it then on the disruption in my universe caused by the variation in my Dr. Pepper consumption.

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Why does everyone here like DIET Dr. Pepper??? Why go for the fake stuff when you can go for the real thing? (I don't like the aspartame in diet soda and I rather just have the real sugar instead)

As long as I have my Dr. Pepper and chocolate (I have yet to meet a chocolate bar that I did not like), I'm a happy camper.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

PEPSI in a can, bottle, or out of the fountain. Gotta have my caffine.

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Mountain Dew. Preferably from a bottle. It is terrible when I go without. I've tried.

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cookie crisp and hot tamales - seperately, of coorifice.

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Specializes in Trauma/Burn ICU, Neuro ICU.

Hostess Chocolate Cupcakes......both of them!:nono:

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